Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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quality that you are pursuing so that the costs are
the right costs and you get true value.
We're going to discuss a few value
engineering trends that we're seeing out in the
market and things that we think will help your
program. The VE concept should start very early in
the process. A couple of thoughts are at inception
and then somewhere in the implementation process,
and then at the conclusion. One idea that has been
used is to bring in a value engineer as a
facilitator to do a workshop, a design workshop to
set the priorities and set the value measures for
the project right from the inception, because all
projects aren't the same. We might have a program
like the SED program, but it's a program, not a
template.
We want to establish the goals that are
appropriate to the project and use those as
measures, as we proceed forward in our
implementation of the project. Next slide.
We talked about the SED. A value
engineering workshop can help decide how we are best
using the SED. Remember, the SED, is it a template
or standard? Which one? Is it a kit of parts or a
cookie cutter design? We're not cookie cutter
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