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Originally Posted by Ant131531
Value engineered. Basically when they redesign a project in order to fit a smaller budget....basically making a project look cheaper and worse than before.
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It's more when they tweak the design to fit into the actual budget, not a smaller one. The vast majority of the renders we see publicly at the start of the project are just high level concepts. The programing of the building hasn't been completed yet and there's not enough of a schematic package to even send to contractors for bidding and pricing. Architects can dream all day long and design the most attractive things ever, but if it's can't be engineered, constructed, or financed, it'll never get built.
I've worked on projects where the interior architects had these really cool design elements with sharp edges, but the contractors nixed them because they weren't constructable. A lot of what we see is from architects who have never actually designed something that's been built. They're concept architects, that's all.
With VE, we need to take the concept design and get it inline with our budget. This includes tweaking the interior layout. It looks like the original design had penthouse units up top, or large amenity space. Either way, as they were doing the schematic designs the programing /unit mix changed and they opted for a more standard layout on the top two floors.
Some of the other elements were nixed because of construction costs and the limited impact of that reduction.
Bottom line, the early renderings that are publicly shown are never going to be built because they aren't final designs just concepts.
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