Construction & Field
What is Prefabrication & DfMA?
Prefabrication moves construction work from the site to a factory — wall panels, bathroom pods, MEP racks — while DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) is the design discipline that makes prefab possible: designing components to be manufactured efficiently and assembled quickly on site.
In practice
The hard part is upstream: designs must commit to manufacturable systems early. Productization platforms encode manufacturers' rules so their systems configure themselves into BIM models, bridging design intent and factory constraints.
Tools for Prefabrication & DfMA
KOPE
Applies manufacturers' product logic to building models so offsite systems configure themselves into projects.
Higharc
Cloud homebuilding platform: generative home design, permit-ready drawings, takeoffs, and sales tools all driven from one live model.
Monumental
Compact robots that lay bricks on site, tackling the masonry labor shortage with machine vision and precise placement.
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