Under the patronage of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, the Fourth Gulf Value Engineering Conference will be held here on April 22-24, 2008. The conference will be organized by Saudi Engineers Association and the branch of International Value Engineers Society in collaboration with the General Directorate of Military Works at the Ministry of Defense and Aviation under the title " Effectiveness of Value Engineering in Economic Prosperity in the Gulf region''. As many as 500 specialized experts and researchers interested in this area from the Kingdom and abroad will attend the Conference. The chairman of the Association's board of directors Dr. Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabeeah thanked the Crown Prince for his attention, care and support for the conference which embodies the position of Saudi Arabia at regional and international arenas.