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County Commissioners <br />Project Management <br />Page 2 <br />Savings opportunities <br />Preliminary Final design <br />Design design <br />concept <br />Implementation Costs <br />As listed below, it is a process that shows greatest benefit if employed at several <br />points in the design /construct process: <br />• Early in the schematic design phase; <br />• Concurrently with the engineering review; <br />• When cost data becomes available; <br />• During the working drawings phase (design is approximately 95% complete); <br />and <br />• Throughout construction. <br />A system of checks and balances is maintained by carrying out the process <br />during each of these phases. Mid - stream adjustments are thereby effected with <br />minimal, if any, cost or time impact and a more successful projects are realized. <br />The Process <br />The job plan, which is critical to the successful Value Engineering process <br />encompasses six distinctive phases as follows: <br />1. Information gathering. <br />• This phase familiarizes the Value Engineering team with the contract <br />plans and specifications. It involves a functional analysis of the <br />project that looks at the total system first and then each of the <br />component parts. Energy utilization models as well as cost models <br />are prepared in advance of this stage and are shared with the Value <br />Engineering team. <br />2. Speculativetcreative phases. <br />• This phase of the job plan is used to generate many ideas for the <br />project in an effort to remove barriers to a fri3e flow of ideas. <br />3. Evaluation/analytical phase. <br />• The Value Engineering team will analyze the ideas resulting from the <br />creative session and will select the best ideas for further <br />development. <br />4. Development/recommendation phase. <br />• The Value Engineering team members prepare alternative designs for <br />consideration with life cycle cost comparisons of the original designs <br />and proposed alternatives. All recommendations are documented <br />with sketches, basic concept and recommendation of alternatives. <br />5. Report phase. <br />• The Value Engineering team presents the results of their work to the <br />designer and owners. <br />10 <br />