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district engineer for the Federal Highway Administration’s District B, the federal government requires only that states have a value engineering process. “It does not require them to apply it to every highway project.”
But even though it is not a requirement, value engineering is applied to “every project we have. . .at all levels,” said Mr. Phillips. It is separate from the studies done in conjunction with VDOTs workshops and is not a formal procedure but occurs at “certain built-in stages” of “the scoping process, the conceptual process,” and other steps in the development of a highway project, he explained. This on-going value engineering isn’t done by a special team of VDOT engineers but rather involves “people who have been schooled in the value engineering process,” Mr. Phillips said.
Addressing the Rt. 211 study, the Federal Highway Administration’s district engineer said that VDOTs teams conducting workshop exercises “take a project out of context.” In this instance, he said, the team did not take into consideration that under the Code of Virginia regulations, 211 is part of the state’s arterial system and thus elimination of the parallel lanes would be precluded. “They were not privy to that,” Mr. Kirk added.
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