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Jan 2024
5m 17s

Value Engineering in 2024

Victor Menasce
About this episode

On today’s show we are talking about value engineering. This episode came from a conversation that we were having internally on one of our projects. The thought process comes down to evaluating multiple ways of accomplishing the same outcome before you know which optimizations make the most sense. 

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Host: Victor Menasce

email: podcast@victorjm.com

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