ABSTRACT

The notion of system structure and the system structure model, represent the author's proposal for an analytical structure that can, help clarify the potential of industrialised construction as positively enabling. A multidimensional understanding of integrated complexity, integration taxonomy, has been introduced as a way to nuance what deliveries and in particular integrated product deliveries as an emerging entity in architectural construction are, and how they can contribute to handling complexity in architectural construction through different preparation, standardisation and service levels. The derived hypothesis for the exploration of classification systems in construction was: The growing complexity of construction both as processes and as objects has produced a variety of classification systems that either split up or transcend the traditional crafts. General systems theory introduces isomorphism as a way of conceptualising structural or organisational similarity between systems or coherent wholes with potentially widely different specific content. In architectural construction this can be translated into equal system structures across different projects.