HVAC Value Engineering

Value Engineering: A Win-Win Team Approach
Pure and simple, Value Engineering is about reducing costs through streamlined, reliable designs. A win-win for building owners – and the entire team – the Wiegmann VE approach reduces construction costs now, generates energy and maintenance savings over the building’s entire life cycle.
Why Wiegmann VE?
- People: Experts in innovation, our sophisticated HVAC design group features at least three times as many professional engineers than most of our competitors.
- Streamline: We replace elements that waste energy, or add expense without adding value, with solutions that maintain or enhance design function.
- The Ripple Effect: Efficiently designed HVAC systems require less equipment, ductwork and piping, which in turn requires less structural support and electrical systems, expanding cost savings.
- Reduce First Costs: Our buyer relationships with national manufacturers save 10-20% or more on HVAC equipment, which we pass along to the project.
- Technology: We use AutoCAD, Revit and other technologies to create 3-D models of HVAC systems. Our team can participate in, or lead, the BIM process for any project.
- Team Approach: Wiegmann collaborates with the entire project team to meet our mutual goal – providing clients with quality, cost effective and energy-efficient systems.
Whether we Value Engineer or Design/Build the project, our involvement early-on leads to the greatest cost savings.
Wiegmann is super-creative and innovative. They can value engineer an entire system that saves the owner money and is much more efficient. That’s a skill not everyone possesses.
Nathan Addison – Catamount Constructors, Inc.
VE Project Spotlight
SCI Phoenix: State Correctional Facility
- Bid based on 60% drawings – $36 million
- Wiegmann became EOR and VE’d – $31 million
NARA St. Louis: Archives and Records Storage Facility
- Bid based on 100% drawings – $16 million
- Wiegmann worked with EOR and VE’d – $12 million
Ripple Effect: VE Designs Cut Costs
- Ductwork: 30%-50% less
- Pipe: 10%-30% less
- Equipment: 20%-50% less
- Reduced electrical/structural impacts
*Compared to average plan/spec projects