The Value Engineering Pioneer

Mr. Alphonse Dell'Isola, PE, RICS, FSAVE

The value engineering methodology for manufacturing was first developed by the late Larry Miles a General Electric employee during W.W.II, and later pioneered by Mr. Alphonse Dell'Isola, PE, RICS, FSAVE for its application, and use in the construction industry twelve years after his graduation from MIT in 1950.

The Value Engineering Law, now known as Public Law 104-106 is, in great part credited to, Mr. Alphonse Dell'Isola pioneering of the application in construction, and his expert testimony to several Senate and House Committees.

The Value Engineering Online Certification Course was developed by Al Dell'Isola, and is the "only" online course approved By SAVE International for Module I – Certification (Pt. I).

Engineering News-Record cited him in 1964 for outstanding achievement in the introduction of value engineering to the construction industry. In 1968, he received the Distinguished Service Award and in 1981 was elected Fellow of the International Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE International).

 In 1980, he received a Presidential Citation from the Society of Japanese Value Engineers. The Society of Japanese Value Engineering (SJVE) is a non-profit membership organization that provides and exchanges professional information about Value Engineering (VE), Japan and overseas, for the purpose of promoting VE activities to bring about better results among industrial and other business circles.

 Recognized worldwide as the earliest pioneer of Value Engineering for the construction industry, Mr. Dell'Isola, SJVE, and SANNO Institute of Management in a joint effort to advance his expert knowledge of, the value engineering methodology into the Japanese language have successfully translated his online course textbook, Value Engineering: Practical Applications into Japanese. To purchase textbook contact the SANNO Institute of Management Publication Dept. at,  http://www.sanno.ac.jp/index.html

 In 1993, he received an Exceptional Service Award from the World Trade Center for his input in the disaster reconstruction.

In 1994 he was elected an Honorary Associate of The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (U.K), and in 1998 was awarded by SAVE the Larry D. Miles Award (Their Highest Award for Technical Achievements).
 

Publications include over 100 articles on VE, LCC and cost control and texts Value Engineering in the Construction Industry (Third Edition) and co-author of Life Cycle Costing for Design Professionals (Second Edition), Life Cycle Cost Data and Project Budgeting for Buildings. Another book was released in 1997, Value Engineering: Practical Applications by R. S. Means Publishers of Kingston, MA. This book covers key project experiences and contains a disc of computer programs to aid the practitioner,

He has been instrumental in introducing VE Programs in over 35 countries, 30 government agencies and 30 large corporations. He has conducted over 1000 contracts for various organizations and agencies on projects valued at over 55 billion dollars that resulted in implemented savings of some $2.5 Billion. In addition, workshops, seminars and briefings in VE, construction management and project cost control were conducted to over 15,000 professionals, and was a consultant to the Presidential Advisory Council on Management Improvement.