diff --git a/applications/utilities/mesh/advanced/collapseEdges/collapseDict b/applications/utilities/mesh/advanced/collapseEdges/collapseDict
index 75f04740ef..e89aa85241 100644
--- a/applications/utilities/mesh/advanced/collapseEdges/collapseDict
+++ b/applications/utilities/mesh/advanced/collapseEdges/collapseDict
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ controlMeshQualityCoeffs
 
     // The amount that initialFaceLengthFactor will be reduced by for each
     // face if its collapse generates a poor quality face
-    faceReductionFactor         $initialFaceLengthFactor;
+    faceReductionFactor         0.5;
 
     // Maximum number of smoothing iterations for the reductionFactors
     maximumSmoothingIterations  2;