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Building Facades Prefabrication. The Lesson of the Burgo Building

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We explore the idea that prefabrication is not a prison but rather a source of inspiration in architectonical creation. The Burgo Building is used as an example to explain that idea.

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    Construction Rationalization – set of organization actions, planning and verifications that contribute to an increase of the productivity of the construction sector as a hole or of each of its individual areas and tasks in particular.

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    Construction Mechanization – Substitution of manual labor for a machine as a way of increasing productivity and quality of construction.

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  1. Amorim Faria, José (1996) Divisórias leves prefabricadas – Concepção e análise da viabilidade de um sistema realizado com base em madeira e derivados – Tese de doutoramento – FEUP, Available for download on www.fe.up.pt – library – cathalogue – only in portuguese. http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~jmfaria/Publicacoes1_75/Dissertacoestesesesimilares/9/Divisorias%20Leves_9.pdf

  2. CdO – Cadernos d’Obra – nº 1 – January 2009 – FEUP Edições, Porto. https://paginas.fe.up.pt/~cdo/index.php?/projects/01/

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  1. Faculty of Engineer, Oporto University, Porto, Portugal

    José Manuel Amorim Faria

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  1. Civil Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Vitor Abrantes

  2. Civil Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Bárbara Rangel

  3. Civil Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    José Manuel Amorim Faria

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Faria, J.M.A. (2017). Building Facades Prefabrication. The Lesson of the Burgo Building. In: Abrantes, V., Rangel, B., Amorim Faria, J. (eds) The Pre-Fabrication of Building Facades. Building Research: Design, Construction and Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22695-8_2

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