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International Federation of Consulting Engineers FIDIC

International Federation of Consulting Engineers FIDIC. FIDIC Contracts and Infrastructure Development Athens, 28 March 2012. Dr William Godwin Barrister, London. International Federation of Consulting Engineers. Range of the FIDIC Contracts.

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International Federation of Consulting Engineers FIDIC

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  1. International Federation of Consulting Engineers FIDIC FIDIC Contracts and Infrastructure Development Athens, 28 March 2012 • Dr William Godwin • Barrister, London International Federation of Consulting Engineers

  2. Range of the FIDIC Contracts • FIDIC contracts are at the heart of infrastructure projects all over the world. • This is in part because of the range of FIDIC standard forms available. ‘Red Book’ (Construction) • Employer design • Measurement Basis • Engineer • Even-handed Balance of Risk

  3. ‘MDB Red Book’ (Multilateral Development Banks Harmonised Edition) • May 2005, revised March 2006 • Standardised form where project MDB financed ‘Yellow Book’ (Plant and Design-Build) • Contractor Design • Lump Sum Price • Engineer • Even-handed Balance of Risk

  4. ‘Gold Book’ (Design-Build-Operate) • Contractor Design/Operation • Lump Sum Price • Employer’s Representative • Even-handed Balance of Risk ‘Silver Book’ (EPC/Turnkey) • Contractor Design • Lump Sum Price • No Engineer • Contractor Risk

  5. Which Contract? Single point of responsibility? • The design-build forms: Yellow, Gold and Silver Books • Operation and Maintenance: the Gold Book Certainty of Time and Cost? • The Silver Book • ‘EPC’ : Engineer, Procure, Construct

  6. Unforeseeable difficulties/physical conditions • Silver: No extension of time or additional payment for Contractor unless otherwise stated in Contract (cl 4.12). • Yellow and Gold: Extension of time and additional payment (but not profit) if conditions were ‘Unforeseeable’ ( in that no experienced Contractor at the date of tender could be expected to have foreseen them) (cl 4.12).

  7. Design Responsibility • Yellow, Gold and Silver: Contractor to design, execute and complete the works in accordance with the Contract so that when completed the Works will be fit for the purposes for which they were intended as defined in the Contract (cl 4.1) • Silver: If error in Employer’s Requirements no additional time or payment for Contractor unless exception within cl 5.1 (a)- (d) applies

  8. Yellow and Gold: Additional time and payment (plus reasonable profit) if the error was such that an experienced contractor exercising due care would not have discovered the error when scrutinising the ER by the relevant time specified in the contract. • Front end engineering design (FEED) • Multiple turnkeys

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