Value Engineering and Constructability Assessment Relating Infrastructure Projects

Abstract

Abstract Construction projects, especially infrastructure projects, are considered as the most important interests of countries, due to their direct effects on economy, countries development, and all life’s aspects. Accordingly, many technologies and programs have been developed trying to control projects in terms of costs, time of implementation, and the outputs quality. Among the best practices that have proven successful in this area are constructability and value engineering. In this research infrastructure projects in Iraq were assessed, and found that those projects suffer from failure on several fronts, because they are implemented using traditional methods which lead to a significant waste in resources. A model based on the concepts of constructability and value engineering is proposed and applied to project phases, including the operation & maintenance phases. Results show that applying the suggested model lead to saving time, cost and improving the required quality of materials and work, by taking advantage of experience of all project’s partners involved in the project.