The Study Of Value Engineering Applications In The Entire Life-cycle Cost Management

The entire life-cycle cost management is a method which to realize the whole cost minimum in the entire life cycle of the engineering project, the entire life cycle including construction prophase, construction phase, usage phase and the reject phase, ect. It synthesized consider the construction cost and the maintenance cost(usage cost), sequentially realize the scientific construction design and select the reasonable architecture material, so that, at the premise of ensuring the quality of design, realize the target which can reduce the entire life cycle cost of the project. The entire life cycle cost management is used not only in the stage of cost confirm but also in the stage of cost control of the engineering project.Value Engineering being called Value Analysis again, is a thought method and a managerial technique which collaborate with each related field, scientific analyze the function and cost of the research object, innovate continuously, aim to increase the value of the research object. Its purpose is to realize dependably the function that the user need, with the lowest life cycle cost of the object, to obtain the optimal synthetic benefit. Being a kind of advanced management thought and methodology, VE has been generalized and applied extensively in the government department and enterprise around the world since it come into being the 40's of last century. Because of the characteristic of the big amount of investment and saving much cost, architecture industry has been the pop profession which the VE has been applied and studied abroad. But in our country, the application of VE in architecture industry has been the primary stage, the main field of application has concentrated on a few profession such as manufacturing of machine and equipment, ect. The application of VE in architecture industry hasn't been taken into account in our country, we have the considerable margin when compared with the international advanced level, regardless of the aspect of theories or the aspect of application.VE applications in the entire life-cycle cost management of engineering project, first make sure of the characteristic of the engineering project, ensure the value target on the basis of the project characteristic, and then consider the whole project as ainteger or a system, analyze the entire life-cycle of the system which can be divided into several phases, ensure the work which will be finished in each phase, confirm the object of value analysis in each phase, afterwards, analyze and evaluate the function of the research object, at last advance the innovated plan and optimization. Finally the activity of VE is to summarize and evaluate the situation of the optimal plan, including economic benefit evaluation of enterprise and social effect evaluation.