• Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.6-10
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• 2023

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.33-41
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• 2017

A modular specification is a contract document that specifies the requirements of production, transformation and installation in a modular construction. A problem of the currently used specification is that it does not guarantee the level of performance required by the modular construction and fails to accommodate unique characteristics of each construction because it widely uses the standard specification as it is. This study proposes a specification that reflects the unique feature of modular construction in order to improve the quality of modular construction. Research focuses on the leakage in waterproof and mechanical equipment because it is the area with the highest rate of defects. This study suggests ways to improve the modular specification as follows: 1)Descriptive specifying (following MasterFormat) 2)Propose leakage verification method and test clause 3) Reflect characteristic of modular construction. Proposed modifications to modular specification are reviewed by experts for validation and their opinion verifies suggested improvements as a way to secure the quality of modular construction and to promise characteristics of the modular specification. This improvement will be used for reference when writing construction project specification, which can be an important contract document, so that it could lower occurrence rate of the modular defects.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.19-26
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• 2013

The purpose of this research is to provide basic data for the promotion strategy to activate modular construction system as residential facilities, through a study on the architectural planning, institutions and policies and research on connection details, for the use as residential facilities of the modular construction that is not actively supplied for the general residential facilities. As a result, I suggest sample model plan of domestic and foreign case analysis and characteristic of modular construction and practical application of modular construction for Residential Facilities. Owing to many advantages including short construction period structural stability and economic benefits, modular construction is expected to play a role as residential alternative of socially controversial affordable housing and weekend homes, and potential housing shortage after reunification; and to contribute to the development of design automation and industrialized constructions. Though Korea is still lacking development of the system that meets the domestic context, if supported by ongoing researches on the development of construction methods, materials and details, the settlement of appropriate modular residential facilities to suit the national situation will serve a possible alternative solution for many housing and environmental problems.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.89-99
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• 2010

Military Barracks and Bachelor Officer's Quarters are public buildings representing architectural characteristics with repeating the same room modules. These buildings require easy dismantling and reusing for the next generation' military re-organization. For these reasons, since 2005, the modular construction has been applied to military buildings. The most important factors required for modular military buildings are standardization, lowcost construction and reusable construction method. However, conventional modular building system have not been matched with these requirements. This study suggests a new modular system for Bachelor Officer's Quarters using Six-sigma design tool. To reflect the voices of customers, market study and surveys were carried out. Through the QFD, the voices of customers were converted into quality characteristics of building system for BOQ. The various design concepts meeting customer's requirement were derived by the QFD and Pugh matrix methodology. The proposed modular building system shows 80% increased factory production rate and 62% decreased weight of steel frame as compared with the conventional modular building system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.595-605
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• 2023

With the escalating prevalence of modular construction projects, there is a concurrent surge in scholarly and industrial intrigue in this domain, leading to a broadened spectrum of its applications. Modular construction, inherently facilitated by controlled factory settings, boasts the capability to consistently deliver edifices of superior quality. To optimize this advantage, the judicious integration of quality assurance methodologies during the site-specific phases of lifting and assembly is non-negotiable. This research embarked on a survey directed at project stakeholders, aiming to gauge the perceived significance and efficaciousness of prevailing quality preservation and oversight protocols during the aforementioned site stages, subsequently employing the Importance-Performance Analysis(IPA) for data interpretation. The findings elucidated that, while a majority of quality assurance procedures were adeptly executed, perceptual disparities existed among stakeholders regarding certain aspects, prompting recommendations for enhancement. This investigative endeavor lays a foundation, aiding future studies in amplifying the quality assurance cognizance among professionals during modular construction's site-assembly phase.

• Korean Architects
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• s.564
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• pp.98-103
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• 2016

지난 회에서는 고층 주거 빌딩의 외피를 높이라는 주요 변수 및 이 변수의 함수를 통해 발생하는 파생적인 변수들을 통해 파라메트릭 모델로 구성해 나가는 과정을 살펴보았습니다. 이번 회에도 지난회와 같은 연장선상에서 디자인에 영향을 미치는 하나의 변수를 설정하고 이 변수를 통해 전체적인 디자인을 구성해 나가는 과정에 대하여 살펴볼까 합니다. 지난 회의 예와는 조금 다르게 이번 회의 예는 "변수화 된 모듈러"라는 비교적 친근한 컨셉에 더 가깝다고 할 수 있습니다. 저번 회의 고층 주거의 스킨은 다수의 레이어로 구성이 되었었고 각 레이어들이 해당 레이어 전역에 걸쳐 변수와 상관관계를 가지게 되며 이러한 상관관계가 각 레이어들별로 서로 다르게 정의 되므로 conceptual level에서의 변수와 물리적 형태의 상관관계가 눈에 쉽게 보이는 물리적인 모듈러로 구현된다기 보다는 그러한 conceptual level에서의 관계가 물리적 모듈러의 생성단계를 뛰어넘으며 결과적으로 눈에 보이는 모듈러의 생성을 하지 않았습니다. 이에 더해 개별의 레이어의 적층으로 인해 변수가 어떻게 디자인에 영향을 주는지 직관적으로 이해하기 힘들었을 수도 있을 것 같습니다. 그에 반해 이번 회에서 살펴볼 예는 파라메트릭 디자인이라고 사람들이 흔히 이야기 할 때의 전형에 조금 더 가깝다고 볼 수 있을 것 같습니다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.15-22
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• 2019

The use of modular buildings is increasing because of various advantages of modular buildings. But there are limits to apply modular buildings to medium-rise buildings because the building law provides only the specification criteria of the modular building with respect to the 1 hour fire resistance performance. This study was conducted to investigate 2 hours fire resistance performance of load bearing walls with steel studs in modular buildings by KS F 2257-1 and KS F 2257-4. After full scale tests, load bearing walls ensuring two hours fire resistance performance consist of at least 2 layers of fire resistance plaster boards of 19mm thickness or 3 layer of fire resistance plaster boards of thickness.

• Land and Housing Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.115-122
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• 2023

Modular construction is popular as a smart building system because it can shorten the construction period. This study proposed a precast concrete (PC) core system that can further shorten modular construction time. The system was developed and its structural performance was verified through computational analysis. The proposed PC core system is a complete PC construction method using dry bonding. The results of the study indicated that the proposed PC core system has structural stability and performance suitable for modular housing.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.41-44
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• 2009

기존의 농촌주택에 대한 연구에서도 농촌주택의 기능이 도시주택과는 달리 주거생활과 농업 생산 활동이 유기적으로 이루어지도록 계획되어져야 함에도 불구하고 고려되지 않은 점이 있다. 현대에 와서는 농촌은 젊은층의 이농에 따른 농촌 인구의 고령화와 기계화 그리고 경작 면적에 있어서는 대규모화가 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 거주 인구의 성격 변화에 따라 농촌 주택도 그 형태와 기능의 변화가 요구되는데 본 연구에서는 이러한 요구를 충족시킬 방안의 하나로 모듈러 건축의 적용을 살펴보았다. 18세기 이후 철의 본격적인 사용과 더불어 발달한 공업화는 건축에 있어서도 큰 영향을 끼쳤다. 생산의 효율성에 입각한 건축의 공업화는 현재까지 다양한 시도가 잇었는데, 본 연구는 이러한 시도를 정리하고 현재 우리 농촌에 요구되는 모듈러 건축의 특성과 그 적용 방안에 대해 고찰하고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.31-39
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• 2021

The modular construction method is an off-site construction method using built-in structures from the manufacturing facilities. Modular construction is commonly applied to buildings which have relatively smaller and simpler structures than other types of buildings. Although modular building has emerged in the domestic construction industry as an alternative building strategy, previous researches on the environmental characteristics of modular building has not been comprehensively studied. Thus, this study empirically analyzed the insulation performance of thermal bridge and condensation parts of the modular buildings by using IR image analysis, Air-Surface Temperature Ratio method, and temperature difference ratio. The insulation performance analysis was conducted by comparing a modular building and a RC building in Seoul. The results shows that there was no significant difference between insulation performances of RC building and modular building. Furthermore