Author: MECN Adminstrator

How technologies have disrupted the AEC industry and will affect us as we further move on, especially in the area of Value Engineering by Venugopal Nanjan, CEO – Centre of Excellence, S&T Global Engineering Services, on Value Engineering and Technology

This presentation will focus on the definitions of value in the context of value engineering and the relationship between functionality/quality with cost.

It will touch on the misconceptions that value engineering is solely reducing the cost of materials and we should look at how to maximise the value of the building – in terms of efficiency and the end user experience. We will discuss how value engineering can result in increasing capital costs to make savings later on or increasing the sell ability or sales value of a building.

We will discuss what ‘value’ means to various stakeholders and how various stakeholders should be having an input into key design decisions.

Value Engineering can make a considerable difference to the success of a project and a client’s bottom line. Big Project Middle East is hosting a summit that will address key issues and topics around the subject. Through a series of dialogues, the Summit offered professionals an opportunity to discuss, debate and define the various solutions that Value Engineering can offer.

Nithin Thomas from Shapoorji Pallonji moderates the final panel discussion of the day on creating a wider, safer construction site with BIM.

Umang Patel from MottMacDonald gives as eye-opening presentation on cyber security in BIM processes during the ME BIM Summit2019.

Panellists discuss modelling assets, combined with data both historical and live to predict the behavior of assets at the second panel.

The first presentation of #MEBIMSummit2019 was given by Vivek Kale from Bentley Middle East on Advancing BIM and how Digital Twins can take centre stage.

Conference chair, Farah Kurdi from MottMacDonald moderates the first panel discussion of the #MEBIMSummit2019 on ‘Building Smarter Cities with CIM’

Reem Dayoub Initiative by Hiba Jaber, Lead Structural Engineer at LACASA Architects & Engineering Consultants