September 2008
We are pleased to announce the election of 4 new Directors to the MVF Board. They are in alphabetical order:
- Kent Barker, ME, AVS - Lead Value Engineer with Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies
- Hamid R. Parsaei, Phd, PE, FIIE - Professor & Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston
- Geoffrey Q. Shen, PhD, CVS, VMF - Associate Dean, Faculty of Construction and Land Use, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Robert B. Stewart, CVS, PMP - Executive Vice President, Value Management Strategies, Inc.
August 2008
The next Foundation Board meeting will be on October 11, 2008 in Williamsburg, Virginia. It will be in the Woodlands Hotel & Suites, 105 Visitor Drive. Tel: 757-253-2277
Room rate is $129 + tax and includes a continental breakfast. The hotel will honor this rate for three days before and after our meeting in case anyone would like to vacation. We can also purchase tickets to the Historic Area trade sites and museums for $16 for use during our stay (the regular price is $35/day).
To make your reservation call 800-261-9530 and give them our conference code - LAWJ08A. The reservation block is in the name of the Lawrence D. Miles Value Foundation.
Also e-mail the Foundation to let us know you are coming so that we have enough chairs for all.
| June 2008
A thank you to Keith van Heerden of South Africa. He published a new book titled Handbook of Values Management Thinking and inspired his publisher, Jet Set Graphics Design, Pretoria, SA, to donate its 1979 pictures of Larry and Eleanor Miles to our photo archives. You can view these by clicking on Photo Archives. The book is available from the SAVE International bookstore! |
December 2007
New Policy on Free SAVE Conference registration -
Subject to budget availability and on a first-come, first-serve basis per university, the Miles Value Foundation will fund 100% of the SAVE International Conference registration fee on a one-time basis for any full-time college/university professor in the world. Candidates not selected will be priortized for future consideration.
We have also revised our list of colleges to list ALL colleges that offer a VE course, not just those that the Foundation supports. Click on List of Colleges offering VE to look them up!
Three new papers published in INTERACTIONS on carbon examples have been posted. They demonstrate the very lacking current state-of-the art in carbon knowledge
- Paper 1 - The Carbon Value Index
- Paper 2 - Need for Carbon Research
- Paper 3 - The Carbon in Packaging
| July 2007
The dictionary of standard value methodology terms is now posted on this site. Click on DICTIONARY to look something up!
| May 2007
The Foundation is developing a plan to establish Carbon Value Standards in support of the reduction of Global Warming. Our position on the debate whether mankind causes global warming or not is - why take a chance?
Carbon is a resource the same as is money. Carbon can be a focus of savings in performing a value study as surely as money can be the focus. We have a problem solving technique that is unparalleled in its compentency to provide alternative solutions and change the course of direction to conserve and protect resources.
Accordingly, the Foundation is developing a plan to conduct the research and develop the tools needed to evaluate carbon impact during a value study. Click on Carbon Plan to review it. If you would like to contribute research to this project please send us an e-mail.
| Past News Items
- Our new on-line course on value methodology - Basic Value Analysis is now available for internal use by universities. Each university can customize the course with its logo and install it on their university academic computer program.
Everything is on-line: the text, narrated power point slides, homework, quizzes, mid-term and final exams. The text is Carlos Fallons original classic Value Analysis. Click on BVA Course to review its content. If you want to try the course, Lesson 1 is free!
- Mentors who are members of the College of Fellows are now available to those interested in learning more about value methodology, gain certification, or assist new attendees at SAVE conferences. Click on: College of Fellows to see who is a member of the College, and review their resumes and photos so you can recognize them the next time you participate in a value event!
- Schools desiring support for their VM courses need to enter into an Agreement with the Foundation. This agreement is posted on this web site. Click on: Educational Agreement
- The SAVE International Certification Board set guidelines by which full-time college faculty can get their VE courses approved for Module 1 certification acceptance. You can review this by clicking on: Module 1 Approval Requirements
- The full Lawrence D. Miles collection of papers at the Kurt F. Wendt Library, University of Wisconsin in Madison is now on the internet. One can browse through the libary archives by clicking on Miles Papers. For additional information on this web site see Library Resources.
- Ted Fowler loaned us an old slide of Larry Miles taken at the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio in April 1984. See it in our Archive on line. Thank you Ted! If any other of you have old photos or slides of Larry Miles please loan them to us for scanning. They will be returned.
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