ACC Value Engineering is a specialized design review undertaken to optimize/rationalize project costs whilst maintaining the original design brief. The functional analysis of a design identifies non-essential characteristics and functions for the purpose of their elimination or modification thus enabling the costs of satisfying the design brief to be reduced. Value Engineering aims at providing the best balance between cost, performance and reliability.

ACC Value Engineering operates on an organized schedule of procedures. This enables the functional requirements and alternative solutions, with their associated costs, to be identified and developed to a strict timetable. Value Engineering is generally undertaken as an intensive workshop by an independent team of experienced design professionals acting in a consultative capacity to the client. Upon conclusion they produce a thorough report, with recommendations, for review and assessment by the client and his project design team. The project design team's responsibilities to the client are not affected. The Value Engineering team, operating in a complementary role, act as a positive catalyst for savings.

ADVANTAGES OF VALUE ENGINEERING:
ACC Value Engineering provides a proven means to:

• Reduce project costs.
• Improve design efficiency.
• Optimize value for money.
• Concentrate design effort.
• Advance design decisions.
• Highlight design options for selection.
• Improve ways to comply with the brief.
• Afford an independent functional review.