Name: Jestoni G.

Elano Date: 12-07-10

Course/Year: BSCE-5
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Plate # 2

VALUE ENGINEERING

Value engineering (VE) is the systematic review of a project, product, or process to improve
performance, quality, and/or life-cycle cost by an independent multidisciplinary team of specialists. The
VE process, referred to as the Job Plan, defines a sequence of activities that are undertaken during a VE
study, before, during, and following a workshop. During the VE workshop, the VE team learns about the
background issues, defines and classifies the project (or product or process) functions, identifies creative
approaches to provide the functions, and then evaluates,develops, and presents the VE proposals to key
decisionmakers. It is the focus on the functions that the project, product,or process must perform that sets
VE apart from other quality-improvement or cost-reduction approaches.

Example of Value Engineering

In a building design, forty-one items were identified in the value engineering process.These items
were ultimately eliminated, reduced or changed during June 2001 to bring the schematic design in under
the original budgeted amount.
 Some those items were: 
• Downsizing the atrium.
• Eliminating one column bay from the building design totaling 9,900 sq. ft.
• Downsizing the cistern.
• Eliminating certain exterior structural items, not necessary as a part of the building structure, such
as the brick amphitheater northwest of the building designed to reuse brick from the demolished women’s
prison building.
• Reducing interior equipment items such as plumbing and kitchen equipment.
• Reducing the landscaping allowances.
• Changing the parking lot material to asphalt.
• Removing wheel stops in the parking lot and various other design components having little effect
on the LEED certification.
• Reducing the design services contingency by 8 percent.
• Using less expensive building materials such as gypsum board, glass, concrete, wood and the
roofing material.