"Value Engineering". What a lovely 'management' expression. I believe it means 'cost-cutting'.
Imagine if Sir Christopher Wren had employed it, or Brunel, or 'The Lighthouse Stevenson's, or Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker, Barry and Pugin, and the folk who designed and built Stonehenge, The Pyramids, The Empire State Building, Concorde, The Vickers VC10, QE2, Saturn V Rocket and a thousand other things.
Just imagine how "value engineering" would have impacted on global tourism.
I recently visited a local £20m building project. The concept of a glass ceiling in a corridor which lead to the main part of the project was removed due to "value engineering".
The corridor now has to be illuminated H24, 365 days per year, using electricity we can barely afford to produce, sold to the project's 2 owners who allegedly care about the environment.
Last edited by ZOOKER; 29th Dec 2013 at 19:28.