Skip to Main Content

HVAC Value Engineering

value engineering cad

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?

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

 

Affiliations

badge for Select Top Subcontractor 2024 award
partner logo stating ISNETWorld Ravs Plus Participant
text logo for Global Gold Chain Alliance with Proud Member label
blue and yellow Controlled Environment Building Association logo with proud member text label
blue and gray text logo Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 with pipe image
blue text logo Sheet Metal Workers Local Union #36
blue and yellow Teamsters Local 682 with lion crest