CTF provides real case studies on the implementation of BIM, Digital Twins, Virtual Construction, Gamification, Digital Sustainability, GIS, Design Automation, ERP and a whole lot more.
Day 1: 14 December 2022 Timings in Saudi Arabia time (Arabian Standard Time) |
Day 1: Main conference |
08.00 |
Registration open |
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09.00 |
The keynotes and Contracting Excellence Awards |
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11.00 |
Morning networking break |
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Track 1 |
Track 2 |
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11.30 |
Data Sovereignty |
Design, Automation, Innovation & Dfma |
12.10 |
ERP Powered Transformation |
Offsite & Industrialised Construction |
12.50 |
Digital Project Management/Controls |
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14.00 |
Networking lunch |
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Track 3 |
Track 4 |
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15.00 |
BIM |
Digitally Linked Sustainability |
15.40 |
Virtual Construction & Gamification |
Green Building Materials |
16.20 |
GIS |
Digital Twins |
17.00 |
Afternoon networking break |
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17.30 |
Close of Day 1 |
Day 2: 15 December 2022 Timings in Saudi Arabia time (Arabian Standard Time) |
Day 2: Workshop and awards |
08.30 |
Registration open |
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09.30 |
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09.30 |
By invitation only Part 1: The Future of KSA Water Infrastructure – Digital Water Workshop by Bentley Systems ![]() Venue: OPAL Ballroom, Movenpick Hotel & Residences, Riyadh Full details: Digital Water Workshop | 15 December 2022 | KSA (ctf-ksa.com) |
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10.00 |
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10.00 |
Registration & networking |
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11.00 |
Break & refreshments |
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11.00 |
Break & refreshments |
By invitation only SCA’s Saudi Project Networking Day ![]() Venue: OPAL Ballroom, Movenpick Hotel & Residences, Riyadh Full details: SCA’s Saudi Project Networking Day | 15 December 2022 | KSA (ctf-ksa.com) |
11.30 |
Part 2: The Future of KSA Water Infrastructure – Digital Water ![]() Venue: OPAL Ballroom, Movenpick Hotel & Residences, Riyadh Full details: Digital Water |
SCA’s Saudi Project Networking Day ![]() Venue: OPAL Ballroom, Movenpick Hotel & Residences, Riyadh Full details: SCA’s Saudi Project Networking Day | 15 December 2022 | KSA (ctf-ksa.com) |
11.30 |
Part 2: The Future of KSA Water Infrastructure – Digital Water ![]() Venue: OPAL Ballroom, Movenpick Hotel & Residences, Riyadh Full details: Digital Water |
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12.30 |
Networking lunch |
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13.00 |
By invitation only BIM for Developers and Contractors Onsite by Signax ![]() Venue: OPAL Ballroom, Movenpick Hotel & Residences, Riyadh |
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14.30 |
Closing refreshments |
Co-located with Contracting Excellence Awards by Saudi Contractors Authority For more information see: SCA CE Awards (ce-awards.sa) |
14 December 2022
Timings in Arabian Standard Time (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Main conference: Wednesday 14 December 2022 | ||
08.00 | Registration and networking | |
The Keynotes | ||
09.00 | SCA’s Contracting Excellence Awards H.E. Majed Al Hogail, Minister of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, KSA |
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09.40 | PANEL: Digital & sustainability trends in KSA mega projects With the projects market so focused on resourcing and delivery issues, the big picture can easily be forgotten. How do you lay the best digital and sustainable foundations to ensure that what you are doing today will meet the needs of the project in 10-15 years’ time? How will customers and clients interact with these projects then and how should digitisation futureproof those needs? Explore which tools and approaches are making the best impact on project delivery and operation now and which are being mapped now to support future capability. Led by: Dr. Mansour AlOtaibi, Chairman of the Architectural Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) In conversation with: Scott Henshaw, Head of Design, Project Delivery, Red Sea Global Julie Alexander, Smart Cities Director, Diriyah Gate Development Authority Menno de Jonge, Director Digital Delivery, NEOM Eng. Abdulaziz Al-Shareef, General Manager of Operation, National Housing Company |
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10.15 | PANEL: Shifting the market at scale: Overcoming pain points in digital adoption
Supply chain maturity is a key challenge facing project delivery in the Kingdom. Only when the entire value chain collaborates will the industry be able to transform digitally at scale. Getting the fundamental enablers - regulation, data, training and access to materials in place will support maturity and allow the industry to focus on digitalisation. Join the debate on value chain pain points in digital adoption and how the industry can come together to overcome these issues and move the needle. Led by: Riyadh Derouiche, Partner In conversation with: Shawki Gholmie, Vice President - Strategy & Corporate Development, Nesma & Partners Contracting Co. Zulema Sanchis, Senior Digital Transformation Lead, Accuracy Mohamed Elweshahy, Projects Director, Shomoul Holding Company Abdulmajid Karanouh, International Director, Head of Interdisciplinary Design & Research, Drees & Sommer Simon Cuciurean, Senior Advancement Director, Bentley Systems |
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10.50 | Reshaping the construction industry
With sustainability as a founding principle, NEOM will reshape the construction industry, creating a blueprint for planning, designing and, ultimately, building the communities of the future. NEOM is taking a leading role in the digital transformation of the international construction industry, by defining and implementing the state-of-the-art digital, Industrialized Construction, Sustainable and Circular technologies. We “make it before we make it.” In other words: we build digitally first before we build physically. NEOM’s vision of the Design & Construction sector will be shared, including examples of using digital technologies in real projects and the outcomes so far. Menno de Jonge, Director Digital Delivery NEOM |
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11.05 | How digitisation is mitigating project supply chain risk
With the mega programmes competing for resources and sensitive to regional and global supply chain disruption, criticality of materials is a reality for most projects. Discover how monitoring platforms are being leveraged to predict material inflation, availability and risk and how localisation policies are being developed to help secure what is required. Riyadh Derouiche, Partner |
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11.15 | Morning networking break and tour | |
Track 1 | ||
11.40 | Panel: Hard talk on data sovereignty & governance in projects
The implications of hosting data locally can be huge when it comes to enabling the supply chain to deliver projects on schedule and budget, especially if the rules are misunderstood or overstated. This session explains how understanding the value of data and its classification throughout the project lifecycle is key to compliance and successful project delivery and looks at the changing landscape in terms of infrastructure, governance and suppliers. Led by: Rob Jones, Partner, b2b Connect In conversation with: Khaled Alsulaimi, Cybersecurity GRC Director, Red Sea Global and AMAALA Eng. Majed Tamer Aljendy, Chief Control Officer, Saudi Binladen Group Richard Dib, Smart City Advisor, Royal Commission of Al Ula Badr Burshaid, President, PMI KSA, Programme Director, Saudi Aramco Sherief Elabd, Director of Industry Strategy and Innovation, Oracle Construction and Engineering |
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QUICK CASE STUDIES: Success stories in ERP powered digital transformation
Digital transformation promises to reap benefits for organisations that can fully integrate, automate and digitalise their processes, providing end-to-end visibility and control of business and projects. This session showcases recent ERP implementations across the industry value chain in Saudi Arabia with obvious project cost, time and efficiency gains, from estimation & planning to O&M. Starting with level 1, base-line digitisation of back-end processes, through to second level automation and integration with BIM. |
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12.15 | Story 1: A baseline cloud-driven and transformation for cashflow profit enhancement
Janak Vakharia, Chief Executive Officer, Xpedeon Mohammed Salloum, Chief Operating Officer, Mas Engineering & Construction Company |
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12.25 | Story 2: 100% digitisation of routine processes for improved productivity & safety management
Wees Abraham, VP Operations and Board Member, SHADE Corporation |
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12.35 | Q&A | |
QUICK CASE STUDIES: Success stories in digital project controls | ||
12.45 | Story 1: Digitalisation of manpower tracking on projects
Mamdouh Khawaji, Group Chief Information Officer, Saudi Binladen Group |
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12.55 | Story 2: Connecting schedule review to risk management
Evan Filis, Principal Solutions Engineer, Deltek Syed Saud, Systems Director, Red Sea Global |
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13.05 | Story 3: Use of remote quality management in mega projects
Sherief Elabd, Director of Industry Strategy and Innovation, Oracle Construction and Engineering |
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13.15 | Q&A | |
13.25 | Closing remarks
Okan Kizilirmak, Regional Director, Middle East & Africa, Aksa Power Generation |
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13.35 | Networking lunch | |
Track 2 Design Automation, Innovation, Dfma and Offsite |
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Led by: RJ Mahadev, Founder & CEO, RaaP Builders | ||
QUICK CASE STUDIES: Design automation & innovation
Design automation can help alleviate resource shortages by saving the manpower hours in repetitive design components and enforce quality by eliminating human error and optimising 1000s of potential design routes. Taking new and innovative approaches to design management can provide a simultaneous review process and oversight including real-time reporting – leading to better designs |
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11.40 | Talk 1: Parametric design with BIM automation for optioneering & quality in complex project
Dr Ahmad Salih, Senior Director Knowledge Management and Operational Excellence, Khatib & Alami |
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11.50 | Talk 2: Computational design automation in KSA infrastructure projects
Mohammad Al Ktaishat, Digital Project Delivery Lead for Civil Infrastructure, AECOM Middle East & Africa |
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12.00 | Talk 3: A platform centric approach in more efficient design review and decision making
Arsen Safaryan, Director Information & Data Management, SEVEN |
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12.10 | Talk 4: The next frontier in design innovation and management: Interdisciplinary design approach in KSA flagship projects
Greig Paterson, Interdisciplinary Design Director, Drees & Sommer |
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12.20 | Talk 5: Dfma: Optimising offsite manufacturing for engineers
Patrick D. O'Callaghan, CEO, Off-Site Engineering Solutions |
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12.30 | Q&A Session | |
12.40 | Applying a productisation approach to construction
Ihab Ramlawi, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Dupod by Amana Hattan Nazer, Vice President KSA, Saudi Amana |
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12.50 | Adoption of modular construction in KSA housing sector
Ali Alahmad, General Manager of Modern Constriction Initiative, Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing |
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13.00 | PANEL: How industrialised construction is the easiest route to drive digital transformation in KSA’s market
Moving construction activities to factory environments will facilitate digital transformation through more effective applications in data science (AI & Digital Twins), BIM and Common Data Environments. The convergence of precast methods with drone reality capture and advanced solutions like the metaverse will also ensure absolute efficiency in design. This session examines modular construction and its merging with digital solutions in Saudi Arabia as well as other parts of the world. By comparing lessons learned in the US Silicon Valley with advances in KSA and the wider region, get a full view of the art of the possible and implementation realities in their respective markets. Led by: RJ Mahadev, Founder & CEO, RaaP Builders In conversation with: Mashael Bin Saedan, President and Chairwoman, Al Saedan BT Yoshihiro Aizawa, CEO, Aizawa Concrete Corporation Bandar Alkahlan, General Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Institute Mark Graham, Executive Director, Design Engineering Management, ROSHN Patrick D. O'Callaghan, CEO, Off-Site Engineering Solutions Jens Otterstedt, General Manager, Al Masaood Bergum |
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13.40 | Networking lunch | |
Track 3 BIM, Virtual Construction & GIS |
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QUICK CASE STUDIES: How BIM can be applied at scale to optimise supply chain efficiency and delivery
BIM is yet to be fully deployed in the market and has the biggest potential to help deliver Saudi Arabia’s scale of projects. Such scale that has never been seen before and demands innovative approaches. These series of short talks explore how BIM can help address the challenges associated with massive project programmes, such as lack of materials & resources, competing delivery time frames and existing supply chain inefficiency. To address these challenges, new approaches to contracting must also be considered that can facilitate digital transformation and form an integral part of BIM. Led by: Craig Garrett, Digital Construction Manager KSA, ALEC Engineering and Contracting |
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14.30 | Talk 1: BIM for owners – remote supervision of site for enhanced quality, cost, safety and control
Petr Manin, Regional Director, SIGNAX Roman Ruksha, Account Director, SIGNAX |
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14.40 | Talk 2: The effect of BIM in rework in KSA construction projects
Amin Badra, Digital Unit Head, Kabbani Construction Group |
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14.50 | Talk 3: BIM use in modular projects with scheduling & quantity gains
Zakria Osman, Corporate Digital Engineering Manager, El-Seif Engineering & Contracting Company |
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15.00 | Talk 4: FM enabled construction models
Fawwaz Hammad, Director Technical Office, Al Bawani |
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15.10 | Q&A Session | |
15.20 | How effective information management can optimise both project delivery and asset performance
Access to information (as data) of the right quality at the right time, trusted by all parties, is a critical enabler of the sectors digital transformation. Here we look at how daisy-chained Common Data Environments from supply chain through to client, managing Projects, Programmes and Portfolios, can produce direct productivity gains and drive-up quality. Peter Lynch, Snr Advancement Manager, Bentley Systems |
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QUICK CASE STUDIES: Virtual construction – making better decisions through immersive experiences
Developing immersive virtual experiences throughout the design and build stages improves stakeholder engagement, cuts down cost and rework, improves safety and end-user experience and will become the main stay of how executives want to experience projects. The Metaverse, VR, Gamification and Reality Capture tools are becoming increasingly important in work winning, controlling design decisions and constructability rehearsals. Nizar Jegham, Advisory Director – Digital Middle East, WSP |
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15.30 | Talk 1: Onsite clash resolution using AR and MR
Abdullah Hassan Saqr, BIM Manager, Modern Building Leaders |
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15.40 | Talk 2: Using the Metaverse to perfect the RealVerse – reducing project control costs by 15% through design acceleration and remote supervision
Wassim Haroun, Re-founder and CEO, CONSER |
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15.50 | Talk 3: Virtual reality and metaverse in design optioneering
Taishi Aizawa, Senior Managing Director, Aizawa Concrete Corporation |
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16.00 | Talk 4: Metaverse in training and safety
Wees Abraham, VP–Operations and Board Member, SHADE |
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16.10 | Q&A Session | |
QUICK CASE STUDIES: Success stories in GIS | ||
16.20 | Talk 1: GIS in master development planning
Manal Sayed, Senior Director – Digital Services, Khatib & Alami |
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16.30 | Talk 2: GIS construction progress and environmental monitoring
Saeed Ullah Khan, Associate Director GIS, Digital Delivery, Projects Delivery, Red Sea Global Saad Saeed AlGhamdi, Assistant GIS Manager, Red Sea Global |
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16.40 | Q&A Session | |
16.50 | Afternoon networking break | |
17.30 | Close of Track 3 | |
Track 4 Sustainability, Materials, Digital Twins |
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Rethinking building materials to deliver faster, greener and cheaper
This series of talks will explore innovative building materials or combinations of materials that can be used or reused to build better and help address sustainability and volume shortages such as green cement, graphene and alternatives for steel, glass and other examples. Led by: Rob Jones, Partner, b2b Connect |
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14.30 | Talk 1: Embodied carbon scenarios for concrete, steel and wood in KSA’s residential projects
Waleed Alghamdi, Sustainability Director, ROSHN |
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14.40 | Talk 2: Climate considerate construction – using local materials to adapt to a desert climate
Julie Alexander, Smart Cities Director, Diriyah Gate Development Authority |
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14.50 | Q&A Session | |
QUICK CASE STUDIES: Digitally linked sustainability in KSA projects
Sustainable construction practices aren’t just good for the planet - they’re also good for business. It begins in the project design phase, but general contractors can make a big change by choosing better materials and adopting leaner digital processes that are more responsible and efficient. We review some of the solutions powered by digital tools that can make a big difference. Led by: Rob Jones, Partner, b2b Connect |
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15.00 | Talk 1: Carbon calculators and project emission monitoring
Hani Abdel Razeq, Associate Sustainability Director, AESG |
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15.10 | Talk 2: Targeting ultimate eco-friendly construction through 3D printing - Why is progress slow and what can be done about it?
Mansour Faried, HQ Chief Engineer, CSCEC Middle East |
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15.20 | Q&A Session | |
QUICK CASE STUDIES: Success stories in digital twin journeys
The need to build new and modify existing assets into efficient, connected and sustainable facilities of the future is moving at a faster pace than ever before. The imperative to design, build and operate more efficiently and cost-effectively is the new norm. This session explores real digital twin journeys of different use-cases, varying assets and scale. How have these early adopters defined and implemented them and what have been the key challenges to resolve on the road to data integration. Led by: Rob Jones, Partner, b2b Connect |
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15.30 | Talk 1: Building blocks for a digital twin in residential real estate development
Amr Saad, Associate Director BIM, ROSHN |
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15.40 | Talk 2: Latest developments in a municipal digital twin
Richard Dib, Smart City Advisor, Royal Commission of Al Ula |
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15.50 | Talk 3: Digital twins in project progress, schedule and cost monitoring
Dr. Mansour AlOtaibi, Chairman of the Architectural Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) |
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16.00 | Q&A Session | |
16.10 | PANEL: Youth on digital transformation and the state of the industry
Research shows that the AEC industry is an aging one, and that it is becoming harder to attract younger tech savvy talent, more likely open to change. This candid debate delves into the youth perspective on the challenges facing the industry in relation to digital and cultural transformation and where it should be focusing its efforts to bring about change. Led by: Rob Jones, Partner, b2b Connect In conversation with: Mateusz Lukasiewicz, Digital Projects Analyst, KEO International Consultants Abdulrahman Bin Muqrin, Senior Manager, ROSHN Real Estate Company Anas Harun, Design Manager, SEVEN |
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16.30 | Afternoon networking break | |
17.30 | Close of Track 4 |