Define the Requirements. Implement the Strategy. Protect the Value.

Define → Quantify → Prioritize → Integrate → Protect → Measure

Services by project phase

  • Predesign Strategy: Define the outcomes

  • Design Guidance: Translate strategy into requirements the design team can implement

  • Procurement and Cost Evaluation: Create an accurate basis for decision-making

  • Construction and Implementation: Protect the strategy. Value engineering should improve how the strategy is delivered, not quietly eliminate it.

  • Activation and Performance: Confirm the strategy delivers

Specialized Expertise

  • Acoustics and Speech Privacy: Pragmatic construction-based VE solutions

  • Manufactured and Adaptable Construction: Vehicles for project success

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Predesign Strategy: Define the Outcomes

  • Establish the owner’s mandates and measures of project success 

  • Define clinical, operational, financial, and adaptability objectives   

  • Quantify downtime, disruption, revenue exposure, and lifecycle costs   

  • Identify risks and opportunities

  • Prioritize spaces and applications by change frequency, operational consequence, payback, and mission value 

  • Develop the preliminary business case  

  • Establish architect and contractor selection criteria

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Design Guidance: Translate Strategy into Implementation Requirements

  • Convert owner objectives into measurable performance criteria  

  • Establish Owner’s Project Design Requirements   

  • Support development of the Basis of Design   

  • Align programming & design decisions with the strategy   

  • Evaluate manufactured, prefabricated, and conventional approaches   

  • Review adaptability, constructability, acoustics, MEP integration, and lifecycle performance   

  • Establish project criteria for architects, engineers, contractors, users, facilities, and key trades   

  • Review drawings and specifications for alignment

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Procurement & Cost Evaluation: Create an Accurate Decision-making Basis

  • Develop bid and performance requirements   

  • Define complete trade scopes  Identify transferred, reduced, and eliminated work   

  • Reconcile conventional and manufactured estimates  

  • Evaluate schedule, general conditions, operational impact, and lifecycle cost  

  • Prepare complete-scope comparisons and cost-benefit analyses   

  • Document the decision and its underlying assumptions    

  • Carry requirements into bid packages and GMP development

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Construction and Implementation: Protect the strategy. Value engineering should improve how the strategy is delivered, not quietly eliminate it.

  • Maintain alignment with the Owner’s project Requirements and Basis of Design   

  • Participate in design-assist and coordination   

  • Review submittals, shop drawings, mock-ups, and proposed substitutions   

  • Evaluate RFIs, field conditions, and changes against project objectives   

  • Participate in value engineering

  • Prevent isolated cost reductions from compromising larger project outcomes   

  • Verify performance and implementation   

  • Coordinate owner, design team, contractor, trades, and system providers  

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Activation and Performance: Confirm the strategy delivers

  • Assist facilities and users to operate, maintain, and modify the completed environment   

  • Establish processes for future changes and upgrades   

  • Facilitate documentation of system capabilities and responsibilities  

  • Track downtime, modification costs, disruption, and operational performance   

  • Compare actual results with the original success measures

  • Document lessons learned for future capital projects

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Specialized Expertise: Healthcare Acoustics and Speech Privacy

  • Set Speech Privacy goals by area 

  • Develop VE’d acoustic construction assemblies   

  • Estimate SPP (Speech Privacy Potential)

Acoustics affects healthcare design, construction cost, adaptability, and the privacy experienced by patients and caregivers. Yet it is too often treated as a technical exercise rather than an integrated construction objective.

Acousticians provide essential analysis, calculations, and code-compliance guidance. I complement that expertise by translating acoustic goals into pragmatic, constructible, and proven value-engineered solutions that can be incorporated into early designs through the construction documents.

This construction-informed approach can improve speech privacy, reduce unnecessary construction costs, preserve adaptability, and prevent value-engineering decisions from compromising performance.

Acoustic guidance can be provided at any project phase, from establishing performance goals through design review, value engineering, construction detailing, and field-performance assessment.

Iannone Innovative Solutions provides construction acoustic advisory and educational services. Mike Iannone is not an acoustician or a licensed professional engineer. IIS does not provide acoustical engineering services, conduct on-site acoustic measurements or testing, perform advanced acoustic calculations or predictive modeling, prepare engineered acoustic designs, or certify compliance with codes, standards, or project performance requirements. For a more detailed overview of these services and limitations, view the Construction Acoustic Advisory white paper on the “Insights” tab of this website.

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Manufactured & Adaptable Healthcare Construction: Vehicles for Project Success

  • Determine where manufactured construction can best support project objectives    

  • Prioritize applications based on change frequency, operational impact, mission value, and ROI

  • Evaluate systems for clinical performance, adaptability, durability, and constructability

  • Establish performance and integration requirements    

  • Compare manufactured and conventional solutions on complete scope (not wall price alone)  

  • Identify trade offsets, schedule benefits, and operational savings    

  • Coordinate architectural, structural, MEP, equipment, technology, and acoustic requirements    

  • Develop the business case for owner and executive decision-making    

  • Advance integration of the selected approach into design documents, estimates, bid packages, and construction    

  • Protect the success goals through procurement, value engineering, and implementation

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