Haga, Heitor Cesar Riogi (2008) Production and sales sectors of materials in the house construction production chain: Diagnosis for the development of technological foresight studies. PhD thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract
The Brazilian construction sector has recently been showing intense growth, and its dynamism is due to institutional changes and evolution in the macroeconomic scenario. The increasing volume of new constructions has put pressure on the construction materials sectors and some consequences of this situation have already been noticed, such as local supply problems and variation in the price of some materials. This explorative research is inserted in this scenario and aims to make a diagnosis of the production and sales sectors of materials in the house construction production chain, using the concept of technological foresight. The method is based on bibliographical and descriptive researches, also using field data collection to gather up-to-date information. The conceptual model proposed by Castro & Lima (2001) of technological foresight for production chain analysis was adopted. The main results were the modeling, performance analysis, identification of critical factors, their respective driving and restrictive forces and, finally, the determination of bottlenecks in the sector. The study shows that all segments of the construction sector are focusing their efforts to obtain production capacity efficiency, so as to guarantee the supply of their products. It can be concluded that the adopted method shows strong potential to be used to analyze production chains in the construction materials industry.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Abiko, Alex Kenya |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building construction; construction materials; diagnostic (study); foresight studies; technology |
| Index terms: | construction sector, house construction, variation, evolution, building construction, guarantee, modelling, construction material, performance analysis, critical factor, institutional change, efficiency |
| Subjects: | building materials, data analysis and analytics, risk assessment, sociology, industry analysis, contract structure, performance management, contractual condition, environmental science, analytical methods, construction type, building construction |
| Topics: | Quality Management, Engineering Principles, Procurement, Sustainability, Risk Management, Contract Administration, Research Practice, Business Strategy, Construction Technology |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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