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Abstract If the residential spaces are the most important spaces for the human activities the workspaces are at least its closet competitor. In many countries., both are considered as a duality. It is surprising that how much time people spend in offices, only few of them are well designed. The workspaces didn’t take the appropriate interest perhaps because. for the most part, the design of offices is beyond the control of the people who use them. therefore, the workspaces’ design in office buildings represents an important factor affecting the overa11 performance of these spaces and the employees working in them. A well designed workspace should take in consideration the users’ needs functionally, environmentally and psychologically. At the same time, it should fulfill these needs with the lowest possible cost without either affecting the workspace performance or neglecting its elegant aspect. Thus, it is clear that the balance between the cost and the performance for the office building workspaces design is very critical and essential. In fact, it needs a great awareness of all factors included in this process so as to achieve a suitable and sufficient solution. This requires new approaches for the workspace design, which in turn comes out of an integrated strategy based on a multi dimensional approach. The goal is to provide architects and designers with viable and innovative solutions to support the workspaces and employees’ performance. Many fields can participate in solving this problem. Among them is Value Engineering (VE). Value Engineering concept means the study of certain project with certain methodology in order to attain the highest efficiency and performance with the lowest possible cost, through eliminating & removing the unnecessary C!)Sts, and at the same time fulfill the users’ needs for this project. Therefore, the J:wpose of this research is to present Value Engineering concept as an appropriate approach for solving the office building problem. The main goal of the research is to establish a comprehensive view of a strategy that doesn’t consider the cost element alone, but deals with it as a component of an integrated system that produces a balanced working environment. Moreover, the research aims to propose a framework (Value Matrix) in order to help architects achieving a high performance Workspace with the lowest possible cost without Affecting the needed quality |