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Symbius Value Engineering for Homebuilding
Expedited Solutions for Improved Product Design

Increased Understanding • Reduced Risks • Greater Agility • Enhanced Business Performance

One of the biggest challenges homebuilders face is in building a product that combines the best design ideas and still has manageable costs of construction. Many builders do not have a formal process for fine-tuning plans that prioritizes high value opportunities/plans and helps achieve cost reduction targets.

There are a number of reasons why homebuilders may be expending extra cost and extra effort than they should to get product built:

  • Typical construction schedules are compressed, leaving little time to engineer the product for cost and construction efficiency
  • Changes are not accepted by all parties, because finding improvements is often an individual, rather than a team, endeavor
  • Changes don't get documented properly, so valuable opportunities are not communicated to the field
  • A general feeling that taking out cost means "cheapening" the product
  • Waste in the construction process often goes unnoticed and unchecked
  • No time to re-visit existing product once the plans are finalized

The Symbius approach relies on a proven methodology to drive out waste and reduce cost of new and existing product designs by reviewing:

  • Architectural plans
  • Structural plans
  • Mechanical plans
  • Product selections
  • Option selections

Our approach includes facilitated meetings with major trades and consultants (architect, structural engineer, etc.), as part of a rapid, yet thorough and effective, process focused on waste and cost reduction.

Value Engineering benefits include:

  • Consistent, Proven Process: helps prioritize high value opportunities/plans and achieve cost reduction targets
  • Tap Into The Collective Knowledge of your Partners: derive more value than even the best internal team can do alone
  • Improved Product Development: Get the right people involved in the product design when they need to get involved (PAs, sales, warranty, etc.), and do it early enough to ensure adequate time and resources are devoted and ensure changes actually happen.

We have used Value Engineering to quickly uncover hidden costs in product designs and to identify thousands of dollars of savings per plan. Symbius can do this for your organization. With Symbius' Value Engineering methodology you can:

  • Identify significant cost savings opportunities in product design
  • Reduce cycle time and improve the constructability of new products

Service Offerings

Meeting Facilitation
Opportunity Identification
Savings Measurement