HRH Premier to patronise Arab engineering conference

Manama, Mar. 19 (BNA): Bahrain will host the 27th Arab Engineering Conference, organised by the Bahrain Society of Engineers (BSE), in collaboration with the Federation of Arab Engineers on March 29-30. His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa will patronise the two-day event, themed "Transportation in the Arab World and the Prospects for its Development and Integration between Arab Countries". Bahrain Society of Engineers President Masoud Al Hermi said that the conference aims to enhance the role of Arab engineering in planning, implementation and evaluating infrastructure projects in the field of transportation, and study the means which ensure that transportation projects will have priorities in the budgets maintained for development projects in the Arab World. It also aims to identify engineering parameters for the construction of transportation projects and attempting to adopt homogeneous and compatible criterion that ensure easy integration of such projects and exchange of expertise between Arab engineers, universities and scientific research centres, he added. He pointed out that a technical exhibition will be held in conjunction with the technical sessions within the conference venue. The exhibition is intended to provide an opportunity for companies, consulting and research organisations to display and demonstrate their activities and services. He added that jury of the "Outstanding Arab Female Engineer" and the "Best Scientific Research or National Project" comprises qualified and experienced engineers.