Value Engineering Mastermind

Abstract

n my first book on value engineering, titled Value Engineering: Concepts, Techniques and Applications, published by Response Books, a division of SAGE India, I laid stress on creating a comprehensive reference book for preparing for the value engineering certification programmes. The book was meant to be jargon-free and to help demystify all the concepts required for a well-rounded understanding of value engineering (VE). But while practicing as a consultant and interacting with a wide range of VE professionals, industry specialists and first time enthusiasts, I realized that there was a need to make VE books more compact and user-friendly. Since time is a premium for all sections of society, I adopted a question and answer mode of information dissemination through this book. Each chapter has a brief write-up preceding the array of questions and answers. It is not important just to know the right answers, but also to know what the wrong options stand for. Just like all modern day management examinations have taught us, we also need to figure out what the wrong options mean and therein lies scope for comprehensive knowledge gathering. My suggestion to all the readers of this book is to pick up whichever chapter seems interesting and start from there; read the text and then work out the right answers for the questions. Obviously there is a fallback to see the correct answers at the end of the book. But my sincere request to all my readers is to explore what the wrong options also mean. I feel that in the modern day digitized world, compact reading materials will help ignite passion for a subject. And hence, I consider this book as a supplement for my first book me