Value Engineering: Practical Applications
The best-known authority on Value Engineering in the Construction Industry shares his proven methods for: Making the Case for VE, Management Briefing, Integrating VE into Planning, Budgeting and Conducting Life Cycle Costing.
Use this Book as a tool for integrating value engineering into the design process. These are tools for immediate application by engineers, architects, facility managers, owners and contractors.
Value Engineering: Practical Applications gives you the foundations of VE and LCC –should you need to understand the current methodology. That way you'll have an overview in case you hire a practitioner and oversee the value engineering process.
The book shows you:
- * How to organize and apply VE and life cycle costing for maximum benefit
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- * Real-life VE demonstration projects – professionally organized reports, with recommendations you can apply right now
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- * Project workbook with forms to conduct a complete VE study
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The Unique Features of This Book Include: Case Studies (Corporate, Commerical, Hospital, Industrial and Civil) demonstrate various applications of the VE process. The Workbook takes you through the process in an expertly organized format, leading to the formal presentation. The CD-ROM provides spreadsheet templates, including formulas and links to a life cycle costing system.
The CD provides:
- * An electronic version of the Workbook you can use to organize your own VE Study, efficiently and professionally
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- * Access to the methods of the construction industry's most esteemed expert in Value Engineering and LCC
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- * A professional program for performing Life Cycle Cost Analysis for design, construction, and facilities operations - with linked files and worksheets
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- * Automated VE reports that allow you to follow a preorganized format to complete and present your own customized VE study, with links to worksheets that automatically summarize values in discipline categories
464 pp.
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