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Case
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Reference no. OIT113
Subject category: Production and Operations Management
Authors: Michael Lepech (School of Engineering, Stanford University); Erica Plambeck (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University); Margot Sutherland (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)
Published by: Stanford Business School
Originally published in: 2018
Version: 5 May 2018
Length: 21 pages
Data source: Field research
Topics: Operations management; Construction; Energy efficiency; Sustainability; Housing; Life cycle analysis; Critical Path Method; Design; Process snalysis and design
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Abstract

This case describes the 2016 market entry in California of an innovative construction system for housing: BONE Structure, developed by the Canadian company of the same name. The choice of this structural system and construction method for a single family home in Palo Alto, California, provides the backdrop for a discussion about process innovations in manufactured housing and environmental sustainability. This case highlights BONE Structure's successful revamping of the supply chain for housing, a design for energy efficiency that has the potential to be even more so (if steel manufacturing could be powered by renewables), and finally, a building system that enables construction and renovation in difficult locations.

Geographical setting

Region:
Europe
Location:
California
Teaching note
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Reference no. OIT113TN
Subject category: Production and Operations Management
Authors: Michael Lepech (School of Engineering, Stanford University); Erica Plambeck (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University); Margot Sutherland (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)
Published by: Stanford Business School
Originally published in: 2018
Version: 31 October 2018
Length: 13 pages
Data source: Field research
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Reference no. OIT113TNSW
Subject category: Production and Operations Management
Authors: Michael Lepech (School of Engineering, Stanford University); Erica Plambeck (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University); Margot Sutherland (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)
Published by: Stanford Business School
Originally published in: 2019
Format: .zip
Data source: Field research
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Abstract

This case describes the 2016 market entry in California of an innovative construction system for housing: BONE Structure, developed by the Canadian company of the same name. The choice of this structural system and construction method for a single family home in Palo Alto, California, provides the backdrop for a discussion about process innovations in manufactured housing and environmental sustainability. This case highlights BONE Structure's successful revamping of the supply chain for housing, a design for energy efficiency that has the potential to be even more so (if steel manufacturing could be powered by renewables), and finally, a building system that enables construction and renovation in difficult locations.

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Geographical setting

Region:
Europe
Location:
California

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Teaching note
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Reference no. OIT113TN
Subject category: Production and Operations Management
Authors: Michael Lepech (School of Engineering, Stanford University); Erica Plambeck (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University); Margot Sutherland (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)
Published by: Stanford Business School
Originally published in: 2018
Version: 31 October 2018
Length: 13 pages
Data source: Field research
View full details
Teaching note supplement software
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Reference no. OIT113TNSW
Subject category: Production and Operations Management
Authors: Michael Lepech (School of Engineering, Stanford University); Erica Plambeck (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University); Margot Sutherland (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)
Published by: Stanford Business School
Originally published in: 2019
Format: .zip
Data source: Field research
View full details