Construction Law, Contract Administration, Project Management

How will you benefit from 2016’s most comprehensive construction law advice?

If your team would benefit from detailed and intensive guidance on all the key aspects of international construction and engineering law then you might want to take a look at the annual Construction Law Summer School.

2016 sessions include:

FIDIC; NEC3; termination & insolvency; time & delay; global claims & disputes; dispute boards; international arbitration; EU procurement regime; tendering liabilities; civil code; ADR. See more topics on the agenda.

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Construction Law, Contract Administration, Project Management, Statutory Adjudication

CMGuide’s Director Highly Commended for Australian Brooking Prize in Construction Law

The Founder and Director of Construction Management Guide, Samer Skaik, was highly commended for his submission ‘Taking Statutory Adjudication to the Next Level: Legislative Review Mechanisms of Erroneous Determinations’  in the 2016 Australian Society of Construction Law Brooking Prize. The paper effectively summarizes the core merits of his PhD research in that area.

The criteria used for awarding commendations include originality of thoughts and contribution to the construction law or its application in the industry as well as the quality of analysis, the freshness of ideas and the value of the work.

A more detailed version of that paper will also appear in the upcoming edition of International Construction Law Review Journal. …

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Construction Law, Contract Administration, Project Management

Can alliancing work in the Gulf?

By STUART JORDAN

In the eyes of many people in our industry, the Middle East construction industry is old fashioned and not very open to new ideas. This view implies that new ideas are good ideas – which isn’t always the case.
Certainly, in the case of construction procurement models, the Gulf remains quite attached to single-stage competitive lowest price tender selection. Everyone knows where they stand and, as between employers and contractors, they stand quite far apart from each other! Relationships tend to be arm’s-length and driven by the formalities of the tender process. And the terms of the contracts formed in this way tend also to be tougher on contractors than we see in other parts of the world. …

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Construction Law

Open up new opportunities with the International Construction Law Masters

 

Enrol on the International Construction Practice & Law Masters to increase your knowledge, everyday business skills and career opportunities.

The course is run by the University of Stuttgart, one of Europe’s most prominent science and engineering universities, and allows you the option of either completing the programme online or choosing to attend part-time lectures at the university. …

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Construction Law, Statutory Adjudication

Is ‘reference date’ deemed an essential jurisdictional fact for validity of Adjudications?

In Australia, the courts have been inconsistent in their approaches to define jurisdictional facts upon which the jurisdiction of adjudicator can be determined. A very recent example is the case of Lewence Construction Pty Ltd v Southern Han Breakfast Point Pty Ltd [2015] NSWCA 288. …

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Construction Law, Statutory Adjudication

Statutory Adjudication Reform: New discussion papers in ACT, NSW and Queensland

Apparently, the Appetite for further Reform of Security of Payment Laws in major Australian States is evolving. You might be interested to make submissions for the very recent discussion papers in the three States. The NSW and Qld papers have very interesting information on the operation of the SOP regime. Here is the detail:

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Construction Law, Contract Administration, Project Management

FIDIC’s Contract Users’ Series comes to Dubai

FIDIC’s official Contract Users’ Series travels the globe delivering best practice advice for selecting, using and managing the range of FIDIC contracts.

It’s the turn of the Middle East – the 7th FIDIC Middle East Contract Users’ Series will take place next month in Dubai.

As a reader of CMGuide you’re eligible for a 10% saving. …

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Construction Law, Contract Administration

The risks of adopting informal contracts

By STUART JORDAN

What proportion of construction projects in the Middle East are carried out under informal contracts, which would include verbal and partially written contracts, preliminary statements such as a memorandum of understanding (MoU), heads of terms (HoT) or some sort of letter of award (LoA)?
While I don’t have figures for this but from my experience it is a lot – maybe half. More worrying, my main experience of this comes from dealing with disputes. …

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