Three Ways to Put the Value Back in Value Engineering

Elizabeth Heider, FAIA, LEED Fellow, is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Skanska USA, serves on the Management Team of Skanska USA and supports Skanska’s four U.S. business units: Building and Civil (construction), Commercial and Infrastructure Development (with combined annual revenues of about $7 billion). She currently serves on the Envision Review Board and has facilitated or participated in more than 100 value engineering workshops.

Emma Stewart, Ph.D., LEED AP, is a former executive at Autodesk who now runs business development for Autocase®, the first-ever TBL-CBA software to automate the business case for smarter, greener, healthier buildings and sites. She sits on the Board of the U.S. Green Building Council and teaches the subject of “Intrapreneurship” at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.