FIDIC Academy – for quality contracts and business training

Contract users from around the world can take advantage of a wide range of training courses delivered via the FIDIC Academy. With quality as standard, there’s something for everyone with an interest in all aspects of the FIDIC contract suite, reports academy general manager Michael Broadley.

As ever, recent months have been a busy time for FIDIC’s contracts academy team. Here at the FIDIC Academy, we have been running courses on many of the key aspects of our leading contracts suite as well as well as starting to hold some business practice courses to widen the remit of our offering.

Our online courses have been well attended with well over 100 construction professionals attending recent training on the practical use of FIDIC conditions, the FIDIC Future Leaders Management Course, management and administration of contracts, understanding DABs and claims under the 199 and 2017 FIDIC suite.

We’re particularly excited about delivering a new specialist one-day workshop on Wednesday 7 December 2022 which will give users a better understanding of the contractual entitlements provided by the FIDIC General Conditions of Contract and their legal merits in different project environments, particularly in claims situations.

Pitfalls and Deadlocks: A Golden Collection of Case Studies from Expert Practitioners will identify some of the numerous contractual issues that may arise during the execution of the FIDIC Conditions of Contract and should be a must-attend event with leading experts presenting. Also looking ahead, FIDIC has partnered with software company Riskwell to deliver a new online workshop, An Introduction to Decision Risk Management for Engineers. The two-and-a-half-hour workshop, which will take place on Wednesday 14 December 2022 at 2pm CET, focuses on introductory concepts of risk management, tailored towards the engineering business environment. This course is the first of a number of standalone business practice courses (away from contracts), as we widen the remit of the academy’s offering. There is also a cyber security on-demand course being launched as of 21 November 2022 and we are looking forward in 2023 to the academy developing more business practices

courses using both on demand and ILT (live instructor led training) online to complement its suite of contract training.

In other news, we have also recently finished populating the academy governance structure with prominent figures from the business world with key experience and expertise of the engineering and construction industry. The first meetings of these key figures will take place at the end of Q4 this year.

Last but not least, a new standalone FIDIC Academy website will be launched in Q1 2023. The academy is also in the process of acquiring accreditation of its current education and training offers where participants can officially log continued professional development points. This is part of the quality recognition and controls we are planning to improve and validate the training and courses we offer.

So, it’s a busy time for the FIDIC Academy, with much to offer our stakeholders across the global contracts world.