“when you're doing value engineering we'd spend 95% of the time talking about architecture”

Name: when you're doing value engineering we'd spend 95% of the time talking about architecture
Description: A designer's hard-won VE lesson: stop making architecture take the hit when M&E is half the budget — rigorous on the mechanical and structural side.

— Travis Rudolph · EllisDon Corporation

A designer's hard-won VE lesson: stop making architecture take the hit when M&E is half the budget — rigorous on the mechanical and structural side.

Full episode at 41:23 How EllisDon, Pomerleau & Bird De-Risk Projects: IPD and Early Contractor Involvement in Atlantic Canada ▸

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THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES

MEP can be half a project's budget but escapes scrutiny; rigor on systems, not just architecture, protects the vision.

“we'd spend 95% of the time talking about architecture and a 5% talking about structure mechanical electrical”

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THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN

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SOURCE: 41:23 of How EllisDon, Pomerleau & Bird De-Risk Projects: IPD and Early Contractor Involvement in Atlantic Canada