Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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not here, working together with the industry to come
up with ideas to make better value for our projects.
We do that as well.
And we also have an analysis on lessons
learned component to our program. And this is where
I start to get into what is new in value
engineering. We do something called a VE assessment
trip and we also have a database of every VE
alternative that has ever been made during our
program. So we can analyze trends and get into
lessons learned or into the said change request
program, ways of improving our designs for future.
What I'm hoping for with the program is to bring the
return on investment down, especially if we're
building similar buildings. We shouldn't be seeing
a trend upwards, we should be seeing a trend
downward as we improve on our process.
The next slide is the typical overview of
our VE study schedule. I know I think that some of
you may have seen this before, but we follow the
same thing that SAVE International recommends in
terms of how we do value engineering. A little bit
different is our post-study in our approval
implementation and database of alternatives and
results. That's slightly different than what SAVE
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