These includine:

• Ongoing option reviews for cost reductions while keeping functions intact
• Working with design team to improve component/detail functions
• Reviews of building areas to ensure economic usage (area and volume savings can typically provide the largest levels of cost reductions without necessarily impacting function)
• Circulation area to net reviews    
• Volume checks
• Wall to floor ratio reviews
• Life cycle costing and material component comparisons
• Design option reviews
• Red/amber/green control spreadsheets for review of value engineering options with designers and client (used for brainstorming, highlighting costs, and confirming which value engineering options are no/potential/ok to implement)
• Mechanical and electrical design options and cost reviews with engineers and contractors
• Maximizing project value through selection of the right materials, details, and methodologies