Optimizing Projects Via the Value Methodology
In the built environment, public agencies are contending with heightened inflationary challenges—along with constrained funding.
A certified federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and state Women-Owned Business (WBE), BCI facilitates SAVE International’s Value Methodology (VM) used to optimize projects and processes.
Services
- Value Methodology (VM) facilitation for VM, value analysis (VA) and value improvement (VI) studies by a Certified Value Specialist (CVS)—in-person, virtual, and hybrid workshops
- Training and education in the Value Methodology
Value Methodology Resources
SAVE International
Miles Value Foundation
Miles Value Foundation
SAVE International® is the premier international society devoted to advancing and promoting the Value Methodology (VM). The Society provides its members education and training, publications, certification, promotional tools, networking, and recognition.
Miles Value Foundation
Miles Value Foundation
Miles Value Foundation
The Miles Value Foundation (MVF) promotes and funds the development of educational programs, new applications, and a research library for the study of the Value Methodology (VM). VM includes the applications known as Value Analysis, Value Engineering, and Value Management.
Public Agency Requirements for Value Engineering
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
OMB Circular A-131, Revised December 26, 2013, provides guidance to support the sustained use of value engineering (VE) by federal departments and agencies to reduce program and acquisition costs, improve performance, enhance quality, and foster the use of innovation.
U.S. Congress
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
The National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law 104-106, 1996, mandates that each executive agency establish and maintain cost-effective value engineering procedures and processes.
U.S. Congress
U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Federal Highway Administration
Public Law 111–350, §3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3718 41 USC 1711 - Value Engineering, mandates that "each executive agency shall establish and maintain cost-effective procedures and processes for analyzing the functions of a program, project, system, product, item of equipment, building, facility, service, or supply of the agency."
Federal Highway Administration
USACE Value Engineering Regulations
Federal Highway Administration
FHWA’s VE regulations consistent with the statutory changes in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP–21); Federal Highway Administration Final Rule, 23 CFR Part 627, § 627.3 (e) Value Engineering (VE) Analysis and (f) VE Job Plan, Federal Register Vol. 79, No. 172, Rules and Regulations, September 5, 2014
USACE Value Engineering Regulations
USACE Value Engineering Regulations
USACE Value Engineering Regulations
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Regulations, January 1, 2011
USACE Value Engineering Policy
USACE Value Engineering Regulations
USACE Value Engineering Regulations
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Value Engineering Policy—Updated Regularly