Industriellt träbyggande i samverkan en studie av det strategiska nätverket Bygg i Trä
Sammanfattning: The Swedish construction industry is characterised by a too low persistent housing production at a too high cost level. Forces are raised to increase the production and lowering the costs without repeating the experiences of the 1960s. Thus, the construction market in Sweden faces a challenge in building more apartments at a lower price in buildings that are flexible in design and fit into surroundings. The wood manufacturing industry has found that there is a possibility to meet the demands of the market. In the report More Wood in Construction - Foundations for a National Strategy (Ds 2004:1), there has been stated that there is a potential in wood construction of multi storey buildings. The research in wood construction has mainly been done in the field of technology. In the report there is an interest in new business concepts; one of these concepts is strategic networks. In this thesis a case of cooperation in purpose to create an industrialized wood construction system is studied. The cooperation process has been studied through participating observation, interviews and documents. Important events, phenomena, patterns and factors in the creation process are described and analysed. The purpose of the study is to contribute to the knowledge of how a strategic network becomes the model for the introduction of a wood construction system that is cost effective, industrialized, flexible, functional and aesthetic. The study shows that the supporter, an external initiator and financier, play a significant role in the development of the strategic network. Another result is that there is difficult to separate the individual from the company in a cooperation process. A third result is that the company must have a certain degree of competence so it can be a contributor to the construction system. A fourth result is that to be able to develop industrialized wood construction systems there is a need to grasp both the entire construction process and the entire construction system. The empirical results indicate that thecooperation process are created and developed in an early phase of a visionary shape, and thereafter develops into a phase of activities, and finally is introduced on to the market. The creation and development process of the strategic network can be parted into ‘dimensions' and ‘levels'. The dimensions can be parted into primary, substantial and conduct preconditions. In these dimensions the significant factors in the cooperation process are discussed in a supporter level, an implementation level, and a process level. For future cooperation projects in the wood construction area the following general recommendations are stated; (1) define the problem or the possibility, (2) analyse the problem or the possibility in profound terms (with focus on structure and strategy), (3) create an operational work organisation with an authoritative group and sub groups, consider early in the process, which sub processes are governing other sub processes, (4) engage an external chairman and an external project manager, (5) create and maintain good relations with supporters early in the process, (6) work for implementation early in the creation process.
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