Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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much as looking at the not clearly evident
positives, you know, and so reaching out for the
sort of hidden positives. And perhaps you are
really limiting yourself by calling yourself a value
engineering team. It's more like a holistic look at
a building. You know, because whenever you know, we
think of value engineering, we think about oh,
cheaper ways of doing things.
with the industry.
MS. BETHANY: I know. That's a problem
MS. SORG: Maybe a name change or sort of,
if your mission is bigger than that, then I think
maybe you might think about --
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MS. BETHANY: And if I put on my other hat,
you probably saw it on the slide, I am the Executive
Vice President of SAVE International. That is a
topic that I am sure Greg can talk to too. It's the
subject of debate of every meeting of value
engineers. What do we call ourselves?
When the law was written, it said value
engineering, but there are some that will call
themselves value analysis, some will call value
management. You know, what do you call what we do?
You're right, it is a holistic review but it is -- I
got very excited when I first took over the job of
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