Other Research Efforts

Developing a Housing Research Agenda for the U.S.

In February 2004 the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored a workshop to define a national housing research agenda. The three-day workshop was hosted by the University of Central Florida and the HCL research team in Orlando. Workshop participants included 39 faculty members representing 26 universities, a researcher from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center, and a researcher from State Farm Insurance Companies. Representatives from NSF and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) also attended. Most faculty participants were invited as representatives of their NSF-Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) research teams. These participants were supplemented with a limited number of additional faculty/researchers from the universities represented in National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC). The workshop was organized into five topical areas: 1) construction management and production, 2) structural design and materials, 3) building enclosures, energy and indoor air quality (IAQ), 4) housing technology, community and the economy, and 5) systems interactions and “whole house” approach. Findings are published in the following reference.

Technical Reports and Papers:
Syal, M., M. Hastak, M. Mullens, S. Cramer, E. Burnett, T. Koebel, M. O’Brien, and C. Martin, “Housing Reseach Agenda for NSF-PATH”, ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering, 11(1)1-7, March, 2005.

Mullens, M. and M. Hastak, “Defining a National Housing Research Agenda: Construction Management and Production” Proceedings of the NSF Housing Research Agenda Workshop, Feb. 12-14, 2004, Orlando, FL. Eds. Syal, M., Mullens, M. and Hasta, M. Vol 2.

Mullens, M. “Production flow and shop floor control: Structuring the modular factory for custom homebuilding” Proceedings of the NSF Housing Research Agenda Workshop, Feb. 12-14, 2004, Orlando, FL. Eds. Syal, M., Mullens, M. and Hasta, M. Vol 2.

Proceedings of the NSF Housing Research Agenda Workshop, Feb. 12-14, 2004, Orlando, FL. Eds. Syal, M., Mullens, M. and Hastak, M.

 

Developing a U.S.-India Joint Housing Research Agenda

UCF researchers assisted in planning and facilitating The U.S. - India Joint Research Agenda Development Symposium on Urban Housing & Supporting Infrastructure on October 20-22, 2005 in New Delhi, India.

Technical Report and Papers:
U.S. - India Joint Research Agenda Development Symposium on Urban Housing & Supporting Infrastructure: Recommendations, Focus Area Reports and Position Papers. Construction Management Program, Michigan State University, MI.

Syal, M., M. Hastak, M. Mullens, and A. Sweaney, “U.S.-India Collaborative Research Directions in Urban Housing and Supporting Infrastructure”, accepted and scheduled for publication in ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering, December 2006.

Mullens, M. “Urban Housing and Supporting Infrastructure: Summary and Recommendations,” Proceedings of the U.S – India Symposium on Urban Housing and Supporting Infrastructure, National Science Foundation, U.S.A and Ministry of Science and Technology, India, Oct. 20-22, 2005, New Delhi, Construction Management Program, Michigan State University, MI.

Mullens, M. “Focus Area Two:  Methods/Materials/Construction Management Techniques,” Proceedings of the U.S – India Symposium on Urban Housing and Supporting Infrastructure, National Science Foundation, U.S.A and Ministry of Science and Technology, India, Oct. 20-22, 2005, New Delhi, Construction Management Program, Michigan State University, MI.

Mullens, M. “An Industrialized Solution for U.S. Urban Housing,” Proceedings of the U.S – India Symposium on Urban Housing and Supporting Infrastructure, National Science Foundation, U.S.A and Ministry of Science and Technology, India, Oct. 20-22, 2005, New Delhi, Construction Management Program, Michigan State University, MI.

 

International Summit for Home Manufacturing

Assisted in planning and executing the international summit, Innovation in Home Manufacturing—Common Ground, providing a forum for sharing basic information about factory building practices, finding topics of mutual interest and setting the agenda for the future conference. Each delegation delivered a brief presentation describing their country’s factory building practices and suggesting topics for the conference. The summit also provided a springboard for growing the international component of the PATH program by seeding cooperative research with these agencies and organizations

Technical Report and Papers:
Manufactured Housing Research Alliance, International Conference on Factory Built Housing: Innovation in Home Manufacturing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington, D.C., November 2005. [download report]