This book, “Open Building Manufacturing: Key Technologies, Applications, and Industrial
Cases” is the second book launched by the ManuBuild project consortium to follow-up its first
book entitled, “Open Building Manufacturing: Core Concepts and Industrial Requirements”. The
aim of this book, “Open Building Manufacturing: Key Technologies, Applications, and
Industrial Cases” is to showcase some of the recent developments in the area of open building
manufacturing.
The portfolio of chapters in this book present new ways of industrialised building design, valueoriented
industrial building concepts, future-proof infrastructure design, learning environments,
and a set of industrial cases studies covering: innovation and new construction practices; flexible
and innovative manufacturing; industrial management approaches for improving building service
works; and industrialised low-cost housing.