PROFESSOR STEVEN MALEProfessor of Property and Infrastructure Asset Management.

School of Civil EngineeringUniversity of Leeds

BRIEF PROFILE

Professor Steven Male, Institute for Resilient Infrastructure, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, is Professor of Property and Infrastructure Asset Management. He has secured in excess of £3m of research funding and has undertaken extensive industrial research and consultancy involving knowledge and technology transfer. He has conducted in excess of 150 value management, risk management and project audit studies. Steven co-authored th first text on Value Management in the UK and subsequently undertook an international benchmarking study into Value Management, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. In 2004 he and colleagues Professor John Kelly, and practitioner Drummond Graham, brought together their 20 years of experience in conducting research and consultancy in Value Management into a text book published by Blackwell Science,

During 2004-05 Steven led a team to develop a National Asset Management Framework for the Environment Agency’s £23bn replacement value asset base and associated £300-400m/annum capital programme. During 2005-2006 Steven led a team to undertake the UK Office of Government Commerce’s (OGC) research project to investigate improving asset management of the £220bn central civil government estate, and with a team from the School completed a study in 2008 / 09 for the OGC and Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment to investigate capacity, capability and skills in the procurement of major construction programmes and projects across the public sector, with specific reference to central government. Steven has been a National Council member, and is currently a member of Faculty, Institute for Asset Management. He was a member of the Project Board to develop the latest version of BSi PAS55 Physical Asset Management.

Steven is currently co-leading an organisational capability programme in London Underground (LU) for their recently launched Project Management Framework. He has researched, designed and is currently delivering a workshop based training programme covering some 600 senior and middle management personnel across the LU business.

PROFESSOR STEVEN MALEProfessor of Property and Infrastructure Asset Management.

School of Civil EngineeringUniversity of Leeds

Value Management Seminar

Outside of the manufacturing sectors of industry, Value Management is principally seen as a project-focused methodology. Value Engineering, as a subset of Value Management, is also aligned to project-related situations. Value Management focuses on the decision to invest, establishing requirements, and scope, and ensuring that the investment or ‘business’ project is defined and delivered appropriately from the outset. Value Management is much more radical is its approach to projects. The focus of Value Engineering is ensuring that the technical solution or technical options in a project meet the investment decision, the requirements and scope of the project. Value engineering focuses on aligning the appropriate ‘technical project’ to meet the investment or business project. Value engineering is much more concerned with incremental improvements to technical solutions and options in projects.

The seminar will highlight how Value Management and value Engineering have been used on projects, and will contrast this with examples of how it has been used to set up asset management frameworks within government agency and across central government. It will also highlight how Value Management has been used on Programmes of Projects.