COMPARATIVE STUDY ON MODULAR CONSTRUCTION WITH IN - SITU CONSTRUCTION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

The main objective of the work is to study the present situation of modular construction and study the cost effectiveness of construction modular building for residential purposes. A literature survey was carried out in other to obtain the cost comparisons between modular structure and cast in place (in - site) structure. After careful study of the bill of quantit ies of the two construction methods, the result shows that modular construction cost is higher than, that of the In - situ construction for one storey building.