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FIDIC 2017 Red Book for Employers & Contractors Training Course

Goes deep into the 2017 Red Book edition, not the wider FIDIC suite: employer and contractor duties, notices, claims, determinations and the standing DAAB.

CFC · Construction Contracts, FIDIC & ClaimsAll Levels#3144ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Procurement, Contracts & Supply ChainCategories:Construction Contracts, FIDIC & Claims

Course Overview

The FIDIC 2017 Red Book for Employers & Contractors Training Course equips employer representatives, contract managers, commercial managers, and contractors' project teams with a working, clause-level understanding of the second edition of the Conditions of Contract for Construction, the form used where the employer provides the design and the works are paid by measurement. Unlike a general introduction to the FIDIC suite, this course goes deep into one book and one edition, and it reads that edition from both sides of the contract, so that each party understands what it must do, what the other party can require, and where value is lost through missed procedure on infrastructure, building, and public works projects across the Gulf and Africa. The 2017 edition is longer and far more procedural than its predecessor, and teams that manage it by habit soon run into trouble. Participants work through the main obligations of the Employer, the Engineer, and the Contractor; the Employer's financial arrangements; the program and its revision; advance warning; quality management and compliance verification; variations and value engineering; measurement and valuation; and the treatment of Exceptional Events. The course pays particular attention to the formal notice regime, which separates notices from ordinary communications and attaches consequences to form, addressee, and timing. Claims and disputes receive detailed treatment. Participants study the single claims procedure that now applies equally to the Employer and the Contractor, time bars and the limited relief from them, the Engineer's neutral determination and its consultation phase, the Notice of Dissatisfaction, the standing Dispute Avoidance/Adjudication Board, and the route to amicable settlement and arbitration. The course also addresses how Particular Conditions commonly change this balance, how FIDIC's Golden Principles help to test those changes, and how the governing law may affect termination, delay damages, and limits of liability. The course is delivered through clause-based case studies, notice drafting exercises, claim and determination role plays, program and payment scenarios, and a final workshop on a realistic project dispute. Participants leave with a contract obligations matrix, a notice and time bar register, template notices, a claim submission structure, and a Red Book contract management plan they can adapt to their own projects.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain where the 2017 Red Book fits in the FIDIC suite and when a design-by-employer, measured contract is suitable.
  • Analyze the obligations, powers, and risks the second edition gives the Employer, the Contractor, and the Engineer.
  • Interpret how the Particular Conditions change the General Conditions and what that does to each party's rights and obligations.
  • Apply the notice regime correctly, distinguishing formal notices from ordinary contract communications.
  • Manage the program, its revisions, and advance warning as tools for controlling delay and its consequences.
  • Assess Employer's financial arrangements, site access, and other Employer duties that can give rise to Contractor claims.
  • Implement quality management, compliance verification, testing, and defects procedures from each party's perspective.
  • Administer variations, value engineering proposals, measurement, and valuation under a measured contract.
  • Evaluate extension of time, delay damages, and cost entitlement, including the treatment of concurrent delay.
  • Follow the single claims procedure from first notice through detailed claim and the Engineer's response.
  • Prepare for the Engineer's consultation and determination, and respond with a timely Notice of Dissatisfaction.
  • Use the standing DAAB, amicable settlement, and arbitration in a planned way, proportionate to the value and nature of the dispute.
  • Review Particular Conditions against FIDIC's Golden Principles and identify changes that shift risk or weaken procedure.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for contract managers, commercial managers, quantity surveyors, claims specializts, project managers, and construction managers working for employers or contractors on projects let under the 2017 Red Book or tendered on that form, and for site and design coordination staff whose records and correspondence often decide the outcome of a claim. It is equally relevant for employer's representatives, the Engineer's staff, procurement and tendering teams, legal advisers, and officials in ministries of public works, transport, water, and energy, and in municipalities and public project authorities that procure measured construction contracts. Professionals in general contractors, specializt subcontractors, consulting engineers, development agencies, and infrastructure funds across the Gulf and Africa will find the course directly applicable, whether they act mainly for the employer's side or the contractor's side, because each session is taught from both positions. It is particularly valuable for teams who know the older edition well and must now run live projects under the second edition's more demanding procedures.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
  • Explain how the 2017 Red Book allocates design, ground, time, and cost risk between the parties.
  • Read the General Conditions and the Particular Conditions together and identify what has been changed and why it matters.
  • Identify the Employer's and the Contractor's main obligations and the entitlements that follow when either is breached.
  • Draft contract notices that meet the form, content, and addressee requirements of the second edition.
  • Maintain a notice and time bar register that gives a live project team early warning of what is due.
  • Use the program and advance warning together to control delay and protect each party's entitlement.
  • Administer variations, measurement, and payment applications under a measured contract with clear supporting records.
  • Prepare a complete, well-evidenced claim for time or money, or respond to one from the other party.
  • Take part effectively in the Engineer's consultation and determination process, on either side of the contract.
  • Issue a Notice of Dissatisfaction when needed and decide when a matter should be escalated to the DAAB.
  • Test proposed Particular Conditions against FIDIC's Golden Principles and recommend clearer wording.
  • Build a contract management plan for a Red Book project from either party's position.

Course Outline

Course Outline:

Day 1

The 2017 Red Book: Structure, Parties, and Risk

  • The FIDIC suite and when the employer-designed, measured form is the right choice
  • Structure of the second edition: agreement, General Conditions, Particular Conditions, and schedules
  • Priority of documents, interpretation, and the effect of the governing law
  • The Employer's obligations: site access, permits support, and financial arrangements
  • The Contractor's general obligations, securities, subcontractors, and key personnel
  • The Engineer's authority and its limits, as seen from each side of the contract
  • Practical application: participants map obligations and risks in a sample Red Book contract
Day 2

Notices, Program, and Advance Warning

  • The notice regime: form, addressee, content, and the difference from ordinary communications
  • Building a contract communications protocol and a notice and time bar register
  • Program content, submission, review, and revision requirements
  • Advance warning: what must be raised, by whom, and how it affects later entitlement
  • Progress reports, site records, and contemporaneous evidence
  • Extension of time, concurrent delay, and delay damages
  • Deemed consents and no-objections: what follows when a reply is late
  • Practical application: participants draft notices and test them against a delay scenario
Day 3

Quality, Variations, Measurement, and Payment

  • Quality management systems and compliance verification
  • Inspection, testing, rejection, remedial work, and defects liability
  • Variations: instruction, Contractor's objection rights, and value engineering
  • Measurement and valuation under a bill of quantities, including new rates
  • Provisional sums, advance payment, retention, and the payment cycle
  • Taking over, the Defects Notification Period, and final payment
  • Practical application: participants value a variation and prepare the supporting payment application
Day 4

Claims and the Engineer's Determination

  • The single claims procedure for the Employer and the Contractor
  • First notice of a claim, time bars, and the limited relief from them
  • Fully detailed claims, supporting particulars, and continuing effects
  • The Engineer's consultation phase, neutral determination, and deemed outcomes
  • The Notice of Dissatisfaction and enforcing a binding determination
  • Exceptional Events, termination by either party, and termination for convenience
  • Separating a claim from a dispute, and when a contract procedure becomes a formal disagreement
  • Practical application: participants run a claim from first notice to determination in a role play
Day 5

DAAB, Arbitration, and Particular Conditions

  • The standing DAAB: appointment, site visits, informal assistance, and decisions
  • Amicable settlement and arbitration as the final step
  • FIDIC's Golden Principles and common amendments that disturb the balance of risk
  • Governing law issues: limits of liability, delay damages, and mandatory rules
  • One-sided amendments and how tenderers should respond to them
  • Adapting project procedures, templates, and team responsibilities to the second edition's requirements
  • Final workshop: participants develop a Red Book contract management plan for a realistic project dispute

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