This session will present the FIDIC Practice Note on Dispute Avoidance. The note has been prepared as part of FIDIC’s recently launched Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Forum to highlight awareness of the dispute avoidance function of dispute boards for FIDIC contract users and adjudicators and to ensure that best practice is adopted going forward. Dispute avoidance is critical when it comes to successful project delivery and this newly published practice note should be of enormous assistance to the industry. Resolving and avoiding disputes as early and as quickly as possible is in the best interests of the project itself, as well as all those involved with it and FIDIC strongly recommends that all project stakeholders take on board the content of this helpful note and act on it.