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Abstract
The Construction Industry is considered a major sector that plays
a vital role in the economic growth of nations. However,
inherently construction projects incur risks of cost and time
overruns impacting both budgets and delivery dates. Value
Engineering is considered an important tool, if properly
used, will counter these inherent construction risks without
jeopardizing project functions.
The objective of the research is to develop a Value Engineering
Model which can be used as a tool to achieve the best return on
investment for structural building systems. The research
demonstrates that the newly developed model is deployed in the
value engineering study. It furthermore presents an evaluation and
assessment of current Value Engineering practices for the
construction industry in Egypt, by Investigates current Value
Engineering practices.
The research provides substantially comprehensive sequenced
models that combine and consolidate the value engineering
phases into a practical and applicable set which facilitate and
promote the implementation of the Value Engineering study. The
main contribution of this research is ”The Function Based
Breakdown Structure (FBBS)” that can be used to analyze and
classify the functions of the detailed components into Basic,
Secondary and Required Secondary functions associated to its
costs. This will enable management to further examine the
possible consequences and the impacts that may occur from
eliminating the secondary functions and determine other ways or
alternatives to achieve the project objectives with respect to
its constraints (Function, Time, Cost and Quality).
The construction of an office building is used as a case study to
validate the research by selecting the optimum structural system
utilizing the developed Value Engineering Model. A
Questionnaire is used to understand the current applications of
Value Engineering, what is the category level of the organizations
that are concerned to apply value engineering. Finally, an assessment is made identifying problems hindering the use of
Value Engineering methodologies and means of activating proper
processes and scientific procedures in the Egyptian engineering
and construction sector.