A Study on the Advancement Planning of the Design VE System

Abstract

The economic efficiency review of design, etc. (hereinafter, Value Engineering (VE)) is the work designed to use the minimum life-cycle cost (LCC) and review the economy and field adjustment feasibility of design contents by function and alternative measure to secure the necessary functions of facilities. To systematically and comprehensively manage the results of the design VE done by ordering agencies and to use such results for performing similar design works, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT) has constructed and is implementing the design VE system based on the Guidelines for the Review of Economy of Design, etc. (hereinafter, VE guidelines). The design VE system, however, is outdated because of the changes that were made in the input and management items when the VE guidelines were amended and because of the inappropriate function improvement since its construction. It currently requires the input of many unnecessary items, and the information is stored chiefly in the form of text, making it inappropriate to utilize the data for designing similar construction projects. This study proposes measures for the update of the design VE system to reflect the amendment of the VE guidelines, to simplify the unnecessary input functions, to boost the search function, and to provide diverse forms of statistics. These proposed update measures are expected to assess the comprehensive analysis of the design VE performance results, to share the design VE information with the ordering agencies and design firms so as to come up with effective alternative measures, to reduce construction project costs, and to improve the quality of construction projects.