Under the patronage of Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz, The Deputy Premier, Defense and Aviation Minister and Inspector General, the Fourth Gulf Conference on Value Engineering will be organized here on April 21-23, 2008. The Conference will be hosted under the auspices of The Saudi Engineers Commission and the branch of The International Society for Engineers of Value Engineering in cooperation with the Public Administration of The Military Works at the Defense Ministry. The Conference, due to be organized on the role of the value engineering in the economic prosperity in the Gulf region, will be attended by more than 500 delegates including experts and researchers. It will shed light on the significance of the value engineering in the economic prosperity of the Arab Gulf region. On the fringes of this conference, an Exhibition will also be organized with the participation of more than 58 authorities concerned with value engineering at the private and public sectors.