Implementing value engineering study for temporary facilities

Abstract

Value engineering (VE) is a technique for reducing costs while keeping the required function, and improves performance and quality. It can be applied in many areas. In construction projects, VE is typically carried out for the project itself, but not for mobilisation and temporary facilities. For large and remote construction projects, the cost of mobilisation and temporary facilities is considerably high. So, a VE study could lead to a significant saving in the construction costs. This paper provides evidence of the significant saving that resulted by implementing VE for temporary facilities of a construction project. A case study of temporary facilities for a large power plant project is presented, and includes the VE steps and actual results. The main findings of this study suggest that the implementation of VE study for temporary facilities of construction projects could lead to a significant cost reduction, particularly in mega projects and remote projects

Value engineering for the selection of a suitable type of foundation in metro rail projects: A case study from India

“…Thompson, et al, (2009) applied VE, considering site complexities to select a suitable type of embankment stabilization system. VE was also applied for identifying suitable cost-effective temporary facilities such as selecting the sources of electricity supply for the mobility phases of the project (Trigunarsyah and Hamzeh, 2017).…”

“…The VE practices for construction were found applied for various buildings (Lee, 2018;Berawi, et al, 2021), and infrastructure projects such as highways (Atabay and Galipogullari, 2013;Kim, et al, 2016;Mousakhani, et al, 2017), bridges (Basha and Gab-Allah, 1991;Tang and Bittner, 2014), power stations (Trigunarsyah and Hamzeh, 2017;Li, et al, 2019) and other utility projects (Cuimei and Suiqing, 2008). However, their application specific to the construction of metro rail infrastructure projects are seldom targeted.…”

Editorial

“…The paper by Trigunarsyah and Hamzeh (2017) focuses on the utilisation of value engineering technique to study the mobilisation and temporary facilities in construction projects and it has been evidently shown that it could lead to significant costs reduction without compromising the quality and functionality. Delaney et al (2017) conducted an extensive user experience surveys on a typical off-road shared-use route in Bristol, UK with an aim to contribute to the enhancement of design and management of shared-use paths.…”