• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.111-121
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• 2009

Value Engineering(VE) at design phase(so-called Design-VE) becomes quite a compulsory solution for better customer satisfaction, cost reduction, higher product performance, and, eventually, insured predominance in the competition. Unlike intended, however, the customer requirement on Design-VE has not been fully reflected in reality. Furthermore, the Design-VE occasionally does not progress in regular sequence; Preparation for measuring customer requirement - Function analysis - Idea creation. Therefore, this study suggests Axiomatic Design Theory to be adopted in Design-VE process expecting that the functions required by the customer could systematically reflected in VE process. Post-occupancy Evaluation(POE) is also represented as a method to measure and arrange the customer requirements. The customer satisfaction Design-VE process creates ideas defining functions in more detailed, to reflect the concrete user requirement. This approach helps function analysis and idea creation linked closely because function and idea are developed zigzag (i.e. function - idea - function...) in being decomposed into level down. The application of the process proposed by this study will be helpful to improve the customer requirement measurement and clarify a link between functions and ideas.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.6 no.3 s.25
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• pp.156-166
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to present proper VE application methods to euly design phases. Since VE methodology is more effective on early stage of design phase, the study focused on application of VE methodology in early stage of design process. With the examination of past studies, obstacles of VE application in domestic construction industry are defined. To solve these problems, this paper presents (1) subdivision of VE execution time, (2) an appropriate VE targeting method for construction industry, (3) a resonable and practical function analysis process, and (4) modified design-VE job plan.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.3D
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• pp.399-408
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• 2009

The major changes in construction environment are that construction project is bigger and more complicated and the power of construction market changes from the supplier to the client or the user. Especially public construction enterprises have advanced to introduce the value engineering (VE) which is one of the cost management based on the owner's leading at the design phase for economical efficiency and quality improvement. According to the these efforts, the implementation of VE was legislated in the revised Construction Technology Management Act in 2000, governmental agencies, local autonomies, and construction public enterprises universally has taken the VE into consideration. In this circumstance, the scope that VE construction applied at 50 billion won projects from 2003 has been extended to 10 billion won projects in 2006. Therefore, the VE construction will be activated in the future. The cost savings and function improvement, which are the purpose of VE are not only construction public enterprises, but also every public client supported from government's budget or owned by the government. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to propose the improved process and performance index of VE for governmental agencies, local autonomies, and construction public enterprises which want to introduce or improve the VE process. This research also suggested the To-be design-phased VE process model. In addition, it suggested the To-be model of design management reflected the To-be design-phased VE process model, which is eliminated two problems reflected for the performance improvement of the As-is model of design management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.151-156
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• 2007

2006년부터 VE 대상프로젝트가 확대되고, 기본설계와 실시설계단계에 각 1회씩 설계VE를 적용토록 규정되어 설계단계별로 VE가 각각 적용되는 프로젝트가 늘어나고 있다. 그리고 원가절감과 성능향상으로 프로젝트 가치를 높인 설계VE 사례도 많아지고 있다. 하지만 기본설계와 실시설계단계의 조건에 적합한 VE 수행방안에 대한 연구가 미진하고 참여자들의 경험과 이해가 부족하여 단계별 설계VE를 효율적으로 수행하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 기본설계단계와 실시설계단계로 나누어 VE를 수행한 실무사례를 분석하여 기능정의와 아이디어 창출간의 연관관계 및 각 설계단계에서 기능정의를 수행할 때 발생하는 문제점을 도출하였다. 문제점을 해결하고 효과적인 설계VE를 수행하기 위하여 다음과 같은 개선방안을 제시하였다. 첫째, 설계프로세스의 흐름에 맞추어 기본설계에는 공간기능에 대하여하고 실시설계에는 부위에 대하여 기능정의를 수행한다. 이때 상위의 레벨에는 하위의 레벨의 기능정의가 연계되는 기능분류체계 (FBS : Function Breakdown Structure)를 제안하였다. 둘째, 기본설계와 실시설계단계의 기능정의를 수행하는 프로세스 (FDP : Function Definition Process)를 제안하였다. 셋째, 실시설계단계에서는 부위별 요구 성능 평가 매트릭스 (EFM : Element Function Matrix)를 적용하여 기능정의와 아이디어 창출이 연계되도록 하였다. 설계VE의 주요 부분인 기능정의 과정에 대한 문제점을 도출하여 해결방안을 제시함으로써, 보다 효과적인 설계VE의 수행을 기대할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.533-546
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• 2007

This paper studied the design VE (Value Engineering) process among the various methods to satisfy the requirement of user and cost saving in the overall redesign process for the Turn-key base construction project. This study has been estabilished the rational and practical analysis process with the stepwise by using the design VE process. The efficiency and safety were verified with the adoptian of computer simulation to cope with the problem of initial analysis and verification for design VE process in the large construction project. In the previous design VE process, there is a limitation for the analysis of design VE in the planing stage and the execution time period of the large construction project. The previous application of VE technique was only for the construction of harbor facilities, so there was no contribution of cost saving in the function and construction. However, this paper proposed the selection methodology of VE items and hence the redesign VE process can be efficiently improved. It can be also improved the process of functional analysis rationally and practically. About 4.6 billion won has been saved with applying to the harbor construction project with using the VE method proposed in this paper. The study gives the direction of VE to be accomplished efficiently in the similar project.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.56-64
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• 2022

Although pilot projects have been actively carried out from 2017 to present to institutionalize CM at Risk, one of the major tasks for innovation in the construction industry, standards and processes related to Design VE, a key tool for determining GMP in the pre-construction phase, have not yet been established. Therefore, through research and operation status related to CM at Risk and Design VE, and survey on project participants' perception, the problem of the existing design VE process was derived, and the design VE process suitable for the CM at Risk project was proposed. The application plan was proposed in three aspects: Schedule, Cycle, and Process, and the appropriateness and applicability were verified through FGI. The results of this study are expected to be used as basic data on the establishment and legislation of order standards to be made in the future.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.6 no.3 s.25
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• pp.167-177
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• 2005

Value Engineering(VE) Workshop executes many tasks with VE team members from various experts of construction field on the basis of VE Job Plan for a short period of time. However, the VE team members are not useful with using VE information until now because it is not systematic in the accumulation and application of VE information. Especially, these problems constitute the obstacles to communication, reliability and quickness of VE information. It also causes an increase of time and cost at VE Workshop. Therefore, the results of this study suggests the conceptual model of Web-Based Information System for VE(WISE) in order to improve the effectiveness of VE Workshop and solve the problem as is stated above.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.3 no.2 s.10
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• pp.67-74
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• 2002

VE(Value Engineering) process and techniques are the systematic managerial tool for value engineers to help conduct VE study effectively. However, There is some difference between VE theory and practice in the domestic construction industry. Specially, function analysis appeared to be poorly recognized and regarded even as unnecessary in construction VE. It is needed to identify and enhance the problem areas to upgrade the VE practice. In order to investigate the current VE practice, a comprehensive literature survey and analysis were performed to obtain the trends and problems, related to the process and techniques. In the VE application of the domestic construction project, the study suggests some ideas and future study areas for the effective VE application in the construction industry.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.881-889
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• 2016

The VE evaluation process, in which the value is composed of the cost and the function, should have a characteristic of quantitative analysis based on specific figures rather than qualitative approach. However, most of the VE evaluation performed domestically have a problem of having no systematic process of quantification of the function, even though the cost is estimated and analyzed quantitatively. Moreover, in addition to the tendency of strong practical experience, the VE evaluation has the problem of limited application of practical scientific analysis caused by declining the suggestion of creative opinions by over quantification or over objectification. This paper presents the suggestions for improvement of VE evaluation processes, which satisfies the aspects of simplification and objectification, without hindering the essence of the evaluation in the practical business point of view.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.405-408
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• 2008

It is increased concerns that review the design based on the economic efficiency, VE(Value Engineering), in construction industry. Also, the effectiveness of VE case study has reported very variously in the domestic and foreign construction industry. The phase of drawing idea VE process is important because of real cost saving effect. The design review checklist in the phase of drawing idea make more effective VE. The research suggests the method and process of design review checklist focusing on the construction work in this study. Also, it proposes the useful process with the exited VE procedure.