Applications now open for 2025 FIDIC Contracts Kings College Summer School

28 Jan 2025

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Registrations are now being taken for this year’s FIDIC-Kings College Summer School, the popular annual one-week training course covering the FIDIC standard form of contracts in practice.

The course, organised by FIDIC Academy, runs from Tuesday 1 July to Saturday 5 July 2025 and is offered to senior executives and designed to equip commercial managers, engineers and lawyers with advanced legal, commercial and practical knowledge about FIDIC contracts and the legal background in which they operate.

FIDIC contracts are at the heart of many international projects, providing a robust contractual framework for project execution and delivery. A good understanding of the applicable law is required and this well-regarded intensive course, delivered by experienced trainers and legal professionals, builds on common law and civil principles and considers how FIDIC standard form processes operate in various legal systems.

The FIDIC 1999 suite of contracts and the new FIDIC 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver books are analysed during the course and reference will also be made to older FIDIC contracts, such as the 1987 Red Book and 1995 Orange Book, in order to focus on particular aspects of the contracts used in practice.

The comprehensive range of course topics includes: -

  • Procurement strategies, tendering and contract formation.
  • Party obligations- Employer, Engineer and Contractor.
  • Design responsibility, risk and insurance.
  • Early contractor involvement and BIM.
  • Prices, valuation, payment, variations and claims.
  • Change management and quality management.
  • Notices and claims procedures.
  • Time, delays, extensions of time, damages and taking over.
  • Delay analysis, proving delay and technique selection.
  • Quantifying the costs of change, prolongation, disruption, profit and overheads.
  • Suspension, termination, force majeure and exceptional events.
  • Dispute resolution, dispute boards, amicable settlement and ICC arbitration.
  • Workshops including delay analysis, practical issues of quantum and dispute board fundamentals.

The week-long course will build participants’ commercial knowledge, deepen specialist expertise and broaden professional networks. Participants can be totally confident that they are receiving the best possible training as the course venue, the Dickson Poon School of Law is recognised as one of the best law schools in the world and the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution is recognised globally as the leader in its field.

The course has also been developed in consultation with FIDIC executives, is endorsed by FIDIC Academy and run by expert legal practitioners who will blend documentation with legal application and focus on legal issues on the mechanics of FIDIC contract, and the issues and problems that arise in practice.

All successful participants on the course will receive a Certification of Attendance, jointly issued by FIDIC and King’s College London. The registration deadline for the summer school is Monday 24 March 2025 and with places expected to book up fast, early registration is strongly advised.

Click here for full details of the 2025 FIDIC Contracts Kings College Summer School and to register for a place.

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