Mr. Dell'Isola, a graduate of the Massachussets Institute of Technology, is currently a private consultant for project management, value engineering, life cycle costing and cost control.
Formerly, for twenty years he was Director of the Value Management Division in Washington, D.C. for Smith Hinchman & Grylls, a large design firm.
His experience from 1950 to 1963 encompassed field construction experience principally on airfield construction overseas as a materials engineer.
He has been working full time in CM/VE since 1963 both in value engineering and as a principal for a Construction Management Consultant providing CM services to Owners. These services involved awarding and contracting for both A/E and construction services. He has conducted over 1200 contracts for various organizations and agencies on projects valued at over 80 billion dollars that resulted in implemented savings of some $7 Billion.
In addition, workshops, seminars and briefings in VE, construction management and project cost control were conducted to over 15,000 professionals.
He served as Director of Value Engineering for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and for the Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C. He has been instrumental in introducing VE Programs in over 35 countries, 30 government agencies and 30 large corporations.
Engineering News-Record cited him in 1964 for outstanding achievement in value engineering. In 1968, he received the Distinguished Service Award and in 1981 was elected Fellow of the International Society of American Value Engineers. In 1980, he received a Presidential Citation from the Society of Japanese Value Engineers, and an Exceptional Service Award from the World Trade Center (1993) for his input in the disaster reconstruction. In 1994 he was elected an Associate of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (U.K), and in 1998 was awarded by SAVE the Larry D. Miles Award (Highest Award for Technical Achievements).
He served as a consultant to the Presidential Advisory Council on Management Improvement and has given expert testimony to several Senate and House Committees. Publications include over 100 articles on VE, LCC and cost control and texts Value Engineering in the Construction Industry (Third Edition) and co-author of Life Cycle Costing for Design Professionals(Second Edition), Life Cycle Cost Data and Project Budgeting for Buildings.
A new book has been recently released, Value Engineering: Practical Applications by R. S. Means Publishers, Kingston, MA. This book covers key project experiences and contains a disc of computer programs to aid the practitioner and is tied to an accredited Online VE Theory course. See www.vecourse.com.
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