A review of circular industrialised construction for sustainable and affordable housing: Towards a process-driven framework

IF 12 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2025.106837

Annette Davis , Núria Martí Audí , Daniel M. Hall

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Circular Industrialised Housing, underpinned by the systematic design of building components for future disassembly and reuse, offers valuable opportunities to deliver sustainable and affordable homes at scale. However, research interlinking these approaches remains thin, and critical socio-economic dimensions are often overlooked. This paper addresses these gaps through a systematic review of 65 publications spanning Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. Six key factors inductively emerged: cultural, governance, financial, site and logistics, construction system, and building information. Building on these findings, a four-step circular process framework is proposed—(re)planning, (re)designing, (re)manufacturing, and (dis)assembly—capturing the full housing lifecycle. Fifteen themes and 36 sub-themes were identified. Mapping barriers and enablers reveals a disproportionate emphasis on the (re)designing process (55 %), with significantly less attention to (re)manufacturing (20 %), (re)planning (13 %), and (dis)assembly (12 %). The strongest relationship identified was between the construction system and (re)designing, with sub-theme ‘theoretical design’ dominating the literature. Most literature gaps pertained to governance, particularly in relation to (dis)assembly. Few studies investigated social and affordable housing. Only six studies included interviews or surveys with practitioners. Overall, this review contributes a holistic perspective on Circular Industrialised Housing, offering a structured, process-driven lens to inform interdisciplinary research, policy design, and industry adoption. By illuminating how and where key factors intersect across the housing lifecycle, the framework serves as a roadmap for systematically advancing the field towards resource-efficient, regenerative and equitable housing outcomes. Future research can apply the framework to specific case studies to develop and refine its practical relevance.

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可持续和经济适用房的循环工业化建筑回顾：走向过程驱动的框架

圆形工业化住宅以建筑组件的系统设计为基础，为未来的拆卸和再利用提供了宝贵的机会，为大规模提供可持续和负担得起的住房。然而，将这些方法联系起来的研究仍然很少，关键的社会经济层面往往被忽视。本文通过对横跨欧洲、亚洲、美洲、非洲和大洋洲的65份出版物的系统回顾来解决这些差距。归纳出六个关键因素：文化、治理、金融、场地与物流、建设制度、建筑信息化。在这些发现的基础上，提出了一个四步循环过程框架-（重新）规划，（重新）设计，（重新）制造和（拆卸）组装-捕获整个房屋生命周期。确定了15个主题和36个分主题。对障碍和促成因素的映射揭示了对（再）设计过程的不成比例的强调（55%），对（再）制造（20%）、（再）规划（13%）和（拆卸）组装（12%）的关注明显较少。确定的最强关系是建筑系统和（重新）设计之间的关系，子主题“理论设计”主导了文献。大多数文献空白与治理有关，特别是与（非）组装有关。很少有研究调查社会住房和经济适用房。只有6项研究包括对从业人员的访谈或调查。总体而言，本综述为循环工业化住宅提供了一个整体视角，提供了一个结构化的、过程驱动的视角，为跨学科研究、政策设计和行业采用提供信息。通过阐明关键因素在住房生命周期中的交叉方式和位置，该框架可以作为一个路线图，系统地推动该领域朝着资源高效、可再生和公平的住房结果发展。未来的研究可以将该框架应用于具体的案例研究，以发展和完善其实际意义。

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Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;