A Study on the DesignVE Information System Linkage Plan in Public Construction Projects

Abstract

economic feasibility review (DesignVE) is a task that involves reviewing the economic feasibility and field application of design contents by function and alternative to secure the required functions of facilities with the minimum Life-cycle cost (LCC). The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (hereafter, MOLIT) integrates and manages the results of the design value engineering (VE) performed by each ordering agency through the system (hereafter, DesignVE Yard), which it has constructed based on the Guidelines for Reviewing the Economic Feasibility of the Design (hereafter, guidelines), so that similar design tasks can use the integrated information. It is also making it mandatory to input the result information in the Yard through the VE guidelines. MOLIT's affiliated agencies, however, including public corporations and services, have dedicated organizations for the performance of tasks, and they have constructed and operated their own systems. As a result, these affiliated agencies have the problem of performing the same task twice, inputting the result information in their own system and inputting the same information in MOLIT's Yard. To address the aforementioned problem, proposed in this paper is a plan for linking the information systems through the status survey and analysis of the existing systems. Through this, it is expected that the problem of unnecessary duplicate inputs will be addressed, and that the integrated management and operation of the result information through MOLIT's Yard will be improved.