New contract reprints and guide launched

In a significant development, FIDIC has published reprints of its key contracts together with a new guide to their use. Contracts committee chair, Vincent Leloup, reports.

FIDIC has launched a new series of reprints of its key contract documents, which include amendments and improvements to ensure that these industryleading documents remain up to date and take account of latest industry developments. A new and comprehensive guide to their use has also been published.

With the full backing of the FIDIC contracts committee and the FIDIC board, the 2022 Reprints and a new FIDIC 2017 Contracts Guide have been published to take on board a number of comments and queries raised by users, which have identified further amendments to improve the use of the contracts in practice so helping to keep these leading industry construction contracts relevant and easy to use in a changing industry landscape.

The reprints include the following contracts: -

• FIDIC Construction Contract 2nd Edition (2017 Red Book, Reprinted 2022 with amendments).

• FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Contract 2nd Edition (2017 Yellow Book Reprinted 2022 with amendments).

• FIDIC EPC/Turnkey Contract 2nd Edition (2017 Silver Book Reprinted 2022 with amendments).

The new FIDIC Contracts Guide 1st Edition 2022 (2017 Editions, as reprinted in 2022 with amendments) offers a comprehensive and practical overview of FIDIC’s suite of contracts and for the first time outlines key guidance on the use of these industry leading documents.

Commenting on the launch of the reprints and the new guide, FIDIC president Tony Barry said: “The launch of the reprints and the new guide is a very significant development for FIDIC. We are proud to provide the global engineering and construction sector with the contract documentation it needs to work smarter and more efficiently and these newly launched publications are updated and amended to take into account feedback from the industry.”

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