Effectiveness of Value Engineering in Reducing Delay in Urban Projects

Abstract

Because of misappropriate design, technology complications, excessive number of organizations and involving people in the project, variation of needed qualifications and extensive number of activities, development projects don’t execute within primary determined cost and time constraint. Therefore presence of a regular system for optimizing investment in development and urban plans is needed. Optimization methods causing project implementation within primary cost and time constraint work are effective to eliminate negative effects of mentioned factors. The objective of this research is to investigate the effect of using value engineering in order to eliminate causes of delays in the urban projects of country. Regarding the results of this research, the most and least effect of value engineering are in order to eliminate delay causes arising from integration and human resource mismanagement. Moreover, value engineering must be employed for refinement and optimization of processes before and during project execution in order to decline time delay and costs and to increase value of projects. Value engineering studies, specifically whenever strategic decisions should be taken, could affect positively on the project execution. Finally, employing value engineering technique and compounding these methods to project management science can increase the value index of urban projects.