2013年12月7日星期六

Information Stage Checklist

The following areas or causes of high costs, that may indicate poor value, should receive tghe majority of the VE effort:


  • Great complexity in the design. Generally, the more complex the design, the more opprotunity there is to improve value and performance 
  • An advancement in the state-of-the-art. Those aspects of design that reach beyond the state-of-the-art usually offer potential VE savings. 
  • High degree of time compression in the design cycle. A project having an acdelerated design program will usually contain elements of over design. 
  • A component or material that is critical, exotic, hard-to-get or expensive 
  • Intricate shapes, deep excavations, high embankments, steep slopes, etc. 
  • Comoenents that appear to be difficult to consturct 
  • Overly long material haul: Excessive borrow; execcesive waste. Expensive construction traffic control. 
  • Long foundation piles 
  • Excessive reinforcement 
  • Cofferdam dewatering 
  • Record seeking design (longest span, highest piers, deepest cut, etc.) 
  • High safety factors 
  • Curb, gutters and sidewalk 
  • Specially designed compoennts that appear to be similar to low cost items. 
  • Components that include non-standards fasteners, bearings, grades and sizes 
  • Processess or components that require highly-skilled or time-consuming labor. Items with poor service or cost history. 
  • Items that have maintenance and field operatins problems 
  • Project costs that exceed the amount budgeted. 
  • Standard plans in use more than 3 or 4 years. 
Will a change to the existing method solve any problems or have any benefits other than cost, ins uch asreas as ? 

- noise 
- realibility
-aesthetics
-safety
-fire protections 
-simpliification
-maintainability
-stanbdardization
-vibration
-time
-performance
-air qualityu
- quality weight 
-employment rate 
- energy use 
-water quality 



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