Service life planning facilitates the making of well-informed decisions regarding value engineering, cost planning, maintenance planning, and environmental impact.
The winning bidder will be responsible for cost estimates, ensuring the project remains within budget, value engineering, construction scheduling and coordination with the architect.
The advantages to partnering are often considered to be the early involvement of the contractor and specialist sub-contractors which can result in cost savings through value engineering.
Changes can be the result of necessary design modifications, differing site conditions, material availability, contractor-requested changes, value engineering and impacts from third parties, to name a few.
