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Value engineering

A systematic approach to assessing and analyzing the user’s requirements of a new asset, and ensuring that those requirements are met, but […]

Validity

The ability of an instrument to measure what it is intended to measure, or the strength of its conclusions, inferences or propositions. […]

Viable

This is the balance or intersection between the environmental and economic aspects of the Triple Bottom Line.

Voice

In communication, this indicates the relationship between a sentence’s subject and its verb.

Variable costs/expenses

Costs and expenses that fluctuate and may be influenced by factors such as occupancy levels. For example, fuel costs depend on mileage […]

Variable speed drives (VSDs)

An electronic device that allows a motor to adjust its speed to current load requirements.

Video conferences

Allow people to see each other during a meeting. Monitors and cameras provide video feeds.

Variable expenses

Expenses that fluctuate and may be influenced by factors such as occupancy levels.

Vector data

Digital information about the sizes and relationships between points, line and shapes. Vector data is what one sees in a two-dimensional CAD […]

Voice over internet protocol (VoIP)

The standard that the Internet uses to allow computers to communicate. It transmits both voice and data traffic.