Key Responsibilities
1. Value Engineering & Cost Optimization
- Analyse design proposals to identify opportunities for cost reduction, material optimization, and efficiency improvement.
- Conduct structured VE workshops with design, MEP, faade, structure, interiors and contracting teams.
- Recommend alternative design solutions, materials substitutions and construction methodologies that reduce costs without affecting performance, durability or aesthetics.
- Develop repeatable VE frameworks and checklists for continuous improvement across project typologies.
Role Overview
cost optimization
2. Design Review & Efficiency Analysis
- Review architectural design, layouts, structural systems, MEP and Faade strategies to highlight cost-heavy components.
- Evaluate FSI utilization, efficiency ratios, unit planning, faade design, and services layouts.
- Ensure all design elements align with value, quality, sustainability and regulatory requirements.
- Identify design simplifications that improve constructability while maintaining architectural intent.
3. Cost & Quantity Assessment
- Prepare cost comparisons for various design options (faade systems, structural alternatives, material choices).
- Validate quantities with QS / PM teams, and ensuring accuracy and consistency with design with outputs.
- Maintain updated cost databases, benchmarking tools and VE tracking systems.
- Work with finance to align VE decisions with project proformas and feasibility assumptions.
4. Coordination With Multi-disciplinary Teams
o Architects for design optimisation and modularisation strategies
o Structural engineers for optimal structural schemes
o MEP consultants for coordinated and efficient services planning
o Project management teams for constructability and sequence based inputs
o Procurement for vendor alternative, value rated options and material availability
- Ensure VE decisions are actionable, practical and integrated across all consultants.
5. Evaluate Materials & Technology
- Benchmark and evaluate new materials, construction technology, and systems that offer performance or cost advantages.
- Evaluate alternatives based on performance data, lifecycle costing, lead time, sustainability, and maintenance impacts.
- Lead vendor discussions and technical evaluations for new solutions aligned with project needs.
6. Feasibility & Scenario Analysis
- Support BD / finance teams by providing cost-linked inputs for feasibility studies at early design stages.
- Run scenario based comparisons of design options (cost vs. efficiency vs. revenue).
- Support early massing and scheme optimisation to balance design ambition with commercial viability.
7. Reporting & Documentation
- Prepare VE reports, option comparison sheets, design review notes, and management presentations.
- Maintain VE dashboards, cost-saving trackers, and periodic management updates.
- Develop internal VE standards, templates, and knowledge repositories for the Design Lab.
- Ensure a transparent, structured, and data-driven VE process across all projects.
8. Digital & BIM-Integrated Value Engineering
- Use BIM models (Revit/Navisworks) and digital quantity extraction tools to analyse cost-impact areas with greater accuracy.
- Integrate 5D (cost) simulations to validate design alternatives and forecast cost implications in real time.
9. Data-Driven Decision Making & Analytics
- Build and maintain data dashboards that track material costs, design performance, market benchmarks, and VE savings across projects.
- Use data analytics/AI-assisted tools to identify design inefficiencies, cost trends, and early-stage optimisation opportunities.
- Introduce predictive modelling (e.g., cost escalation forecasts, lifecycle impact assessments) to support proactive decision-making.
10. Sustainability & Lifecycle Value Enhancement
- Integrate sustainability metrics into VE recommendations, evaluating embodied carbon, operational energy, durability, and maintenance cycles.
- Assess long-term lifecycle value, not just initial cost, to ensure solutions enhance asset performance over decades.
- Recommend new-age sustainable materials, prefabrication methods, and low-waste construction technologies.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Strong understanding of architectural design, structural systems, MEP integration, and faade engineering.
- Expertise in construction costing, BOQs, quantity take-off and rate benchmarking.
- Excellent command of DCR/DCPR, local building codes, and regulatory frameworks.
- Ability to balance cost, performance, aesthetics, constructability, and sustainability without compromise.
- High analytical capability; proficiency in Excel, cost-modelling tools, and BIM-based workflows.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented, process-driven, and capable of working in a fast-paced, multi-project environment.
Qualifications
• B.E./B. Tech in Civil Engineering OR
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) with strong technical & cost optimisation exposure
• Preferred: Masters in Construction Management / Project Management
• 12 +Experience in value engineering for real estate, large-scale developments, high-rise projects, or integrated design studios.
• Familiarity with BIM, parametric tools, and cost-engineering systems is an added advantage.
