EPCOR Drainage Services (formerly "Drainage Design and Construction—City of Edmonton") acquired a new facility: the Edmiston Yard in 2015. This new shop & yard will provide the necessary space to deliver equipment services and support to the construction groups, and facilitate the in-house refurbishment of the tunnel boring machines.
A study to optimize the usage of the shop area was conducted in 2015. The deliverables of the study included:
1. An optimized shop space layout plan. This included analyses to determine the optimum location for each piece of equipment based on work flow and process needs, and to identify optimum requirements for each functional need and to minimize recycling and movement crossing points;
2. An equipment relocation plan from the old shop (Coronation Yard) to the new shop (Edmiston Yard). This included an optimized schedule of the equipment transfer with minimal disruption on the equipment services and supports to construction activities, and a staging plan.
Value analysis was employed in developing the study, integrated with other problem-solving techniques including Six-Sigma, lean concept, computer simulation and 3D-modelling. The presentation highlights how the team delivered the project and the integration between various tools.
Drones and UAVs in construction are slowly expanding from site operations like land surveying, visual monitoring of site safety or instruction progress, to value added management of projects for decision making inherent to data processing from captured information using drones.
This presentation introduces a framework for the integration of innovation technology such as Building Information Modeling with UAS application beyond project monitoring and into project value management. Showcasing a case study from a Calgary construction project, the presentation will emphasize the following Learning Objectives:
A VE study was undertaken in 2014 for the Parliament Hill West Block project which showcased VE to the federal government as a successful management tool. The project dealt with an over budget project that required Treasury Board approval to proceed if it could not be delivered on budget. The VE methodology was used to refocus the design team, contractor and client user groups on their performance requirements. The success of the study resulted in a project that could meet the current budget and avoided schedule extensions to request additional funding. Mr. Taylor will describe the success story and the continued efforts to engage Treasury Board to adopt VE in their update of policies.
Public Works and Government Services Canada has undergone two changes recently. The first is a change of name: from PWGSC to Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC). The second is a major change in its office facilities. PSPC wished to adopt an ABW (Activity Based Workplace) model for the design of its new offices. In addition, supported by a latest-generation software, PSPC will operate on a "hoteling" principle, hence by reserving work areas, thus allocating no fixed work area for its employees. This presentation explains how the Functional Performance Specification process was used to define PSPC's planning needs and provide guidance for the design of the new workplace. The speaker will discuss how PSPC staff were actively involved in the construction of their FASTs and how characterization was produced to circumscribe planning and environmental requirements for the new work environment.
More information on Functional Performance Specification, also known as a Benefits Breakdown Structure can be found at http://www.valueanalysis.ca/fps.php
En raison de sa nature d’optimisation, l’analyse de la valeur constitue un défi pour l’intégrité des projets architecturaux issus de concours. Les concepteurs peuvent exprimer une réticence à entreprendre un tel exercice de peur de voir les concepts fondamentaux de leur projet être remplacés par des solutions plus économiques. D’un autre côté, les clients sont parfois déchirés entre une solution plus économique et le désir de conserver le concept lauréat inchangé. Ainsi, cette présentation expose, dans un premier temps, les enjeux qui existent dans l’application du processus d’analyse de la valeur sur des projets issus de concours architecturaux. Dans un deuxième temps, elle présente des solutions pour assurer une application de l’analyse de la valeur réussie dans ce contexte. La présentation est supportée par l’étude de cas du projet de rénovation majeure de l’Insectarium de Montréal. Cela du point de vue de la chargée de projet, représentant du client.
A rural Alberta public school jurisdiction's experience of Value Scoping for the Redevelopment of Schools. A partnering process to focus the Project Team in a creative environment on defining project requirements, while balancing goals and objectives within available resources for the entire project scope.
The use of the VA Methodology led the multidisciplinary team of the LRT Pie-IX construction project, in Montreal, to review the prototype of the entrance building provided for in the project. The main challenge of this project is the large number of stakeholders with different interests and fields of expertise. First, the use of a functional model allowed the multidisciplinary team to see the project in a different way and to define in simple and concise language the objectives and needs to be met. This approach, which favored creativity, made it possible to separate essential needs from wishes or desires.
The rigorous application of the method made it possible to question several of the needs of the project. It was at the heart of the discussions of the multidisciplinary team and made it possible to identify alternatives and avenues of savings totaling nearly 30% of the direct costs, of the thirty entrance buildings still to be built on the project for the Montreal portion of SRB Pie-IX.
The presentation explains the value analysis methodology, how it is done and when it can be used to identify alternatives in a project. The LRT Pie-IX project results give a good example of the power of the methodology.
Alberta's departments of Education and Infrastructure have undertaken 20 Value Analysis processes in order to gain insight into the nature of the needs and challenges as well as reach a consensus on the scope of the project to be submitted for provincial funding. The work with a broad range of stakeholders enabled the establishment of the priority order for the needs, identification of creative solutions, cost estimates of options, risk analysis and determination of value for the public investment. In addition, the local involvement resulted in a “buy-in” into the scope of the project and avoided cost escalation during the planning design and construction stages.
The presentation focuses on processes and outcomes associated with the implementation of Value Analysis in Alberta Schools. It also uses examples to illustrate the type of projects and circumstances under which such process may be successful.
Value analysis has been applied to numerous construction projects over the past years and often considered as a cost-cutting or quality reducing exercise that imposes limits on the design team and the owner of any given construction projects. Value analysis is beyond just a process of identifying and solving problems. In construction it can be used as tool or process to optimize the functions of a project, and for example achieve a better built environment aligned with sustainable standards and principles.
This publication relfects the advice of an expert panel to the Minister of Alberta Infrastructure on sustainable school buildings. The report discusses holistic design including life cycle costing, green building design, leed, and value management. The report recommends that the Alberta government establish a systematic process for ensuring appropriate value of school building projects through the use of the value management, value analysis, value engineering process on school buildings.
Discusses using Uniformat II to develop cost esimates for the information phase and using Uniformat in a VE study at any building project phase. Uniformat is an elemental cost summary system.