The best time to engage with Value Assurance is at the delivery of your design development drawings. You can engage later, but some savings can be lost if your project is on a strict timeline, and we bet it is!

You do. The VA team provides an estimate, based on thousands of data points, of your net savings (savings minus redesign costs), which you can use as a basis to confirm with your construction team. Final net savings are determined by the amount you and your contractor agree the project will save.

Nothing on net. Value Assurance fees are outcome-based and guaranteed: if the net savings you certify with your contractor don't exceed the fee, we refund the difference dollar-for-dollar.

Our process is collaborative, and many of our recommendations simplify work for design and construction teams.

We always find savings. It's up to you whether to pursue them. Our fees are outcome-based, and you don't get charged for savings you don't pursue or realize.

That's great. Value Assurance targets savings often overlooked by design and construction teams, and does not focus on typical material substitutions, scope reductions, or specification downgrades (all of which we understand: project budgets are under extreme pressure). Instead, the review examines the design decisions themselves: construction type classifications, code compliance pathways, structural approaches, system configurations, and assembly compositions, asking whether the same outcome can be achieved through a fundamentally different, less costly path. Value Assurance doesn't compete with value engineering. It completes it.