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Value Engineering and Design-Build

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Design-Build Explained

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Value engineering is a technique which originated in the engineering industry in the USA after the Second World War to improve efficiency of manufacturing processes.

‘This was the most unkindest cut of all’

Shakespeare [Julius Caesar]

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© 1991 D E L Janssens

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Janssens, D.E.L. (1991). Value Engineering and Design-Build. In: Design-Build Explained. Macmillan Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21601-7_18

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