Information Centre

Welcome to the Value Solutions Information Centre. Here you will be able to download and find links to a multitude of useful documents. Best of all, they are all FREE!

Feel free to use the links provided on your own website, all we ask is that if you do please provide a link to www.value-solutions.co.uk as well. We hope you find what you are looking for...

Downloads

In this section you can download a number of papers and documents written by either members of the Value Solutions staff or authors who have kindly given us permission to publish their material.

• Electronic Value Management (eVM): VM for the 21st Century!? 310k
• The Function Priority Matrix 369k
• Reappraising Value Methodologies in Construction for Achieving Best Value 316k
• Managing Value as a Management Style for Projects 295k

We would like to acknowledge and thank SAVE International and the authors for permission to publish the following four papers:

• An Etiological Explanation of WHEN Logic in Classic FAST 262k
• A Teleological Explanation of the Major Logic Path in Classic FAST 299k
• Paired Comparison: Why Tools and Techniques Fit within the Value Methodology 305k
• Value Engineering and Theories of the Firm 200k

Webcasts

In this section you can view webcasts on a number of management topics.

• Electronic Value Management (eVM): VM for the 21st Century!?

Links

In this section are a number of links to useful management documentation available FREE on the internet. Happy trawling!

Please note that Value Solutions Ltd is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (USA):

• Asset Management Guide
• Publications Download

Association of Local Authority Business Consultants (UK):

• Value Management in Construction

AuditNet (USA):

• Change Management Best Practices

Austroads (Australia):

• Asset Management Publications Download

Baekdal.com (Denmark):

• Change Management Handbook

BEACON (UK):

• Asset Management in Local Government Downloads

British Columbia Ministry of Finance (Canada):

• Capital Asset Management Framework

Cambridgeshire County Council (UK):

• Property and Asset Management Business Plan 2006/09

Canadian Society of Value Analysis (Canada):

• Conference Proceedings

CIRIA (UK):

• Researching Whole Life Value Methodologies for Construction

Cisco Systems (USA):

• Change Management: Best Practices White Paper

Cyril Sweett (UK):

• Bidding for PFI Projects - Client Access in the VM Process

Department of Defence (USA):

• Change Management Guiding Organizations through Transition

Department of Energy (USA):

• Value Management

Department of Public Works, Queensland (Australia):

• Value Management Studies and Facilitated Workshops

Department of the Navy (USA):

• Benchmarking Handbook: A Systems View

Environmental Protection Agency (USA):

• Asset Management Handbook for Small Water Systems

Federal Highway Administration (USA):

• Asset Management Primer

Federal Real Property Council (USA):

• Guidance for Improved Asset Management

Florida Department of Transport (USA):

• Value Engineering Program

Governmental Accounting Standards Board (USA):

• Asset Management

Griffith University (Australia):

• Strategic Asset Management Plan 2005 to 2008

Health and Safety Executive (UK):

• An Asset Management Model for UK Railway Safety

HM Treasury - Central Unit on Procurement (UK):

• No. 35 Life Cycle Costing
• No. 43 Project Evaluation
• No. 54 Value Management

Hong Kong Institute of Value Management (Hong Kong):

• The Value Manager

InfoMine (USA):

• State of the Art Review Value Engineering

Institute of Asset Management (UK):

• Publications Download

Institute of Risk Management (UK):

• Risk Management Standard

Institute of Value Management (Australia):

• Publications Download

International Conference on Spatial Information for Sustainable Development (Kenya):

• Value Management an Optimum Solution

Lawrence D. Miles Value Engineering Reference Centre (USA):

• Papers Collection
• Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering

Maxwell-Gunter AFB (USA):

• Management Benchmark Study including Decision Analysis and Change Management

NASA (USA):

• Systems Engineering Handbook

New Mexico Department of Transportation (USA):

• Value Engineering
• Value Engineering Procedures Handbook

New South Wales Treasury (Australia):

• Total Asset Management Manual

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (USA):

• Benchmarking from A to Z

Office of Engineering and Construction Management (USA):

• Value Management

Office of Government Commerce (UK):

• Improving Asset Management in Government Departments
• Improving Performance
• Improving Property Asset Management in the Government Estate
• Managing Risks with Delivery Partners
• Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model
• Procurement Guide - Risk and Value Management
• Procurement Guide - Whole Life Costing
• Routemap to Property Asset Management Excellence
• Successful Delivery Pocket Book
• Successful Delivery Skills
• Successful Delivery Tool Kit - Risk Management
• Supply Chain Management in the Public Sector Procurement
• The Gateway Process - Overview
• The Gateway Process - A Manager's Checklist
• The Gateway Process - 0. Strategic Assessment
• The Gateway Process - 1. Business Justification
• The Gateway Process - 2. Procurement Strategy
• The Gateway Process - 3. Investment Decision
• The Gateway Process - 4. Readiness for Service
• The Gateway Process - 5. Benefits Evaluation
• Value Management in Construction - Case Studies

Our South West (UK):

• Managing Change

Program Management Group (UK):

• Successfully Integrating Value and Project Management

Province of Manitoba (Canada):

• Executive Summary of a Value Engineering Study

Rural Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program (USA):

• A Guide to Implementation and Benchmarking for Rural Communities

SAVE International (USA):

• Conference Proceedings
• Value Methodology Standard

ServQ (UK):

• Knowledge Base

State Government of Australia (Australia):

• Capital Development Guidelines - Value Management

University of Reading - Stuart Green (UK):

• A SMART Methodology for Value Management
• New Directions in Value Management

University of Queensland (Australia):

• Change Management and Communication Plan

Wertanalyse (Germany):

• Value Management links on the internet

West Virginia Department of Transportation (USA):

• Value Engineering Manual