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Assessment of Value Engineering Technique in Dams

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  • International Journal of Science and Engineering Investigations

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  • 2016

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Value engineering has many applications to organize the values and costs, and to maximize value indexes in construction of the dam. Significant costs and multiple items in the cost of dam construction projects provides appropriate context for applying value engineering. Today, the majority of each country’s wealth, especially developing countries, dedicated to its development projects and infrastructures and a factor of economic growth and development of any society is the country's success in implementing its development projects. The main problem faced by most large projects are lack of project value engineering to reduce costs, increase quality and reduce time. The aim of this study is using value engineering technique on dams of Kohgiluyeh (An area in Iran). Results show that with the help of value engineering in a dam (Kosar dam), in addition to select high-value options, managed to reduce costs by 14%, reduce the time by 19 percent and increase the quality by 8%. In this project as an example of extractive and infrastructure projects in the country, with people inside and outside the organization and the use of value engineering technology, while raising the value of the project, costs were saved.
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