Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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construction out to the site. Designers will sit
around and talk about some of the esoterics about
how this is a great design and we will run
calculations. But anyone who has worked with the
superintendent on a project knows that that's the
guy who really knows how the project goes together.
We need those people involved in the process of
value engineering, because they can educate us on
how to do a better job in design to facilitate good
construction.
John?
MR. WOODS: The negative of this is
something that I have seen doing the security work.
My colleague over here from M. C. Dean is a good
example, where they would rather not do the design
because they would rather do the construction. But
you would like to have contractors on a VE team who
have been there, done that and done it. So this to
me is a terrific idea, but the implementation of it
with the conflict of interest potential is not easy.
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MR. KNOOP: Excellent. This is where we're
getting involved a lot with the Army Corps of
Engineers. The Navy is at the RFP process. The
value engineering teams analyzing the RFPs how you
represent your project to the marketplace. Are you
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