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Value Engineering : A Practical Approach For Owners, Designers And Contractors
Larry W. Zimmerman,Glen D. Hart +1 more
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The article was published on 1988-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 97 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Value engineering.read more
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Critical Success Factors for Value Management Studies in Construction
Qiping Shen,Guiwen Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire survey was conducted to gather views from experts with experience in value management practice, revealing the relative importance of the nominated success factors and two factors that had not been highlighted by previous research.
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Trends in productivity improvement in the US construction industry
David Arditi,Krishna Mochtar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, survey results indicate that cost control, scheduling, design practices, labour training, and quality control are the functions that consistently over the years are perceived as having considerable room for productivity improvement, whereas materials packaging and foreign developments in construction technologies are perceived consistently as functions that do not have much effect on improving construction productivity.
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When is a Decision-Making Method Trustworthy? Criteria for Evaluating Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods
Thomas L. Saaty,Daji Ergu +1 more
TL;DR: 16 criteria are introduced that may be used to judge and evaluate various multi-criteria decision-making methods and some guidelines for their evaluation are given to help readers evaluate these MCDM methods.
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Constructability Analysis in the Design Firm
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine design professionals' efforts to pursue constructability and provide recommendations for performing constructability reviews in an efficient and effective manner, which is a subjective scale that depends basically on a number of interdependent project-related factors.
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Managing Value as a Management Style for Projects
TL;DR: Value management (VM) is presented as a methodological management style for enhancing value in projects as discussed by the authors, which draws together conceptual thinking on the project as a value chain with historical and international developments in value management and value engineering.