Nature of your organization

Contractor (Type G6)

13.7%

Contractor (Type G7)

23

45.1%

Quantity Surveyor Firm

21

41.2%

Specify your designation in the company

Director

11

21.6%

Manager

7.8%

Project Manager

2%

Quantity Surveyor

21

41.2%

Other

14

27.5%

Working experience in construction field

Less than 5 years

21

41.2%

6 to 10 years

5.9%

11 to 15 years

11.8%

16 to 20 years

17.6%

12

23.5%

more than 20 years

Part B : Value Management

1. Do you know what is value management ?

Yes

32

62.7%

No

11.8%

13

25.5%

Not sure

2. Value Management means

Proactive, creative, problem-solving or problems seeking services which maximises

the functional value of a project by managing its development from concept to use.

24

75%

Proactive, or problem seeking services which minimises the functional value of a

project by managing its development from the concept to use.

9.4%

Cut cost for the entire project

3.1%

Value techniques applied during the planning phases of a porject

12.5%

Value techniques applied retrospectively to completed projects to analyse or audit the

project performance

0%

3. Are you familiar with the value management procedure?

Yes

15

46.9%

No

10

31.3%

21.9%

Not sure

4. What are the procedure of value management ?

Pre-workshop, Information, Creativity, Evaluation, Development, Action planning,

Workshop report and Implementation

66.7%

Pre-workshop, Information, Evaluation, Action Planning and Implementation

16.7%

Pre-workshop, Information, Function Analysis, Presentation and Implementation

8.3%

Information, Creativity, Evaluation, Development, Action Planning, Presentation,

Workshop report and Implementation

8.3%

5. Life-cycle costing is applied in which process?

Pre-workshop

8.3%

Information

0%

Creativity

0%

Workshop report

8.3%

Implementation

0%

Development

50%

Action Planning

16.7%

Presentation

0%

Evalution

16.7%

Other

0%

6. What do you think about the value management procedure?

Very complicated

13.3%

Complicated

40%

Neutral

46.7%

Simple

0%

Very simple

0%

7. Do you think that value management procedure should be consolidated ?

Strongly Disagree

6.7%

Disagree

6.7%

Neutral

53.3%

Agree

33.3%

Strongly Agree

0%

8. Have you ever been involved in the practice of value management ?

Yes

14

43.8%

No

18

56.3%

9. In what kind of project does your company apply value management ?

Big Project ( RM 10,000,000 and above)

10

71.4%

Medium Project (RM5,000,000 - RM 10,000,000)

21.4%

Small Project ( RM 5,000,000 and below)

7.1%

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10. What type of construction that your company employs the use of value
management ?

Office Building

42.9%

School

0%

Infrastructure Project (example : MRT)

7.1%

Condominium

7.1%

Terrace House

21.4%

Other

21.4%

11. Do you know that value management has been applied in the
construction industry?

Yes

26.3%

No

14

73.7%

12. Will you attend seminar about value management ?

Yes

32

62.7%

No

12

23.5%

13.7%

Not sure

13. Why yes?

Easily adapt value management when you involve in value management

15.6%

19

59.4%

Get some knowledge

21.9%

Other

3.1%

Get to know more about value management

14. Why not or not sure ?

Waste time

15.4%

Waste money

3.8%

Busy for work

14

53.8%

26.9%

Other

Introduction To Electronic Value Management (EVM):

Part C : Electronic Value Management (EVM)
15. Nowadays, information and communication technology (ICT) is
common. Do you know there is new technology for value management?

Yes

9.8%

No

32

62.7%

Not sure

14

27.5%

16. What are the new technologies that you are aware of?
Electronic Value Management

40%

Cost Estimation Software

100%

Life-Cycle Costing Software

80%

Other

20%

17. Are you aware of electronic value management (EVM) in the

construction industry?

Yes

17.6%

No

33

64.7%

17.6%

Not sure

18. How did you know about EVM?

Online Journal

66.7%

Book

0%

Friends

0%

Newspaper

0%

Conference

11.1%

Seminar

0%

Other

22.2%

19. Do you know that EVM does not need professional studies compare to
VM?

Yes

5.9%

No

34

66.7%

Not sure

14

27.5%

20. If there is an EVM training course, will you attend the training course?

Yes

33

64.7%

No

15.7%

10

19.6%

Not sure

21. If you would like to train your staff on knowing more about EVM, which
method would you prefer?
In-house training

21

41.2%

On-the job training

27

52.9%

Off-the job training

13.7%

13

25.5%

0%

Online training
Other

22. How much will your company allocate per person for the EVM training?

RM1,000 and above

15.7%

RM 500 to RM 999

17

33.3%

RM 499 and below

26

51%

23. Do you know that EVM procedure is a process which uses electronic
devices/software almost throughout the process, i.e. digitizing the value
management process

Yes

11

21.6%

No

24

47.1%

Not sure

16

31.4%

24. Do you know that there is some difference between VM procedure and
EVM procedure?

Yes

15.7%

No

25

49%

Not sure

18

35.3%

25. What is the difference between VM procedure and EVM procedure?

For brainstorming process, VM team members still need to have meeting face-to-face
while EVM is now using Skype to have meeting with team members.

75%

VM procedure need 9days to complete the whole project while EVM procedure need 6
or 7 days to complete the project

0%

VM procedure have time constraint while EVM does not have time constraint

25%

Other

0%

26. Do you think that EVM procedure is better than the traditional value
management procedure?

Yes

62.5%

No

0%

Not sure

37.5%

27. Why yes?

Saving cost on the project

60%

Time efficient to complete the project

20%

Other

20%

28. Why no or not sure ?

Wasting time to go for training

25%

Wasting money to buy software

25%

Other

50%

29. In your opinion, if EVM is introduced in Malaysia, will you rather use
EVM than the traditional method of value management?

Yes

20

41.7%

No

16.7%

20

41.7%

Not sure

EVM is more cost saving than VM [30. Why do you think EVM process is
better than VM process ? ]
Strongly Disagree

2%

Disagree

3.9%

Neutral

26

51%

Agree

21

41.2%

2%

Strongly Agree

EVM requires organizational learning skills [30. Why do you think EVM
process is better than VM process ? ]
Strongly Disagree

3.9%

Disagree

9.8%

Neutral

22

43.1%

Agree

22

43.1%

0%

Strongly Agree

EVM will reduce more wastage of resources compare to VM [30. Why do

you think EVM process is better than VM process ? ]
Strongly Disagree

2%

Disagree

2%

Neutral

23

45.1%

Agree

22

43.1%

7.8%

Strongly Agree

EVM process is faster than VM process [30. Why do you think EVM
process is better than VM process ? ]
Strongly Disagree

0%

Disagree

2%

Neutral

20

39.2%

Agree

23

45.1%

13.7%

Strongly Agree

EVM allows easy communicate with team members or clients compared to

VM [30. Why do you think EVM process is better than VM process ? ]
Strongly Disagree

0%

Disagree

7.8%

Neutral

23

45.1%

Agree

20

39.2%

7.8%

Strongly Agree

EVM process is better than VM process [30. Why do you think EVM
process is better than VM process ? ]
Strongly Disagree

0%

Disagree

9.8%

Neutral

26

51%

Agree

18

35.3%

3.9%

Strongly Agree

You will try to apply electronic value management (EVM) to your company
[30. Why do you think EVM process is better than VM process ? ]
Strongly Disagree

2%

Disagree

7.8%

Neutral

29

56.9%

Agree

12

23.5%

9.8%

Strongly Agree