Publication: A study of value management application in sustainable construction
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Date
2013
Authors
Satwant Singh Chahil Naranjan Singh
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Value Management is defined as a strategy to achieve business objectives, mainly focusing on saving cost with the available resources in the market. Sustainable Construction, also known as green construction, concerns the impact of economy, social and the environment in creating a useable structure. This study reports the application of Value Management in Sustainable Construction. The objective of this study was to observe cost and time reduction as well as sustainability in a construction with the application of Value Management. The scope was narrowed down in reporting on the aspects of Industrial Building System (IBS), a subset of Sustainable Construction. Questionnaires were drafted and distributed among engineering students of UNITEN as well as interviews with the industry experts were held as part of the methodology of this study. The findings were tabulated and analysed. It was observed that 58% and 80% understood about Value Management and Sustainable Construction respectively. The feedbacks from students and industry experts were in agreement to the hypothesis of thesis.
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TH880.S27 2013
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Sustainable construction