Who Should Take These Courses

These courses are designed for people responsible for making significant decisions concerning budgets for large, complex projects in private industry and public institutions. In the past, students have included executives, managers, architects, engineers, purchasing professionals, trainers and technical specialists in manufacturing, retail, architectural design, engineering design, construction management, federal and state agencies, universities, pharmaceutical and other research institutions and transportation and environmental agencies.

Value Engineering Training

Value Engineering (synonymous with the terms Value Management and Value Analysis) is a professionally applied, function-oriented, systematic team approach used to analyze and improve value in a product, facility design, system or service - a powerful methodology for solving problems and/or reducing costs while improving performance/quality requirements.

In simple terms the student will learn to use VE as a systematic approach to obtaining optimum value for every dollar spent. During this process all expenditures relating to construction, maintenance, replacement, etc., are considered. Quite commonly 15 to 25 percent, and very often much more, of the construction costs can be removed by effective application of the teaching of VE.

Life Cycle Cost Training

The Life Cycle Cost (LCC) methodology is considered one of the most comprehensive, and objective methods for selecting the optimum system for construction of a facility. All factors / elements that influence a total system facility cost can be identified and quantified by comparing two or more alternatives.