ABSTRACT
The building industry, in Sweden and interna-
tionally, has not shown the same development in
productivity and industrialization as the manufac-
turing industry and the sector has been criticized
for quality failures and high costs (ECTP 2005,
Egan 1998). An industrialization of the industry
has been pointed at as a measure of meeting these
problems (Byggkommissionen 2002). Different
strategies have been developed in order to make
the industry more efficient (Lessing 2006). Off-site
manufacturing and systems building has a long
tradition (Gann 1996), while Strategic partnering
(Miles 1996), Lean construction (Berthelsen 2004),
and BIM (Eastman et al. 2008) are recent develop-
ments with this purpose.
