As an ideal, the underlying intentions of value engineering seem noble. Truly, discarding elements of a design that add extraneous costs but do not make a significant contribution to a building’s ...

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If you had to define value engineering in a single word, you might boil it down to 'efficiency.' That would be one word, but it wouldn’t be accurate. The basic misconception of value engineering is ...