Consideration on efficient utilization of design VE in public works

• Published in: Journal of Construction Management, JSCE Vol. 14; pp. 207 - 214
• Main Author: Ito, Hiroyuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan Society of Civil Engineers 2007
• ISSN: 1884-8311; 1884-8311
• DOI: 10.2208/procm.14.207

Because the functions, the strength, the safety in use and the cost for construction and maintenance of public works is subject to the design of those, ensuring quality of design is very important to ensure the quality of public works. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport instructed to apply the design VE, which obtained many good results in various fields, as the efficient method for reduction of the cost, securing the necessary functions of public works, and National Institute for Infrastructure Management has made efforts to provide technical information such as a guideline for design VE in public works. But design VE has not been spread enough in work offices. In this paper, the essential reasons for design VE not to be popular are examined from the view points of the characteristics of abilities and organizations of the owners, and the policies for utilization of design VE in order to ensure design quality, composed of specifying the items the owner should examine subjectively, promotion of participation of private engineers and establishment of database on which different owners can mutually use the results of design VE, are proposed.