Construction professionals know the importance of value engineering to keeping projects on budget. But we also know that term has been diluted. According to Wikipedia, “value engineering is a ...

Over the past half-century, value engineering (VE) has proven to be an effective tool to manage time, costs, and quality with an aim to maximize value. It has also been shown to be a highly effective ...

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Certain stigma resounds around the word ‘Value Engineering’, and most associate it with cost-cutting, scope reduction, and loss of quality and redesign. The construction industry is well known for ...

As an ideal, the underlying intentions of value engineering seem noble. Truly, discarding elements of a design that add extraneous costs but do not make a significant contribution to a building’s ...

Every contractor has seen it happen: a project design that, for whatever reason, exceeds the owner's budget. If there's no leeway to spend more—and these days, there usually isn't—the contractor has ...

Picture a scenario where an Army Corps of Engineers project manager is working on a military construction project consisting of a 20,000 square foot administrative space with mixed carpeting and tile ...

While value engineering can be used at any point in a construction project, more developers are evaluating value engineering opportunities early in the construction process. With labor and materials ...

Value engineering is by no means a new concept in construction. Yet, its relevance to modern building challenges remains as significant today as it first was over 75 years ago. This systematic and ...

Funding is a major obstacle for drone programs launching at large companies. With budgets tight, drone advocates may struggle to get corporate approval to fly on the jobsite unless they can prove that ...