The growing demand to optimize capital projects investments and to do more with less funds, project owners and more than ever, are now adopting the best practices of value engineering to identify and eliminate unwanted costs, while improving project’s function and quality. The aim is to increase the value of Read more…
Lean construction is a “way to design production systems to minimize waste of materials, time, and effort to generate the maximum possible amount of value,” (Koskela et al. 2002). Designing a production system to achieve the stated ends is only possible through the collaboration of all project participants (owner, a/e, Read more…
Design coordination is a broad term describing the integration of designs prepared by different members of the project design team to create a single, unified set of information that can be constructed without clashing components. Effective design coordination can help to reduce costs, delays, and disruptions that can be caused Read more…
