This Forum is for adjudicators, dispute board members, members of the FIDIC President’s List of Adjudicators, dispute board practitioners and other industry participants who are experienced and knowledgeable in applying dispute avoidance techniques and are active in engineering, construction and infrastructure industry to discuss the latest key global issues in the dispute avoidance and adjudication arena.
Engage with members of FIDIC’s Presidents list of Adjudicators and other dispute board practitioners in enlightening discussions about the most critical issues in the dispute avoidance arena and gain valuable insights on the DAAB role and practical strategies for effective conflict management in construction projects.
The session will focus on discussing key elements of decisions. The forum will conclude with key takeaways.
Topic 2. Decisions
In this part of the forum, Forum participants will be divided into six groups to discuss certain aspects of decisions as set out below and provide comments as takeaways to be taken into consideration for the future Practice Note.
Discussion Tables
- Importance of Decisions – this is what the Parties are paying for
- Basic Sections and structure, elements for a valid decision
- Writing style
- Reasoning
- Arrive at conclusions and decisions
- Directions as to payment or other actions