Value Engineering

Value engineering is typically used as a cost-reduction exercise within the data center industry. The typical execution of value engineering activities in most organizations is a systematic series of meetings in which design requirements are flogged unmercifully to wring out all “excess” cost. Then, once all interested parties agree that no more dollars can be shaken out, the search for a site begins. This round-peg-in-a-square-hole approach may please the finance department, but it typically results in the construction of a facility that does not possess the capabilities to adequately support existing requirements or future growth.