ICE UAE Learned Event
Wednesday, 27th February 2019
Bentley Institute Middle East
City Tower 2, Office 1206, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai.
As Chief Executive Officer of MECIC, Sameer Daoud is responsible for the overall activities of the firm.
Sameer comes with 20 years of experience in the construction industry which began with him joining the HNTB Corporation in the United States. This was followed by him working in the Middle East with prominent industry names like WS Atkins and WSP Middle East. Having proven himself as a business leader heading up departments from HR, marketing, sales, legal, commercial, operations, and finance, he joined Hyder Consulting as the Regional Managing Director - Transport & Infrastructure, and after the company's acquisition by Arcadis he took over as Global Business Leader for Infrastructure & Water.
Prior to his current appointment at MECIC, Sameer held the position of Group Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Drake & Scull (DSI) one of the leading engineering and construction company in the region and was responsible for all activities in UAE, KSA, Jordan & Algeria, managing projects worth +USD 1 Billion.
Topic Overview
Value Engineering is the systematic application of function-oriented techniques by a multi-disciplined team to analyze and improve the value of a product, process or service.
Some of the key points to be discussed are as follows:
- Why use VE?
- VE and Project Management
- 10 Knowledge areas and how VE can help on these areas
- When to apply VE and how it is done
- Project to be selected for VE
- Phases of VE: information, function analysis, creative, evaluation, development, presentation and reporting.
