Value Engineering
CMIC applies value engineering to reduce long-term costs without compromising the quality, safety, or performance of your project.
Reduce Costs Without Compromising Quality
At CMIC, we believe in providing true value to our clients, going above and beyond what general contractors normally do. By applying the concept of value engineering, we reduce your costs in the long term without compromising on the quality of the resulting product. We apply value engineering right at the start of a project, ensuring cost reduction and value addition at every stage through to completion.
Scope like this is usually priced alongside our Design-Build team, so estimating, permitting and field work all stay under one contract with one accountable point of contact.
Scope Of Work
What Is Included
Every line below is handled in house or by a pre-qualified trade partner under our contract, so nothing falls between scopes and nothing shows up later as an unexplained change order.
- Cost Effective Alternates
- Function & Lifecycle Analysis
- Written Owner Proposals
- Objective & Value Definition
- Key Element Identification
- Material Substitution Review
- Assembly Level Pricing
- Constructability Review
- Long-Term Cost Reduction
- Quality & Safety Protection
- Design Stage Savings
- Maintenance Cost Analysis
Our Approach
When the drawings still need work at this stage, our Construction Management group resolves it before the budget is locked, which is the last point where a change is still free to make.
Acquiring Information
We collect all data relevant to your project, including your objectives, quality criteria, and definition of value. We identify the key elements of the proposed structure, analyze their functions, and get a clear picture of what we are expected to deliver while reducing costs and improving efficiency and quality.
- Objectives, quality criteria, and your definition of value documented
- Key elements of the structure identified and their functions analyzed
- Current budget and schedule constraints confirmed before analysis
Analyzing Information
Our experts analyze all the information and develop alternative, cost-effective solutions for delivering the functions of the key elements identified earlier, focusing on cost-cutting solutions for each stage of the project, including planning, design, material acquisition, and construction.
- Alternates developed for planning, design, materials, and construction
- Function, quality, and lifecycle cost weighed at the assembly level
- Savings quantified so every option can be compared honestly
Developing Proposals
We evaluate the solutions and ideas generated in the previous step, weighing which are workable and which are likely to reduce costs in the short or long term. We then develop these ideas into workable proposals and present them for your review and approval.
- Workable ideas separated from savings that will not hold up
- Written proposals presented for your review and approval
- Approved alternates carried into the drawings and the budget
Value Engineering Is Not Cost Cutting
Value engineering is about hiring the best professionals, using quality materials and equipment, employing best practices, and delivering the right results while reducing costs where possible. We only recommend less expensive alternatives or design changes when we're confident they won't reduce quality, safety, structural integrity, performance, or lifespan. In many cases, savings aren't immediate, but our approach pays off over the long term by reducing maintenance and operational costs.
- Quality, safety, structural integrity, and lifespan never traded away
- Substitutions recommended only when performance is fully protected
- Maintenance and operating savings counted alongside first cost
Have a Project in Mind?
CMIC has a thorough understanding of value engineering and has applied it successfully across many projects. Every step we take is meant to reduce your costs, increase your savings, and achieve your objectives without delaying your project or compromising quality. Connect with CMIC today to get started.
If you want a single team carrying the project from concept through closeout, start with Architectural Services and we will build the rest of the package around it.
Projects We Have Delivered
A sample of completed value engineering work from our field teams, from structure through final finishes, handed over ready to open.
View Full PortfolioFrequently Asked Questions
These are the questions owners, developers and facility teams ask most often before awarding value engineering work. If your question is not covered here, our project team will answer it directly against your drawings, site conditions and target opening date.
What Is Value Engineering?
A structured review of systems, materials and methods to hit the same performance and design intent for less cost. It is about substituting smarter solutions, not cutting quality out of the building.
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