Efficiencies

COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on economies across the world including on those of the GCC countries. This has filtered down to every sector including construction, which has meant that budgets and costings for new and ongoing projects have come under added scrutiny, as clients/developers seek to get more value for their money. This panel seeks to explore how true value engineering can ensure projects go to schedule, while maintaining quality and stakeholder margins.

Talking Points:

• Ensuring that all project stakeholders are engaged and embrace transparency, efficiency and true value engineering as best practice right from the start of a project
• Accurate costings are critical to ensuring unpleasant surprises are kept to a minimum later in the project’s design and delivery cycle
• Efficient and achievable designs are key to a project’s success as budgets continue to shrink
• Innovating with project delivery to ensure that quality and schedules are maintained, while costs remain within acceptable limits
• Intertwining value engineering with construction supply chain management to ensure flexibility and a stable supply of materials across the project delivery cycle

Confirmed Panellists:

Tom Gilmartin, Business Development Manager, ALEC FITOUT
Phil Branson, UK Director, Omnium International
Ralf Steinhauer, Director, RSP Dubai

Moderator: Ian Sinclair, Project Management and Cost Management Director Saudi Arabia, Faithful+Gould