answers to the following questions in only a paragraph or two no need for more.

1-Name your favorite building or bridge, and then write two sentences about the project using passive verbs and pronouns. Now write two or three sentences about your favorite building or bridge using active verbs and measurable nouns.

2-Facility programming has been “succinctly stating the criteria for design.” How is programming similar to the application of “Occam’s razor?”

3-Select the most creative construction project (one project) of the entire 19th or 20th centuries and describe why it had either the most innovative materials and equipment, or the most innovative processes. Did the project advance the vocation of construction?

4-Describe functional spaces of three commercial and institutional blocks along an New Jersey boardwalk. By what standards (hint: include ergonomic standards in the mix) can one measure the Boardwalk block spaces for a VE study-in-progress?

5-Cost models in Value Engineering are ultimately designed to compare functional cost versus functional worth. Give one business example of a product, project or service where the functional worth is far higher than the functional cost; and then provide a second example where the functional worth is much lower than the functional cost.

6-In your Discussion Board post, define tare, net and gross weights of an on-road tandem dump truck used for soils, sand and rock haulage. Given these figures, what would be the likely “efficiency” of a Peterbilt or Mack dump truck? Is this ratio-derived percentage similar to the efficiency of buildings?

7-Philadelphia is considered one of the more multi-modal transportation cities in North America. But you have traveled in Europe and Asia and know — in your position as Transportation Tsar for the tri-state area — that much more can be done. What key issues would you ask your Value Analysis Team to consider?

8-What important graphic (chart, graph, statistical data, cost model, johari’s window, etc.) from your project’s value analysis/facility program will be the most compelling to decision-makers? Post your graphic or include a link, and explain in your post the manner in which this illustration and/or information is convincing and vital for your project recommendations.