General Authority for Educational Buildings (GAEB) in Egypt is responsible for new construction and maintenance of the educational building [1]. According to the Sixth Five- Years Plan in Egypt, the program of educational structures includes new construction of about 2915 schools, with 39.8 thousand classes. Also, maintenance works for buildings about 1250 schools. These works needs a high budg...

this research aims at presenting a consolidated model of data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and value engineering to select the best manufacturing methods for gate valve covers and ranking the methods using topsis.to do so, efficiency evaluation indices were selected based on the value engineering approach and different manufacturing methods were evaluated using dea technique.finally, ef...

This research aims at presenting a consolidated model of data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique and value engineering to select the best manufacturing methods for gate valve covers and ranking the methods using TOPSIS.To do so, efficiency evaluation indices were selected based on the value engineering approach and different manufacturing methods were evaluated using DEA technique.Finally, ef...