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FID305 (2 weeks) click for pdf brochure

FIDIC Standard Condition of Contract Comprehensive Workshop

Including Benchmarking and Drafting Contract & Conditions

Incorporating Quality Assurance, Professional Good & Best Practices

 

Program Dates  (2 weeks)

 

Worldwide Training Dates USA Training Schedule

  • 9-20 Aug 10 (Kuala Lumpur)

  • 19-30 Sept 10 (Dubai)

  • 27 Oct - 7 Nov 10 (London)

  • 15-26 Nov (Dubai)

  • 16-27 Nov 10 (San Francisco)

 

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

This program will consider the important Contract Provisions of FIDIC Standard Contracts to enable you to understand and/or do the following:-

  • Among Contractor, Owner Consultant, Who is responsible for what?

  • The Range of Possible Contractual Situations that can arise.

  • The Actions required to be Taken to Minimize Delay and your Contractual Liability.

  • Recommended Contractual Procedures.

  • The Documentation to be Generated, including that for resolving usual disputes.

  • Situations under which you should consult your Legal Advisers.

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  • Effectively Perform Contract Administration Responsibilities

  • Benchmark your Contracts with Good & Best International Practices

  • Draft Your Project Contract

  • Analyze Claims

  • Protect Your Organization's Interests on its Projects

PROGRAM CONTENT

This program assists you in understanding, implementing, benchmarking and drafting Contracts based on FIDIC Form of Contract. It leads to skills in Understanding Your Contracts better in terms of enforceability and risk management. This program covers Conditions for International Contracts (contracting parties are from different countries) for Civil and Industrial Projects.

At the end of the program you will be able to Benchmark and Draft your own Contract Conditions against these Industry Standards. Participants will spend 5 days on hands-on benchmarking/ preparing contract conditions to suite their own projects.

In this program you can choose to work on any one of following workshops: Civil Project, Mechanical, Electrical or Oil Industry Projects, Turnkey Contracts, Labour Supply or Service Contract.

  1. Introduction to FIDIC Form of Contracts

  2. Rights, Obligations and Responsibilities of each of the parties to the Contract

  3. Analysis, Recommended Contract Administration Procedures to be followed for each of the Contract Provisions and possible Situations:-

    1. Delegation of Authority. Supervision of Works. Satisfaction of Consultant, and, "When he should be satisfied?" Contractor’s Substitutions. Additional Drawings, Discrepancies, Inspection of Drawings, Foundation Drawings.

    2. Operation Maintenance Instructions. Responsibility for Setting-out accuracy.

    3. Owner Supplied Materials. Lifting equipment, Electricity, Water and Gas.

    4. Program of Works Issues: Status of the different programs, Approval, Rejection, Methods of Working, Checking program, Updating program, Revised program, Acceleration of works, CPM etc..

    5. Extension of Time for Completion: Entitlement, Critical path, Addition and omission to works, Grouping instructions, Extension of time given, Timing of extension of time, Acceleration. Expedite works, Accelerate, Failure to expedite, Progress measurement methods.

    6. Unforeseen Site Conditions: Sub-surface data provided, Disclaimers, Pre-tender site inspection, Obligations of the parties, "Make own interpretations", "Contractor to satisfy himself before tendering...", Expert interpretations, Justified assumptions, Administrative provisions, Tests for: "As-far-as-practicable", Anticipatibility.

    7. Possession of Site: Extent of possession of site, Concurrent occupation, Safety-OSHA, Interference, Foundations.

    8. Testing and Workmanship: Contractual requirements, Investigations to ascertain cause of defect, Failure to check, Ambiguities, Reimbursable tests, Improper rejection, Commercial waste, Inspection and testing during manufacture.

    9. Completion of Works: Test for Substantial Completion, Outstanding Works, Maintenance Certificate, Risks Transfer on Substantial Completion, Final Approval of Works, Unfulfilled Obligations, Completion of Contract.

    10. Variation or Change Orders: Contractual Provisions and its Limitations, Performance Outside Contract Requirements, Variation Work to other Contractors, V.O. to Change Program, Specialized Work, Valuation of Variations. Claims: Dispute Resolution, Submission of Details.

    11. Payment Conditions

    12. Default by Contractor, Default of Owner, Frustration of Contract, Measurement of Works - Standard Method of Measurement (SMM)

    13. Suspension of Works, Suspension for Long Periods, Urgent Repairs or Works.

    14. Escalation Provisions

    15. Warranty, Guarantee, Bonds Insurance.

  4. Design Professional and Engineering Contractor Standard FIDIC Contracts.

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  5. Case Studies

  6. Contract Administration Methodology

  7. Workshop on Drafting a Project Contract

  8. Analyzing Claims Submitted by Contractors & Suppliers

  9. Implementing Quality Assurance in Contract Assurance Function

Program Outcomes and Take-Away/s

Euro Training is in the business of  providing practical useful training programs. Programs that

  1. Help the participant implement improvements in his organization.
  2. Help the participant gain Multi-discipline understanding of the issues so that he can incorporate the needs and expectations of all his stakeholders/ customers in his improvement proposals and actions.
  3. Help build a knowledge framework in which job related experience can be caught and remembered as his experience.

Typical participant will take away a personalized action plan for himself, his business unit or his organization on how to apply the program contents to improve performance. The action plan may have two components:

  1. A Personal Action Plan
  2. A Business Unit/Organizational Action Plan

Benefits to Organization

Sending participant/s to this program will benefit the organization in the following ways

  1. Quickly makes the participants competent, effective and productive on his job. Useful especially for
    1. Training New employees
    2. Competency Building in Existing Employees Transferred to a New Assignment
    3. Training Prior to a New Project or Initiative Planned in the Organization
  2. Create Competency in the employee to perform his job well. including in relation to
    1. Relevant Technical Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
    2. Organizations' Strategic Objectives
    3. Needs and Expectations of the Stakeholders/ Customers (internal & external)
    4. Good Management Practices
    5. Identifying opportunities to Exceed Stakeholder/ Customer Expectations
  3. Create a pool of trained manpower who can cost-effectively disseminate the knowledge to large number of employees inside the organization. This is made possible by Euro Training's unique easy to understand and use methodology based on Checklist & Quality Assurance Approaches.
  4. Euro Training Instructors often act as mentors for your trained employees. A most effective way to ensure effective competency development and application by your motivated staff. We do have consultants available across Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa (Please inquire about our post program mentoring plans)

Participant Individual Career Benefits

  1. You gain a multi-discipline understanding of the issues. Meaning when you make proposals and decisions on your related job you will keep in mind the needs and expectations of ALL the stakeholders/ customers (internal & external)
  2. The action plan you take away will help you make a difference in your business unit or organization. This difference when added to your resume will make you a prime candidate for career advancement in your own organization or in your next job/s.
  3. Understanding and acting with understanding of the Needs and Expectations of your stakeholders/ customers is known to  to enhance Job Satisfaction and reduce Monday Morning Blues.
  4. As one of your stakeholders/ customers is Executive Management, therefore the program ensures you will know the Strategic Imperatives that Drive the Organization's Efforts in your relevant job area. In the process enabling you to make a leadership contribution.

This Program is Intended for…

Those new to the field take away a good multi-discipline understanding of the issues involved in the program works. It helps them become productive quickly and builds in them a knowledge framework that will help identify, understand, classify and remember on the job experiences in his memory.

More experiences participants take-away an individualized action plan as mentioned elsewhere in this technical sheet.

Implementation Teams: This program can be used to train implementation teams where...

  1. a new project or initiative being started in your organization

  2. a new strategic focus is being initiated

  3. just prior to a Consultant being hired to advise the organization.

Each participant will take away a memorable and potentially life changing experience from the program.

No limitations are being placed on who can attend. If you are interested in the Program Outcomes and Takeaways, or, feel you can benefit from the Organizational and Personal Benefits mentioned above - You are Invited to Register for this Program. Program Instructors have the knowledge, experience and access to resources required to customize the program to the specific job related needs of each program group.

All Managers, Engineers and Professional Staff.

Language of  Instruction

Unless otherwise stated the program instruction is in Standard Day-to-Day English. Participants can request the instructor to provide a program vocabulary which will ensure they have no problem understanding the content.

Other language versions are being developed by our consultants and regional partners including program in French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Please do contact us for your specific language needs.

Registration Recommendations

Team Nominations: Since the program aims to ensure the participants have his individualized improvement plan at the end of the program, and foreseeing the effort involved, anticipating resistance and implementation requirements it is recommended that the organization nominate at least two participants together (three will be more desirable to allow for attrition) for this program.

It is anticipated that these 2 or more participants will work together as a team or provide mutual support in order to implement the action plan.

Single nominations will also be accepted for the program. Single nominations are typically used  to:-

  1. Develop personnel skills in Critical Skills and Methodologies covered in this program.

  2. Audit this program for deciding its content and methodology's effectiveness in meeting your organizational needs

  3. Train individuals for Leadership Roles in Business unit or department. Here this program will help the participant coach and lead his team in these Critical Skills and Methodologies. (Program does not typically cover coaching skills but provides the related technical  understanding in an easy to communicate manner. )

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

  1. To register: Please send us an official letter confirming registration (on organizational letterhead). And send us a completed registration form –electronically fill-able is at- available at http://www.eurotraining.com/etl-reg.html . You can request a copy by FAX or Email.

  2. For Program Fee Information Email: fees@eurotraining.com . Payable by Bank Transfer or Bank Draft. Fee information is available at: http://www.eurotraining.com/fees.html .We do not accept fee payment by Credit Cards.

  3. Program Fee is USD $8900 per participant for a 2 week program and includes Course Materials, Certificate, Refreshments and Lunch. (An additional Service Fee of 10% is Charged at Certain Locations including London, Paris and Kuala Lumpur)

  4. Accommodation is not included in Program fee. Special rates will be available at venue hotel for the participants.

  5. Special discount of 10% is offered for participants who pay their fees at least 45 days before start of the program.

  6. Refund will not be considered where the participants cancels his registration less than 3 weeks before start of the program. Alternate nominations will be allowed anytime before program start.

  7. All participants are required to fill in Participant Information form - on first day of the program. Each program Undergoes Customization to Better Meet Participant Present and Future Career Needs. Please be prepared to let the Instructor/s know about your organization's Special Needs, Interests or Initiatives.

  8. It is always useful for participants to bring their existing problems or case studies, work-process flow charts or job related problems for discussion - consideration will be at sole discretion of the program director/s.

  9. Provisional Registration : You can make a provisional registration by sending us an email – an official registration request can be made within 2 weeks. This will ensure we will reserve a seat. IF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION REQUEST IS NOT RECEIVED WITHIN 2 WEEKS OR AT LEAST 2 WEEKS BEFORE PROGRAM START THIS PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION IS AUTOMATICALLY CANCELLED – WE DO REQUEST YOU TO INFORM US ASAP YOU HAVE DECIDED EITHER WAY. All provisional registrations automatically cancel 2 weeks before program start.

  10. Information required for Provisional Registration: Program Title, Location, Dates, Your Organization Name, Your Email Address, Your FAX No and your Mobile Number.

  11. Please note: No Live Voice Requests for Registration or Provisional Registrations.

Contact: Mr Harry Miller, General Manager   

UK Fax : +44 207 6811444

USA FAX +1 650 6492689

UAE Fax +971 84 481032

 

Emails

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WebSites

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Registration Form available at

http://www.eurotraining.com/etl-regn.html

 

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