A Value Engineering Methodology for Low Income Housing Projects in Egypt

The construction industry is concerned with satisfying its customers’ needs through delivering projects that achieve their objectives and meet their expectations on time, within budget and as specified. Despite the several housing programmers constructed by government authorities, there is a real housing problem for the poor. This problem is attributed to a number of reasons. Amongst them, the inability of the low-incomers to cover the cost of supplied houses and the lack of the constructed projects to achieve users’ satisfaction. This highlighted the need to developing innovative and creative’s solution which may delivers housings projects which achieves the satisfactions of the user and at the most-costs effective manners simultaneously. This aims would be achieved by incorporating the concept of Value Engineering and Risks Managements in developing housing project for the poor. Towards these aims, the paper attempt to accomplish three main objectives. Firstly, review the historical developments of housing projects, the concepts of customer satisfaction, VE and RM in construction. Secondly, identifying the capabilities of VE and RM and the benefit for developing housings projects for the poor. Thirdly, presenting learn lesson extract from cases study of low-incomes housings project constructed by the governments of the Egypt. Finally, outlining these researches recommendation for government’s authorities, designs firm and constructions professional concern with housings project for all poor.