The Regional Industrial Symbiosis Model for Industrialized Construction Ecosystem

Abstract

Industrialized construction, which utilizes principles associated with factory production, can considerably improve productivity, quality, and service life of building while reduce cost, energy consumption and environmental impact. China government has committed sustainable development and promoted industrialized construction through legislative acts. The number of industrialized public houses in China has rapidly grown to over 3 million per year. However, the ecosystem of industrialized construction of China is still in the infant stage: hesitating stakeholders, sporadic manufacturing, and incomplete industry chain. The aim of this paper is thus to achieve an in-depth understanding of the whole ecosystem of industrialized construction in China. There are four research objectives of this paper: (1) to analyze the symbiotic mechanisms of it based on industrial ecology theory; (2) to build the Regional Industrial Symbiosis (RIS) model of industrialized construction ecosystem based on synergetics theory; (3) to explore the evolutionary trajectories based on the RIS model by simulating the evolutionary trajectory of symbiotic units and analyzing the stable symbiotic point. This paper presented the symbiotic mechanism and four relationships between the populations of industrialized construction ecosystem. It could contribute to the prediction of the evolutionary trajectory of industrialized construction and achieve the policy formulation and implementation.