FIDIC 2017 Notices
A guide to the requirements, content and composition of notices under the FIDIC Red, Yellow and Silver books
Some of the biggest mistakes that contractors make when it comes to claims relate to notices. Such failures include:
- Failure to give notices when obliged to do so by the contract.
- Failure to give notices within the time-frames specified in the contract.
- Failure to properly identify communications as notices.
- Failure to record the necessary information within notices.
- Failure to cite the contractual clause under which the notice is given.
- Failure to address and/or copy the notice to the correct party.
- Failure to deliver to the notice to the place specified in the contract.
- Failure to deliver to the notice by the means of communication specified in the contract.
Definition of a Good Claim According to Roger Knowles
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Claims Class Principal Launches New Book on FIDIC Contracts
Claims Class Principal, Andy Hewitt, has just launched his second book entitled The FIDIC Contracts: Obligations of the Parties.Read more
Construction Claims & Responses is an International Success!
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Construction Claims & Responses Gets More Positive Feedback
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The Obligations of the Parties Under the FIDIC Forms of Contract
Did you know that the FIDIC Red book contains 74 separate obligations of the Employer, 211 of the Contractor and 85 of the Engineer? Well, to be honest, neither did I until I just counted them in the draft of my latest book!Read more
FIDIC Amendments and The Golden Principles
We have all seen it. We receive what we assume is a FIDIC form of contract. But when we examine its contents or the Particular Conditions, we find it has been subject to amendments and changed considerably. FIDIC amendments we often see include:
Added to this, the changes and amendments are often poorly drafted and the final version contains ambiguities and conflicts.
So what we end up with is not what FIDIC intended. In short, it does not do what it says on the tin.
Employers and Engineer’s make these changes in an attempt toRead more