AGENDA 1) Practical Design 2) Manifestation of PD at WSDOT 3) Value Engineering as a tool for PD 4) Opportunities

3 CHOICES

4 DESIRED CONDITION Desired Condition

1 Practical Design

PRACTICAL What do you think it means to be practical? : relating to what is real (rather than possible or imagined) : likely to succeed (reasonable to do) : appropriate or suited for actual use real

silence is golden … duct tape is silver

define design : to plan and make decisions (for something to be built or created) : to plan and make (something) for a specific use or purpose DESIGN

epitome of design

Why Practical Design? Why Now? Haven’t we always been practical? How can we be more practical?

1)Demand Management 2)Systems Management (ops) 3)Capital project Multimodal Sustainable Collaborative FOCUS Problem Statement (NEED)

2 Manifestation of PD at WSDOT

5-r Practical Design / Concepts and Strategies These are all Urban Principal Arterials

Practical Design Policy What’s Changing and How? Context Classification System Context within Practical Design 16 From: Smart Transportation GuidebookFrom: Smart Transportation Guidebook; PennDOT and NJDOT. Example: New Jersey and Pennsylvania From: Smart Transportation GuidebookFrom: Smart Transportation Guidebook; PennDOT and NJDOT.

Bikes Pedestrians Transit Maintenance operations How you design for different users depends on context Designing for All Users

PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN

3 Value Engineering as a tool for Practical Design

VALUE STANDARD and BODY OF KNOWLEDGE V = F/$ V = F/$ Lowest Cost Solution.

Information Function Analysis – need Creative Evaluation Development Presentation JOB PLAN

Objective/Raison d’etre Problem Statement/Context Focus on the functions for the Purpose & Need for “today” IDEAS ! Focus on: Cost Reduction Ease of Implementation Focus on: Cost Reduction Ease of Implementation Describe Functions Performance Attributes Describe, Verify and Quantify IDEAS ! InformationFunction AnalysisCreativeEvaluateDevelopPresent Workshop Summary Folio Workshop Report Practical Design – Value Engineering

Project team to further develop Practical design recommendations and monitor and update facts as they emerge Plan For Practical Design Peer Review Practical Design (PD) using Value Engineering Methodology Performance Based design is replacing standards based design Assessment with Recommended Practical Design Innovations - Reduces Cost? - Easy to Implement? Evaluation 4 Problem Statement Context Information 1 Can needs be addressed with: Demand management or system management Function Analysis 2 Creative 3 Develop 5 Presentation 6 Pre- Workshop Post Workshop VE Activity Practical Design Activity # L EGEND Flow Chart Perform Pre- Study Activities Develop Idea? YES Design Consideration NO Monitor and Update/Incorporate PD recommendations in accordance with future Risk/VE Workshop Practical Design Peer Review Team Participates in pre-workshop activities though Workshop completion. Project Team Monitors, implements and controls project Updates and follow up activities. Summarize in Folio Report Implement Approved Recommendations

24 What’s practical? What is “the right thing”? What’s practical? What is “the right thing”? GLASS AGLASS B Pure “container”“container” + “support”

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