Value Engineering Services
Value Engineering Services
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Has anyone had experience using The Steel Network's free value engineering service? http://www.steelnetwork.com/VE.asp or any similar VE service for that matter.
Wondering if this is the real deal or just a gimmick to get their foot in the door.
We have a 3 story structural steel moment frame dormitory in SDC D along a fault line and the bids came in high....not because of my steel. Owner is pushing a lightgage stud alternative to try and save money...even though we tell him it wont because of the building configuration and all the seismic requirements. Not sure if using a VE service will help or hurt.
Wondering if this is the real deal or just a gimmick to get their foot in the door.
We have a 3 story structural steel moment frame dormitory in SDC D along a fault line and the bids came in high....not because of my steel. Owner is pushing a lightgage stud alternative to try and save money...even though we tell him it wont because of the building configuration and all the seismic requirements. Not sure if using a VE service will help or hurt.






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"Value Engineering is neither"
Economics is part of engineering design, is it not?
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Good designers should be conducting their own VE along the way, but often can't consider alternatives because of the project schedule.
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Make sure that if there is re-engineering to be done, that it be accurately represented in the total revised cost.
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