PROFESSOR STEVEN MALE

Professor of Property and Infrastructure Asset Management.

School of Civil Engineering
University of Leeds

BRIEF PROFILE

Professor Steven Male, Institute for Resilient Infrastructure,

School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, is Professor of
Property and Infrastructure Asset Management. He has secured
in excess of £3m of research funding and has undertaken
extensive industrial research and consultancy involving
knowledge and technology transfer. He has conducted in excess
of 150 value management, risk management and project audit
studies. Steven co-authored th first text on Value Management in
the UK and subsequently undertook an international
benchmarking study into Value Management, funded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. In 2004 he
and colleagues Professor John Kelly, and practitioner Drummond
Graham, brought together their 20 years of experience in
conducting research and consultancy in Value Management into
a text book published by Blackwell Science,

During 2004-05 Steven led a team to develop a National Asset

Management Framework for the Environment Agency’s £23bn
replacement value asset base and associated £300-400m/annum
capital programme. During 2005-2006 Steven led a team to
undertake the UK Office of Government Commerce’s (OGC)
research project to investigate improving asset management of
the £220bn central civil government estate, and with a team from
the School completed a study in 2008 / 09 for the OGC and
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment to
investigate capacity, capability and skills in the procurement of
major construction programmes and projects across the public
sector, with specific reference to central government. Steven has
been a National Council member, and is currently a member of
Faculty, Institute for Asset Management. He was a member of the
Project Board to develop the latest version of BSi PAS55 Physical
Asset Management.

Steven is currently co-leading an organisational capability

programme in London Underground (LU) for their recently
launched Project Management Framework. He has researched,
designed and is currently delivering a workshop based training
programme covering some 600 senior and middle management
personnel across the LU business.
 PROFESSOR STEVEN MALE
Professor of Property and Infrastructure Asset Management.
School of Civil Engineering
University of Leeds

Value Management Seminar

Outside of the manufacturing sectors of industry, Value

Management is principally seen as a project-focused
methodology. Value Engineering, as a subset of Value
Management, is also aligned to project-related situations. Value
Management focuses on the decision to invest, establishing
requirements, and scope, and ensuring that the investment or
‘business’ project is defined and delivered appropriately from the
outset. Value Management is much more radical is its approach
to projects. The focus of Value Engineering is ensuring that the
technical solution or technical options in a project meet the
investment decision, the requirements and scope of the project.
Value engineering focuses on aligning the appropriate ‘technical
project’ to meet the investment or business project. Value
engineering is much more concerned with incremental
improvements to technical solutions and options in projects.

The seminar will highlight how Value Management and value

Engineering have been used on projects, and will contrast this
with examples of how it has been used to set up asset
management frameworks within government agency and across
central government. It will also highlight how Value Management
has been used on Programmes of Projects.