Conceptual Design of Automatic Footing Device for Modular Housing Construction

Efforts to improve building construction speed have led to a new construction type, called the modular housing. Designs and construction technologies for the modular house have been actively studied in several countries including Japan, and the technologies have also spread. A relative newcomer to this field, Korea intends to develop related technologies, which are currently lagging behind the level of the technologies in developed countries, through the One-day Housing Project. The information technologies to be developed over the next 5 years will be utilized to automate modular house design, to reduce the construction period, and to develop new materials suitable for larger structures.

As part of the development of one-day housing technologies, this research aims to present a conceptual design for an automatic footing device for one-day housing, and develop a prefabricated method for building a multi-family house. Through the One-day Housing Project, the feasibility of the prefabricated method presented in this research and the automatic footing device will be verified through research and fabrication in the future. It is expected that the automatic footing device and prefabricated technologies shown in the study will induce the expansion of the prefabricated method for small- and medium-sized structures, and contribute to improved productivity on construction sites and a more consistent level of quality.