Gulf Chapter
SAVE International
Aug 28, 2017
Presented byAbdulaziz S. Al-Yousefi, CVS-Life, FSAVE
President , Gulf Chapter, SAVE International
Gulf Chapter Board Members
PositionName
PresidentAbdulaziz Al-Yousefi, CVS-Life, FSAVE
VP – Saudi ArabiaAli Al-Khuwaiter, CVS-Life
VP – KuwaitBader Al-Thaidi, AVS
VP – BahrainRana Al-Khalifa, AVS
VP – UAEAbdulrahman Al-Awar, AVS
VP – QatarAbdullah Al-Baker, AVS
VP – OmanAdel Al-Kindi , AVS
Established as Saudi chapter in 1992Became Gulf chapter in 2001
We are at …
The Hart of the world
Where we are
Gulf Chapter was established in 1992.
Where we are
Neighboring countries
As of August 2017 , we are the largest chapter. We are 20 % of all SAVE members and
35 % of all international members
Gulf Chapter Membership
Gulf Chapter20% & 35%
We held our First regional conference held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 2001
Since then , we did … More than 60 Technical Presentations 5 conferences in Kuwait, Jeddah,
Riyadh and Al-Khobar The last and 5th conference was held
in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, May 2015 SAVE President was the keynote speaker.
We held Eight (8) technical presentation, 2015-2016.
Past activities
We issued the 2nd edition of the Arabic/English Value Engineering Guidelines, May 2016
We issued our chapter Arabic/English VE magazine, Vol 8, issue # 2, May 2016.
Recent activities
We issued the third edition of the Arabic/English Value Engineering Guide, Jan 2017
We issued our chapter Arabic/English VE magazine, Vol 8, issue # 3, March 2017.
Recent activities
1st TP, Nov 23, 2016 VE and Risk 2nd TP, Dec 28, 2016 VE and Mega Projects
Jan 2017 VE Guide, issue # 3 3rd TP, Feb 8, 2017 National Cost Database March 15, 2017 VE Magazine, Vol 8, # 3 4th TP, March 29 Costing and Contracts, 5th TP, May 31 Optimize resources 6th TP, Aug 7 VE and Urbanization 7th TP, Oct 4 VE in O&M, Jubail 8th TP, Nov 8 Jubail , Saudi Arabia 9th TP, Dec Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2016 / 2017 Activities
Nine (9) Technical Presentations (TP) before the end of year 2017.
The 6th regional Conference , During the Forth Quarter of year 2017.
The Value Engineering Trak of the IECE, Dec 4-7, 2017
2017 Main Activities
Main 2017 Event
Dec 4 - 7, 2017 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia SAVE President will be the keynote speaker for the
Value Engineering Track 18 Tracks with 44 Technical Sessions, 216 Papers . From 40 Countries. More than 7,000 attendees. More than 300 Exhibiters
www.iecesaudi.com
2018 Planned activities
8 - 10 Technical Presentations. 4 - 6 Training sessions. Two Value Engineering Magazines. The forth edition of the VE Guide.
We will do the following
More than 15,000 VE Studies More than 170,000 participants VE is mandatory for all Saudi Government projects
that are more then $ 5 millions, since October 2001 VE Studies are done at the rate of > 200 /year Improved the Quality of our projects Saved More than $ 50 Billion Saving ranged from 5-30% of the Initial Cost Rate of return is 1 : 100More than 20,000 have trained in VE VE Training done at the rates > 60 per year Four Arabic VE Books were published since 1991More than 3000 have been certified
VE Accomplishments in the Gulf AreaSince the start of VE in the Gulf in late 70’s