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I’m always sad to see another year go but I do enjoy taking a few minutes to sit and think of all that Claims Class has achieved in those 12 short months. Of course, not everything was smooth sailing and we experienced our fair share of challenges too but hey, it wouldn’t be as much fun if everything was easy would it?
If you haven’t already guessed, today’s post looks back at 2014 and explores some of the exciting things to watch out for in 2015. So sit back, grab a cup of whatever takes your fancy, and have a read…
Claims Class saw its fair share of countries this year and delivered its Construction Claims Intensive Training Course in Qatar, Dubai, South Africa and London.
We achieved new levels of success in Qatar and reached full capacity for the course in January 2014. We put this down to the increase in construction projects surrounding the 2020 World Cup and the issues that many are facing on construction projects.
Based on your feedback, we developed a new one-day course on the Principles of Forensic Delay Analysis towards the end of 2013. We’ve only delivered the course once so far due to the busy schedule of our partners who help us to present this course but we hope to see new course dates set for 2015. We are also developing a two-day version of this course which will be much more technical for those Primavera people out there.
Most exciting, and again based on your feedback, we developed a new course – Understanding Claims Under the FIDIC Contracts towards the end of 2014. We launched earlier this month and received great feedback from the attendees and look forward to setting 2015 course dates. We also tried something new for this course and delivered the course partly over a weekend so it fell on Saturday and Sunday. The feedback on this was good and we’re now considering running more courses over a weekend to accommodate those who struggle to get time off work to attend training courses. What’s your opinion on this? Please tell us.
Our Construction Claims Distance Learning Course took on a life of it’s own in 2014. It seems that interest in the course is really building due to referrals from existing students (thank you) and improvements in our marketing / social media activity which has helped us to reach a wider audience.
As a result of this, we now have students of 19 different nationalities working in 21 different countries currently studying the course and that number continues to grow.
We look forward to more students graduating from the course this year and hope to welcome new ones.
If you’re an avid Claims Class follower then you’ll know by now that the face behind it all is Andy Hewitt. He developed all Claims Class courses and when he’s not doing his day job (consultancy work) he’s presenting our courses and tutoring our students.
Andy likes a challenge and decided that being the author of one book, Construction Claims & Responses, wasn’t enough so he decided to write another one, this time on the FIDIC forms of contract entitled, The FIDIC Contracts: Obligations of the Parties.
The book was published by Wiley Blackwell in May 2014 and is doing well so far. Let’s hope the book sales inspire Andy to write something else worthy for the industry!
We were working on a lot behind the scenes this year and some of our notable successes include:
So there’s our reflections on the year, look out for our next blog post on plans for 2015!
We’ve got articles, case studies, a new top tip and news of a new book launch for the industry. We’re particularly proud of the last one because the book was written by our Principal, Andy Hewitt, and it’s getting great reviews so far. Read it, learn from it, enjoy it and share it!
Read the Claims Class Quarterly | Issue 4
We recently sent a launch notification out to our Claims Class database but since this is big news, we thought a Blog post wouldn’t hurt either. The official announcement of the launch can be viewed here.
It’s also worth mentioning that Claims Class Distance Learning students / graduates and those who have attended our Intensive Training Courses are also in with a chance of winning a complimentary copy of the book through our referral scheme. Read the announcement for details!
Finally, if anyone does purchase a copy, we would be really interested to hear your feedback…happy reading!
I just heard from my publisher that Construction Claims & Responses has sold almost 1,200 copies in the 20 months since publication. We never expected this to be a major seller and the first print run was only 1,000 copies, so we are very pleased with this. This also goes to show that there is a distinct lack of publications on the market that deal with the subject matter. Hopefully my next book will be just as well received!
