Value Engineering

Effective value engineering (VE) studies provide owners with deep insight into a project's total construction and life-cycle costs. By identifying high cost areas with low value, VE studies promote efficient resource allocation, enabling owners to select the optimum solutions to complex problems—solutions that represent a practical balance between cost, performance, longevity and reliability.

ARCADIS has applied VE expertise to thousands of projects large and small, including highways, transit systems, airports, correctional facilities, hospitals, educational facilities, buildings, water and wastewater treatment systems, storage structures, and conveyance, industrial and power generation plants.

Our proven VE capabilities include:

• Benefit/cost and quantitative and qualitative decision analysis
• Life-cycle costing
• Process simplification and materials management
• Energy modeling
• Constructability reviews
• Risk analysis
• Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling
• Function Analysis Technique (FAST) diagramming

To conduct VE studies, we begin with complete project information and documentation produced by the owner and project development teams. We then use established value methodologies to uncover where enhancements can most likely be implemented. Working hand-in-hand with the owner, we generate creative solutions to achieve desired value improvements.
The positive results of ARCADIS VE studies may take many directions. Where some project elements are costly but do not help the project achieve its ultimate goals, VE studies can provide alternatives that allow budgets to be met while minimizing the effect on performance or quality.

Often the owner confronts complex issues that must be addressed to satisfy multiple stakeholder needs or meet sustainability goals. In these cases, VE studies can help identify creative solutions, using design standards and guidelines that employ best practices.
The strength of ARCADIS' VE capabilities is due to our experienced staff of certified value specialists, mechanical/process engineers, LEED®-accredited professionals and cost analysts. Our multidisciplinary teams, comprised of over 4,000 specialists, develop creative solutions that fully support the owner's objectives. Our expertise is reflected in the fact that ARCADIS experts have crafted industry-standard VE guidelines for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Our commitment to service, combined with our extensive list of successful VE consultations, makes ARCADIS a trusted single source for the complex tasks needed to successfully complete and add lasting value to construction projects.