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China is experiencing rapid urbanization, which has, and will continue, to yield strong demand for buildings, exerting substantial resource and environmental pressures on the country. Prefabricated overall correlation, parallel design, modular combination, and generalization is the best way to transform the construction industry from a traditional sector to an industrial sector which is of great importance to the sustainability of the whole society. This article firstly analyzes the history of the development of prefabricated buildings in China and then focuses on the different stages of the development of prefabricated buildings in developed countries. With the historical and global perspective, some problems and suggestions for prefabricated buildings in China to achieve sustainability are discussed in the end.
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Junjun, Z., Haining, W., Hong, Z. (2021). Reflections on the Development of Prefabricated Buildings in China from a Historical and Global Perspective. In: Alalouch, C., Piselli, C., Cappa, F. (eds) Towards Implementation of Sustainability Concepts in Developing Countries. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74349-9_15
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