Book description
This guide will help the contractor's staff overcome some of the
difficulties encountered on a typical international contract using FIDIC forms.
The majority of FIDIC-based contracts use the Red Book (Conditions of
Contract for Construction), so this book concentrates on the use of
those particular forms. Supplementary comments are included in
Appendix C for the Yellow Book (Plant & Design-Build) recommended
for use where the contractor has a design responsibility.
The
Contractor is represented on site by the Contractor's Representative
who carries the overall responsibility for all the Contractor's
on-site activities. In order to provide guidance to the Contractor's
Representative and his staff, this book is divided into five sections:
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A summarized general review of the Red Book from the
Contractor's perspective.
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A review of the activities and duties of the Contractor's
Representative in the same clause sequencing as they appear in
the Red Book.
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A summary of these activities and duties but arranged in
order of their likely time sequence on site. This has the added
intention of providing the Contractor's Representative with a
means of ensuring that documents are not only properly provided
to the Employer and Engineer, but most importantly that they are
provided within the time limits specified in the Contract.
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A selection of model letters is provided which make reference
to the various clauses of the contract requiring the Contractor
to make submissions to the Employer or Engineer.
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Various appendices.
The guide is not intended to be a review of the legal aspects of
FIDIC- based contracts; legal advice should be obtained as and when
necessary, particularly if the Contractor has little or no knowledge
of the local law.
Armed on site with a copy of The Contractor and the FIDIC Contract,
the Contractor's Representative will be more able to avoid contractual
problems rather than spend considerable time and energy resolving
those problems once they have arisen.
Michael D. Robinson, Independent Consulting
Engineer has 50 years of experience with contract management and
contractual issues for major civil engineering projects worldwide. He
has extensive experience with dispute resolution, engineers'
decisions, and dispute resolution boards and he lectures on the FIDIC
Conditions of Contract.
