Drafting and Managing Engineering Project Contracts

An international legal expert and consultant in legislation and contracts, he has over 25 years of experience in commercial and administrative law and arbitration. He has participated in preparing and delivering hundreds of training courses across the Arab world and is considered a leading specialist in legal risk management, contract drafting, and contractual dispute resolution.

Developing the skills of participants and informing them of the technical, legal, financial, and procedural principles, etc., for drafting engineering project contracts – including FIDIC, B.O.T. and various contracting contracts – and the rules for managing and implementing them, and explaining the most important problems and disputes that may arise during the implementation of those contracts, the reasons for them, and ways to settle/resolve those disputes, and working to avoid the emergence of the causes of those disputes in the future.

The program addresses many important topics, including:

• Elements, conditions, types, and classifications of engineering project contracts.

• Requirements for preparing and drafting modern engineering project contracts, including:

  • Legal requirements

  • Linguistic requirements

  • Technical requirements

  • Financial requirements

  • Tactical requirements

• Technical and legal conditions for drafting engineering project contracts.

• Judicial and legal principles and scholarly interpretations concerning engineering project contracts.

• Principles and procedures governing the administrative and legal security of engineering project contracts.

• Major problems and disputes related to engineering project contracts and disputes involving other parties.

• Contractual claims and change orders during the execution of engineering project contracts.

• Sources of claims in engineering projects and causes of cost increases.

• Methods for handling claims in various types of engineering project contracts.

• Procedures used by the project owner to pursue claims against contractors.

• Methods and procedures related to change orders.

• Delays in construction projects and their causes.

• The decennial liability (ten-year guarantee) provided by contractors to ensure the structural safety of buildings.

• Liability of the contractor and engineer.

• Rules for drafting contractual correspondence.

• Functions of contract appendices and how to interpret them in relation to the main contract.

• Rules for activating and implementing contract clauses.

• Project execution schedules.

• Changes, additions, and deletions (change orders in construction contracts).

• Assignment of contracts.

• Subcontracting (organizing the relationship between the main contractor and subcontractors).

• Withdrawal of work from the contractor.

• Final acceptance and payment certificates.

• Circumstances that allow a party to terminate the contract and the consequences thereof.

• Major problems and disputes related to engineering contracts.

• Preventive measures to avoid disputes in engineering project contracts in the future.

  • Overview of arbitration rules and their differences from arbitration laws in other countries.

  • Arbitration clause and arbitration agreement.

  • Conditions for resorting to international arbitration.

  • Arbitration rules under the Paris Convention.

  • Arbitration awards under UNCITRAL rules.

  • Key principles governing domestic arbitration.

  • Authority of arbitration awards before courts.

  • Enforcement of arbitration awards in more than one country.

  • Effects of arbitration:

    • Effects between the disputing parties

    • Effects toward third parties

  • Annulment of arbitration awards (grounds and consequences).

  • Practical applications and workshops in drafting engineering contracts and resolving related disputes.

• • Workshops

  • Guided discussions

  • Open discussions

  • Lectures

  • Role-playing

  • Case studies

  • Practical applications

  Training tools:
  Computers, presentation equipment, whiteboards, papers, and pens.