Abstract
Recently, Value Engineering (VE) has been introduced to cut down the cost in the field of public works. Kobe City is the first organization to apply VE to its public works in 1991. In December of 1994, the Ministry of Construction decided to apply “VE Proposal System” to the Ministry's management in its “Action Program for Cut-Off of the Costs of Public Works”. Thereafter, the central and local governments have conducted VE Proposal System. This study analyzes the present situations of the central government, and the local governments and the private sectors that have introduced VE earlier than the central government. Furthermore, the various aspects of the VE Proposal System and the future perspectives are discussed.
As the results, we proposed that to introduce the VE at the earlier implementing step if possible, to allow the engineers taking part in the VE activities without the limitation of company, to build an institution giving the incentives more, to evaluate the effects of VE in addition to the cost cutting and revising of the law and design guidelines for more softly applications.
