Value Engineering
In today's economic and political climate, we understand that industrial and governmental organizations face mounting pressures. They must deliver safe, effective solutions that are cost-effective as well. That is where the importance of value engineering comes into play.
Value engineering (VE) is a process used to assess a project design to ensure that goals are met efficiently and effectively. For construction projects, the benefits of value engineering vary by project and can include lower first costs and life-cycle costs, environmental considerations, a more integrated building design, and improved function. VE is a methodology that is comprised of many useful tools and techniques that create change on purpose rather than letting change happen accidentally.
It is crucial to understand that VE does not mean skimping on materials or adopting structurally inferior building practices. Rather, it is a process that can identify opportunities to remove unnecessary costs and optimize expenditure of owner funds while assuring functionality, quality, reliability, performance, and other critical factors that meet or exceed customers' expectations.
In today's "Design Build" culture, our mission is to engineer value into every project. We have helped so many of our general contractors and end user clients deliver projects on or under budget through strategic value engineering. Most of our VE successes are accomplished without undoing the existing design investment. Because we value the designer's time, we strive to accomplish significant value gain, while maintaining the integrity of the original design intent.
At Sustainable Interiors, we employ methods of VE to produce the following results:
- Thorough project specification analysis to ensure best value
- Excellent manufacturer partnerships that deliver best pricing
- Quick, creative, effective solutions
- Maximized resources
- Optimized construction expenditures
- Lower life-cycle costs
- Alternative technology discoveries
...because engineering value is sustainable.
