Implementation Opinions of Guangdong Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Other Departments on Accelerating the Development of New Building Industrialization
Release date: 2022-09-20 | Views: 2563
The competent departments responsible for housing and urban-rural construction, development and reform, education, science and technology, industry and information technology, public security, finance, human resources and social security, natural resources, transportation, and market supervision at or above the local city level, along with the tax bureaus of the State Administration of Taxation in Guangzhou, local cities, and the Hengqin Guangdong Australia Deep Cooperation Zone, the central branches of the People’s Bank of China in Guangdong Province, and the branches of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, hereby issue the following implementation opinions.
These opinions aim to implement the requirements outlined in key documents such as the Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Vigorously Developing Prefabricated Buildings (Guobanfa [2016] No. 71), the Several Opinions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Other Departments on Accelerating the Development of New Building Industrialization (Jianbiaogu [2020] No. 8), the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Coordinated Development of Intelligent Construction and Building Industrialization (Jianshi [2020] No. 60), and the Implementation Opinions of the General Office of the People’s Government of Guangdong Province on Vigorously Developing Prefabricated Buildings (Yuefuban [2017] No. 28). The goal is to accelerate new building industrialization throughout the province.
1. Work Objectives
Focusing on prefabricated buildings, this initiative emphasizes systematic integrated design across the entire project lifecycle, green and lean production and construction methods, and leverages next-generation digital information technology. It seeks to integrate the entire industry chain, value chain, and innovation chain to achieve high efficiency, superior quality, reduced consumption, and lower emissions in construction projects.
By the end of 2022, new building industrialization will be carried out in an orderly manner. Standards will be developed for the design and selection of prefabricated concrete structure residential buildings, guidelines for main component dimensions, and evaluation criteria for new building industrialization projects. Supporting policies tailored to different cities will be formulated, and the certification of green building materials products will be promoted. Pilot projects supported by government procurement for the promotion and application of green building materials will be established. Prefabricated decoration pilot work will also begin.
By the end of 2023, progress will continue steadily with the establishment of standardized component libraries and the creation of prefabricated construction industry bases. The upstream and downstream industrial chains adapted to new building industrialization will improve. Standardized component production and lean construction will be solidly promoted, while prefabricated decoration and BIM-based integrated design will gain traction. Information technology applications will be actively integrated into new building industrialization.
By the end of 2024, development will accelerate with breakthroughs in the evaluation and certification systems for professionals, as well as quality and safety supervision mechanisms. Supporting policies and technical standards will be basically established, expanding the scope of integrated design, lean construction, BIM-based design, prefabricated decoration, and information technology applications. Certification of green building materials and government procurement support will be comprehensively implemented, and more new building industrialization projects will be completed.
By the end of 2025, new building industrialization will be fully promoted. BIM-based integrated design and standardized component production will steadily improve, and lean construction will be fully implemented. Projects will widely apply green building materials and prefabricated decoration, with extensive use of information technology throughout the construction process. The scale of new building industrialization will continue to expand, with prefabricated buildings accounting for over 30% of newly built construction area in the province. Key promotion areas will reach over 35%, active promotion over 30%, and encouraged promotion over 20%.
By 2030, the level of systematic integrated design, standardized production of parts and components, and lean production and construction throughout the project lifecycle will be significantly enhanced. The entire industry, value, and innovation chains will be fully integrated, forming a new construction industrialization system with distinctive Guangdong characteristics. The new industrialization of construction will shift from government demonstration to market-led development. High-efficiency, high-quality, low-consumption, and low-emission construction industrialization will be basically achieved, with prefabricated buildings accounting for more than 50% of newly built construction area.
2. Key Tasks
(1) Strengthen Systematic Integrated Design
1. Enhance collaboration across the entire industry chain. Implement a new architectural industrialization project responsibility system where architects coordinate building plans and construction drawings, guiding component production and on-site construction. Coordinate planning, design, production, transportation, construction, installation, and operation management to promote resource sharing, system integration, and coordinated upstream and downstream development. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
2. Promote standardized design. Improve design selection criteria and encourage integrated multi-disciplinary design covering architecture, structure, equipment pipelines, and decoration to enhance building integrity. Increase the use of standardized components in government-funded projects and guide design units to implement standardized plans, components, parts, and interfaces. Encourage standard atlas designs for affordable housing, schools, hospitals, and factories to elevate standardized design levels. Strengthen technical demonstrations of design schemes and foster a city style with Guangdong characteristics through new materials, processes, and technological innovation. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Development and Reform Commission)
(2) Optimize Production of Components and Parts
3. Promote standardized production of components and parts. Develop size guides for major prefabricated components and an integrated modular building product and component standard atlas. Establish a standardized component library and promote component standardization. Encourage key enterprises to produce structural steel, prefabricated concrete components, and building parts such as integrated bathrooms, kitchens, doors, and windows in factories. Gradually expand factory production to complex components, fulfilling standardized design requirements and forming a standardized, serialized supply system. Promote certification of components, explore mold sharing to reduce costs. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Market Supervision Bureau)
4. Optimize industrial base layout. Plan and construct new industrial parks for construction industrialization, supporting intensive development of sand mechanisms, ready-mix concrete, construction waste recycling, and prefabricated component production. Support industry associations in evaluating component production enterprises and regularly report supply-demand status to balance capacity. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Department of Industry and Information Technology, and Department of Natural Resources)
5. Vigorously develop and apply green building materials. Launch pilot certification projects and government procurement support for green building materials. Promote their adoption in new construction industrialization projects and gradually increase green material usage in urban construction. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Department of Industry and Information Technology, Department of Finance, and Market Supervision Bureau)
(3) Promote Lean Construction
6. Actively promote prefabricated construction methods. Apply prefabricated concrete structures in commercial residential and affordable housing projects. Promote prefabricated balconies, integrated bathrooms, kitchens, and other components. Increase use of high-performance concrete, high-strength steel bars, energy dissipation, shock absorption, and prestressing technologies. Use steel structures for public buildings like hospitals and schools, promote steel structure residences and prefabricated farmhouses, and support modular buildings such as box houses. Apply new industrialization technologies in municipal bridges, rail transit, and water projects. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
7. Optimize construction organization and processes. Encourage intensive management through engineering general contracting and whole process consulting. Promote deep integration of design, production, and construction. Advance industrial construction methods such as no plastering and no demoulding, coordinate building decoration with main structure and mechanical-electrical equipment, and improve fine on-site management. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Development and Reform Commission)
8. Promote full decoration and prefabricated decoration. Encourage full decoration for prefabricated buildings and star-rated green building projects with customizable options. Pilot prefabricated decoration projects, promote pipeline separation and integrated decoration technologies, and improve quality while reducing operation and maintenance costs. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(4) Strengthen Quality and Safety Management
9. Enhance construction quality and safety management. Develop quality management guidelines for construction and installation in new building industrialization projects. Strengthen technical training for construction managers and frontline workers on quality and safety. Focus on controlling quality and safety in critical stages such as prefabricated component delivery, installation, node connection grouting, sealing, and waterproofing. Improve overall construction quality and safety performance. Train quality and safety supervisors to meet new industrialization requirements. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
10. Explore engineering insurance systems. Implement safety production liability insurance in construction according to law to help enterprises manage risks, prevent accidents, and ensure project quality through risk prevention and insurance rate adjustment mechanisms. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Guangdong Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, and Shenzhen Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau)
(5) Accelerate Integration and Development of Information Technology
11. Promote Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology. Accelerate digital integration centered on BIM throughout the project lifecycle. Promote forward BIM design to ensure consistency between drawings and models, facilitate effective information transfer, and enable full professional information integration and design collaboration. Explore establishing a unified provincial BIM project management platform to support design review, quality and safety supervision, and project acceptance. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Department of Natural Resources)
12. Develop intelligent construction technology. Support component manufacturers in adopting computer-aided processing and production management systems. Integrate digital design with production systems through IT. Promote use of robots and intelligent machinery for hazardous, complex, dirty, and heavy construction tasks to enhance automation. Encourage industrial enterprises to establish information systems for efficient upstream and downstream chain management, build an Internet platform for construction, and realize full connectivity across all elements and value chains. Promote smart home, office, and building automation technologies to improve convenience and comfort. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Department of Industry and Information Technology)
13. Accelerate application of big data and IoT technologies. Promote big data in project management, bidding, and credit systems. Apply sensor networks, low-power wide area networks, 5G, edge computing, RFID, and QR code technologies for construction safety monitoring, energy conservation, emission reduction, and intelligent construction. Enhance information regulation capabilities. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(6) Strengthen Cultivation of Industrial Talents
14. Train skilled industrial workers. Support enterprises in establishing training bases with industry associations, universities, and vocational colleges. Enhance vocational skills training and facilitate migrant workers’ transition to skilled industry workers. Improve skill evaluation systems aligned with new construction industrialization development, linking skills assessments with salary incentives. Support cities in vocational skill certification for industrial workers and equip workers with certification for new construction industrialization projects and prefabricated building bases. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Department of Human Resources and Social Security)
15. Strengthen specialized talent team development. Regularly update continuing education materials to help industry practitioners improve knowledge, innovation ability, professional level, and overall quality. Incorporate prefabricated building and BIM majors into construction professional title evaluations to open career development paths. Support enterprises in attracting high-level talents and encourage universities and vocational colleges to offer related courses and majors to cultivate talent reserves. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Department of Education, and Department of Human Resources and Social Security)
(7) Strengthen Technological Support
16. Build innovation platforms. Establish an expert committee for new construction industrialization development and set up innovation bases such as technology innovation centers and key laboratories. Encourage enterprises, universities, and research institutes to form technology innovation alliances and industry associations to establish branch offices dedicated to new construction industrialization. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Department of Science and Technology)
17. Support R&D of key technologies. Promote research and application of core technologies for new building industrialization. Develop production and construction equipment adapted to new industrialization needs, improve processes like component lifting, transport, stacking, and connection. Advance intelligent construction technologies such as building robots and project inspection technologies. Research integrated applications of technologies including lightweight concrete components, high-performance concrete, high-strength steel bars, and BIM throughout the lifecycle. Promote fire prevention and anti-corrosion technologies for steel structures, as well as breakthroughs in enclosure systems, material properties, and connection processes. Formulate universal technical systems suitable for Lingnan construction characteristics. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Department of Science and Technology)
18. Facilitate transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Establish a database of scientific and technological achievements related to new construction industrialization. Support key technology applications in provincial science and technology projects and recommend award applications such as the Huaxia Science and Technology Award, National and Provincial Patent Awards, and Science and Technology Progress Awards. Conduct demonstrations of key core technologies and encourage leading enterprises to apply for national construction industry scientific and technological achievement evaluation and promotion projects. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Department of Science and Technology)
(8) Improve Supporting Standards
19. Enhance standard systems. Develop technical index systems and evaluation guidelines for new construction industrialization projects. Support industry associations and enterprises in formulating related standards and atlases. Encourage mature technologies to apply as local standards and promote transformation of key research results into standard specifications. Develop pricing methods for new construction industrialization projects to provide accounting bases for incremental investments. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Market Supervision Bureau)
20. Establish user supervision mechanisms. Develop guides for green housing buyers to inspect properties. Encourage inclusion of residential green performance and full decoration quality indicators in sales contracts, quality assurance certificates, and user manuals. Clarify warranty responsibilities and dispute resolution methods to protect buyer rights. (Led by the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
3. Guarantee Measures
21. Strengthen organizational leadership. Regional housing and urban-rural development departments should raise awareness, consolidate responsibilities, and establish a working mechanism led by housing and urban-rural development authorities. This mechanism will coordinate with development and reform, education, science and technology, industry and information technology, public security, finance, human resources and social security, natural resources, transportation, market supervision, taxation bureaus, banking and insurance regulatory bureaus, and other relevant departments to jointly promote new building industrialization development, ensure task implementation, and strengthen departmental coordination. (Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and related departments)
22. Strengthen project implementation. Housing and urban-rural development authorities should collaborate with relevant departments to formulate and improve local policies supporting accelerated development of new building industrialization. They must set clear development goals, key tasks, implementation scopes, task divisions, and timelines, and intensify promotion efforts. Government-funded projects, affordable housing, and large public buildings should lead by adopting new building industrialization methods, integrated design, and general contracting models with full-process engineering consulting. Social investment projects should also be encouraged to adopt these methods to accelerate industrialization development. (Led by Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, Development and Reform, and Natural Resources Departments at local levels)
23. Strengthen policy support. Clarify new building industrialization requirements in project approvals and construction management. Optimize administrative licensing and operational processes related to new construction projects. Provide logistics support for oversized and ultra-wide components transportation. Increase land support by prioritizing land for prefabricated component production and construction, allowing reasonable plot ratio increases for existing component factories in compliance with planning. Explore diversified green finance methods and provide financial support to innovative enterprises and projects meeting conditions. Strictly implement existing national tax preferential policies, ensuring full enterprise access. Support high-tech enterprise applications and industrial park construction for innovative enterprises. Encourage participation in provincial excellent engineering and standard demonstration site selections with priority consideration. (Led by Provincial Departments of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Science and Technology, Industry and Information Technology, Public Security, Natural Resources, Transport, Taxation Bureaus, People’s Bank of China Guangzhou Branch, Guangdong and Shenzhen Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureaus)
24. Strengthen evaluation and supervision. Establish evaluation and supervision mechanisms for new building industrialization promotion. Build project libraries, industrial chain enterprise databases, and talent pools. Improve statistics on development progress and conduct regular implementation evaluations with reporting. (Led by Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
25. Enhance publicity and awareness. Conduct policy interpretation and publicity activities related to new building industrialization. Encourage exhibitions, site visits, forums, and industry exchanges to popularize knowledge on industrialization benefits, including economic, social, and environmental aspects. Increase public awareness and foster broad support for development efforts. (Led by Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
Attachment: Key Task Division Table
Guangdong Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission
Guangdong Provincial Department of Education and Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology
Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Guangdong Provincial Department of Public Security
Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security
Guangdong Provincial Department of Natural Resources and Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation
Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Administration, State Administration of Taxation, Guangdong Provincial Taxation Bureau
People’s Bank of China Guangzhou Branch, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission Guangdong Regulatory Bureau
China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission Shenzhen Regulatory Bureau
July 21, 2022
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