King’s College runs third FIDIC contracts summer school

Kings College Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution to deliver third annual summer training school on FIDIC contracts and their use.

In June 2023 the Kings College Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution in London has once again teamed up with FIDIC to run its third intensive one-week course covering the FIDIC standard form contracts in practice. The FIDIC contract forms lie at the heart of many international projects and this course will build on common law and civil principles in examining how FIDIC provisions and processes operate in various legal systems.

The course, which runs form 27 June to 2 July 2023, will be provided by leading practitioners and is designed to equip talented commercial managers, engineers and lawyers with advanced legal, commercial and practical knowledge in relation to FIDIC contracts and the legal background within which they operate.

The FIDIC 1999 suite and the new FIDIC 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver books will be analysed in detail, with references to older FIDIC contracts such as the 1987 Red Book and 1995 Orange Book when focusing on

experience drawn from particular projects. The 2023 course intake is limited to 28 students and the course fees are £1,800.

The course builds on the success of the previous two years programmes and will provide 30 hours of quality training across a number of contractual areas. Some of the course topics to be covered include procurement strategies, tendering and contract formation, party obligations (employer, engineer and contractor), design responsibility, risk and insurance, early contractor involvement and BIM.

In addition the course will also look at issues around pricing, valuation, payment, variations and claims, change

management and quality management, notices and claims procedures, time, delays, extensions of time, damages and taking over, delay analysis, proving delay and technique selection, quantifying the costs of change, prolongation, disruption, profit and overheads, suspension, termination, force majeure and exceptional events, dispute resolution, dispute boards, amicable settlement and also ICC arbitration.

The course, which will be led by visiting professor Nicholas Gould and professor Renato Nazzini, director of King’s College London Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution, will focus on the common law and civil law legal frameworks within which FIDIC contracts are used and examinee how the FIDIC standard form processes operate in various legal systems.

FIDIC Academy general manager Michael Broadley said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Kings College once more on this FIDIC summer school and to be working alongside such a prestigious academic institution, which is ranked in the top 25 universities worldwide. Our ongoing partnership will enhance the global FIDIC body of knowledge and help the development of professionals in our industry and we look forward to our continuing collaboration to expand FIDIC contract usage to the next generation of users.”