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"Maximizing Value and Function for Campus Facilities"
Author: Robinson, John L.
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: Summer 1995

How a project uses money deserves every bit as much consideration in the planning process as structural loading, architectural design, or capacity of the HVAC system.  Recommends value engineering as the best tool for ensuring that money is spent wisely.  Includes definition and benefits of value engineering, myths about VE and the design process, application of value engineering, and a five-phase job plan.  Provides sidebar of results of VE study on a science facility at Western Washington University. 

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