• Apply the correct FIDIC form of contract that is best suited for each project
• Implement FIDIC’s principles, mechanisms, and best practices for contract and project management
• Demonstrate the responsibilities, obligations, and entitlements of the employer and the contractor
• List the engineer’s different roles, duties, and responsibilities about FIDIC contracts
• Apply the correct payments, claims, and dispute resolution mechanisms as envisaged by the FIDIC contracts

• Civil, structural, and building engineers, project managers, quantity surveyors, and construction professionals in the early stages of their professional development needing a broad introduction to the contractual approaches of the construction industry
• Those seeking an understanding of how to operate construction contracts internationally
• Graduate engineers undertaking their Initial Professional Development for the chartered Professional Review
• Those seeking knowledge and understanding of construction contracts, how they are formed, and how to work with them
• Those seeking to understand NEC, FIDIC, ICC, ACE, AND JCT contracts

• Day 1: FIDIC contract documents: Introduction and principles 

  • Introduction to FIDIC
  • Background to FIDIC contracts
  • Harmonization based on the type of project
  • Features of the 1999 editions
  • Structure of the documents
  • Forms
  • Main differences between the 1999 construction contract and the 1987 Red Book
  • User-friendliness
  • Preparation of conditions of contract
  • The legal character of FIDIC conditions of contract
  • Relationship between FIDIC conditions of contract and legal systems
  • Risk analysis
  • Which form to use
  • Overview of the 1999 contracts
  • Construction contract
  • Main differences between the construction contracts

   

  Day 2: Responsibilities of the main parties

  • Clause 1: General provisions and general issues
  • Clause 2: The employer
  • Clause 3: The engineer
  • Clause 4: The contractor
  • Clause 5: Construction contract – nominated subcontractors
  • Clause 5: Plant and design-build contract – design
  • Management of projects
  • Clause 6: Staff and labor
  • Clause 7: Plant material and workmanship
  • Clause 8: Commencement delays and suspension

   

  Day3: Tests on completion

  • Clause 9: Tests on completion
  • Clause 10: Employer’s taking over; defects liability
  • Clause 11: Plant contract – tests after completion

  Financial clauses and procedures 

  • Clause 12: Construction contract – measurement and evaluation
  • Clause 13: Variations and adjustments
  • Clause 14: Contract price and payment

   

  Day 4: Suspension and termination 

  • Clause 15: Termination by employer
  • Clause 16: Suspension and termination by contractor
  • Risk, liability and force majeure
  • Clause 17: Risk and responsibility
  • Clause 18: Liability and insurance
  • Clause 19: Force majeure

   

   

   

   

  Day 5: Claims, disputes and arbitration

  • Clause 20: Claims, disputes and arbitration
  • Inherent project risk
  • Contractor’s claims and employer’s claims; claims procedures
  • Disputes
  • Amicable settlement
  • Dispute adjudication board
  • Arbitration

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.