Minutes of the 65th IEC Meeting  TF-VE
Appendix XIX [PCTA Item 6.3]
Minutes of the 3rd Meeting of the
TASK FORCE ON VALUE ENGINEERING (TF-VE)
18 September 2014: 09:00-10:30 hours
Gwangju, South Korea
Strategy Theme: Knowledge
Year of Establishment: 2012
Completion of the Mandate: 2015
Mandate: The objective of the Task Force (TF) would be to promote the application of Value Methodology (Value
Engineering, Value Analysis, Value Planning, Value Management and Value Engineering Change Proposal (VECP))
in irrigation, drainage and flood management projects to increase benefits, reduce cost and ensure sustainable
irrigated agriculture.
Terms of Reference (ToR)
1.
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4.
Develop a Website on application of Value Engineering in Irrigation and Drainage projects
Produce a Documentary on application of Value Engineering in Irrigation and Drainage projects
Organize workshops and seminars on application of Value Engineering in Irrigation and Drainage projects
Prepare a Manual on application of Value Engineering in Irrigation and Drainage projects
Members Present: (1) Dr. Kamran Emami, Chairman, 2013 (Iran, 2012) and (2) Ir. Nor Hisham M. Ghazali,
Secretary, (Malaysia, 2013); and (3) Dr. Vijay K. Labhsetwar, Director, ICID Central Office.
Officer-Bearers Hon: VPH Dr. Hafied Gany (Indonesia).
Observers: (i) Ir. Enayatolah Farahani (Iran); (ii) Ir. Mostfa Vatabzadeh (Iran); (iii) Ir. Moito Azimi Ismail (Malaysia);
(iv) Ir.Noorhoa Mokhtar Manoa Imoa (Malaysia); (v) Ir. Hussein El-Gammal (Egypt); (vi) Mohd. Azmi Ismail
(Malaysia); (vii) Ir. Nooraida Mokhtar (Malaysia); (viii) Mrs. Zahlah Selamat (Malaysia); (ix) Dr. Toshihik Kuno
(Japan); and (x) Mr. Suman Sijapati (Nepal).
Website: http://tf-ve.icidonline.org/
TF-VE Minutes Item 1:
Action Taken Report by Chair
1. The Chairman Dr. Kamran Emami (Iran) circulated statistics of savings in US Land Highway Programme 19972012:
(a)
Examples of application of VE on US Army Corp of Engineers projects were presented. It was mentioned
that with 50 years of experience in VE and a number of cases with saving from $ 1m to $ 61 m and (2%
to 65% of the project cost.). Dr. Emami mentioned that the total saving of VE in Corps of Engineers was
more than $ 5.3 Billion and 7000 engineers and managers attended VE training course in U.S. Army Corp.
of Engineers.
(b)
VE resulted in a total saving of US$ 23 billion from projects worth US$ 374 billion.
(c)
All in all, for each US$ 1 spent in value, US$ 150 saving achieved on project.
(d)
A Value Story (example of VE in practice) video was shown to illustrate the concept of VE applied for a
small household project (heat / fire detection equipment).
(e)
DVD on VE was distributed.
TF-VE Minutes Item 2:
Membership of the Task Force
2. Dr. Toshihiko Kuno (Agriculture) has been nominated by the Japanese National Committee of ICID (JNC-ICID)
and his membership was accepted by the TF-VE. Mr. Suman Sijapati (Nepal) has been nominated by Nepal National
Committee of ICID (NENCID) and his membership was accepted by the TF-VE.
TF-VE Minutes Item 3:
Internal Workshop of TF-VE at Gwangju , Korea in 2014
3. An Internal Workshop of TF-VE titled “Value Engineering Applications” was held on 18 September 2014 at
Gwangju. The following presentations were made during the workshop:
(a)
Eng. Nor Hisham Mohd Ghazali (Malaysia) presented the Malaysian Experience in implementing Value
Management: “Implementing value management for a flood mitigation project – Malaysian experience”
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(b)
Dr. Toshihiko Kuno presented the practice of VE in Japan: “VE practice in Japan”
(c)
Dr. Kamran Emami and Ir. Saeed Pourshahidi from Iran presented a value engineering case study in
irrigation and drainage from Iran: “Value Engineering Change Proposal of Irrigation and Drainage
Networks in Ramhormoz - Iran”.
4. The Chairman proposed a Seminar/Workshop on ‘Value Engineering’ to be held in conjunction with the 26th
ERC in Montpellier, France in October 2015.
TF-VE Minutes Item 4:
Publication of the TF
5. The working group decided to finalize the Manual on Application of Value Engineering in Irrigation and Flood
Projects by the end of the tenure in 2015. The manual would include case studies on irrigation, drainage and flood
projects. Members were encouraged to contribute towards the draft of ‘Value engineering manual for irrigation and
drainage projects’. The Chairman suggested that where VE terms differ, those used by SAVE International should
be used to ensure consistency. The TF has revised its work plan as in Annex.
TF-VE Minutes Item 5:
Developing the Website
6. A number of documents and presentations on VE have already been uploaded on TF-website and the chairman
encouraged the members to submit more relevant documents. The working group has prepared a DVD on Value
Engineering as training material on VE with English subtitles. The DVDs have been distributed among all National
Committees. Hopefully, the DVD will be made available to the irrigation experts in the member countries.
TF-VE Minutes Item 6:
Any other Business
7. Some of the observer from Malaysia where VE studies are legal requirement, have asked the WG to organize
a workshop on Application of Value Engineering in Irrigation and Flood Projects in Malaysia. To a question from
Hj. Zalilah Selamat (Malaysia) on human resources (capacity) building in VE, the Chairman explained key
success criteria for value engineering program as:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
Experience
Expertise
Training
Support of senior management
Laws and regulation (imposing value engineering on projects based on a criteria)
Doing the VE studies on selected projects.
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Annex [Appendix XIX, Item 4]
TWO-YEAR WORK PLAN
Activity*
2014
2015
Publications
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Produce documentary
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Prepare Manual
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Workshop
Organize Workshop
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Develop website
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