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