10, 17, 24, 31 Jan 2018 People are engaged in cost reduction exercise in their everyday business and leisure. People may also spend a huge sum of money on something they like at first sight without evaluating the real needs and comparing with the function to...
24-25 Oct 2017 The word "KAKUSHIN" is a homophone which represents the following meanings: 革新 – Innovation 核心 – Essence, central issue 確信 – Confidence, faith These words truly reflect the purpose of this conference and our conference organizing committee is working hard to provide the conference attendees with an...
11-13 Aug 2017 In this present day, construction professionals should not only acquire technical knowledge, they must also develop various management skills to achieve project success. A number of formal documents (WTBC16/1998; Tang2001; WTBC35/2002) strongly recommend a wider adoption of VM techniques in order to achieve...
03 June 2017 Are you fed up with lengthy and non-productive meetings? Would you like to have constructive ideas generated in the meetings for resolving problems? This training workshop enables you to understand the role of facilitator and acquire the most useful facilitation skills for conducting workshops and...
20 April 2017 In workplaces, all healthy human relationships lead to outstanding performance, and establishing teamwork and partnership are core elements in facilitating Value Management. While there are fast growing demands for coaches and books on skills to build authentic, reliable and creative bonding among team...
10, 17, 24, 31 Jan 2018 The problems inherent with the traditional design-bid-build procurement method often lead to the adversarial working relationships within the construction industry. Target cost contracts, accompanied by a gain-share/pain-share arrangement serving as a cost incentive mechanism, have emerged in the United States,...
23 January 2017 The Government of HKSAR has adopted the New Engineering Contract (NEC) for more than 50 public works and civil engineering projects since 2009 and will continue to use NEC for projects called in 2016 / 2017. Although projects benefit from the use of...
13 December 2016 Date: 13 December 2016 (Tuesday) Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm Venue: Polytechnic University Staff Club Restaurant, 5/F Communal Building, Polytechnic, Kowloon ...
28-29 November 2016 Value Engineering (VE/VA/VM) is an internationally practiced methodology to achieve the required product, process, services & system at the minimum possible cost by analyzing their functions & life cycle cost. Today, VE needs to be imbibed with greater rigor than ever before to...
25-26 October 2016 The word “SAIKOH サイコウ“ in Japanese has various homophones meaning like “awesome” “restart” “reinvigorate” etc. This year SJVE Conference will feature the word “SAIKOH” which underpins the message of how to restart VE for those companies which used to apply VE well in the...