Three items: (1) "Quality in the Constructed Project: A Guideline for Owners, Designers and Constructors" (American Society of Civil Engineers), preliminary edition executive summary, Oct. 1987; brochure, "Rebuilding America: Partnership for Investment: Innovative Contracting Practices" (Federal Highway Administration), January[?] 1995; "The Value of Value Engineering," Road Talk (Ontario Ministry of Transportation) 5:2, May 1999.

After more than 50 years as a manager and VE pioneer, Richard J. Park presents Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention. Park demonstrates how to adopt VE as a thinking process that can enable you to increase your problem solving skills, cultivate innovation, reduce costs, improve productivity, and more. Features

This volume aims to teach effective and practical techniques to improve the overall performance and outcome of design projects in various industries. It shows how to maximize budgets, reduce life cycle costs, improve project understanding and create better working relationships. It also features MS PowerPoint slides for class instruction.

Value Engineering (or Value Analysis) is widely used to study and apply cost-saving techniques during a product's life cycle; from design and development to purchasing and manufacturing. The implementation of Value Engineering results in "more for less", and it is rapidly becoming the favored method of planners and engineers to design parts, equipment, and products in a way that will provide the lowest possible cost without sacrificing reliability. In Value Engineering: A Blueprint, James Brown uses his vast experience to explain fully every aspect of the subject from its history to application. It takes the novice or experienced engineer through every phase of the process, step by step, and even explains how to write a VE report. Value Engineering is so important that Armed Services Procurement Regulations specify that all contracts over a stated dollar value must include either a VE program or incentive clause. Read this important book and discover how Value Engineering can contribute to your company's success.

In this hyper-connected world, the key to success/excellence is Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE). But the VA/VE discipline has been stagnant even though new books continue to be published by that title. This book revitalizes and reinvents VA/VE, and this re-engineered value engineering can positively disrupt the fragmented status quo of the value improvement/change management tools such as Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, Total Quality Management, Kaizen, and Project Management. This book connect the dots among these management tools by integrating them into VA/VE’s scientific method of the value methodology, based on the multi-disciplinary and whole-system thinking approach of VA/VE.