Conference programme
The conference will be online and delivered in-house by FIDIC in May 2023.
DAY 1 - Wednesday 10 May 2023
Time: 10:45 - 15:30 CET
The first day of the conference will hear from a keynote speaker who will set the scene for the two-day event and then the main sessions will explore some of the key issues facing contract users in the EMEA region. These include working with FIDIC contracts against a background of rising global inflation, conflict and increasing costs – and how the FIDIC contracts can assist in working under such conditions – and an overview and examples of EMEA regional project experiences with FIDIC contracts, with examples from the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa and Europe. Following these sessions, a series of discussion tables will look at the key issues of FIDIC contracts in the field and the engineer’s perspective, ESG and the net zero agenda and Arbitration.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
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11:30 AM - 12:40 PM |
Covid-19 and war in Ukraine have caused high levels of inflation globally. This session will look at how construction projects are affected by inflation, increases in cost of materials, labour and other inputs and what measures are available to project participants to manage cost increases. This session will examine application of price adjustment under FIDIC 1999 and 2017 contracts and look at how the cost adjustment clause is used in different jurisdictions relevant to the EMEA region.
Moderator:
Vincent Leloup - FIDIC Contracts Committee Adriana Spassova - EQE Control OOD Peter Collie - FIDIC Contracts Committee Rob Morson - Pinsent Masons Refki El-Mujtahed - Besix Construct Group ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:40 PM - 12:45 PM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:45 PM - 1:55 PM |
Moderator:
Key topics:
Jafar Khan - Mott MacDonald Suzannah Fairbairn - Dentons and Co Patrick McPherson - Hogan Lovells Courtney Rothery - CMS Owain John Mills - Red Sea Global ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2:15 PM - 3:30 PM |
Martina Hess - CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter GmbH Nino Tsaturova - Intelligent Solution LLC Serdar Hakkacirmaz - Eptisa Servicios de Ingeniería, S.L. Mark Etheridge - Gopa-Infra ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Jeremy Glover - Fenwick Elliott LLP Rami Ismail - Morganti ksa -Solid foundation Hugo Fonseca - AD3PT Rebecca Major - White & Case LLP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Husni Madi - FIDIC Contracts Committee Fatima Balfaqeeh - RKAH Legal Consultancy Mohamed Abdel Wahab - Zulficar & Partners Law Firm Stephen Hibbert - Hibbert.com Asel El Housan - AEH UK Limited ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
DAY 2 - Thursday 11 May 2023
Time: 10:30 - 15:30 CET
The second day of the conference will open with an opportunity to hear from members of the FIDIC Contracts Committee about what is on their current and emerging agenda of work and includes an opportunity to ask questions of members. Main sessions will then focus on the practical use of FIDIC contracts, including an update on the 2022 reprints of the FIDIC contracts and the guide and a discussion on some of the use of 2017 contracts in the region. Another session will look at how the new FIDIC Green Book 2021 is helping to manage project risk with less resources and the final session will examine the ever-topical issue of Dispute Avoidance, offering a regional perspective on the use of dispute boards/DAABs by giving a comparative perspective on their use across the EMEA region.
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10:30 AM - 11:25 AM |
Moderator:
Vincent Leloup - FIDIC Contracts Committee Nael Bunni - Bunni & Associates Mahmoud Abu Hussein - FIDIC Contracts Committee Jafar Khan - Mott MacDonald Husni Madi - FIDIC Contracts Committee kiri Parr - Kiri Parr Pty Ltd Adriana Spassova - EQE Control OOD Peter Collie - FIDIC Contracts Committee ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:25 AM - 12:35 PM |
This session will present the 2022 reprints and the guide and discuss some of the use of 2017 contracts in the region. Moderator:
kiri Parr - Kiri Parr Pty Ltd Daduna Kokhreidze - FIDIC Christopher Seppälä - White & Case LLP Waleed El Nemr - Bechtel Siobhan Fahey - FIDIC President's List Adjudicator ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12:50 PM - 2:00 PM |
This session will discuss the key aspects of this contract in the regional context:
Moderator:
Mahmoud Abu Hussein - FIDIC Contracts Committee Vincent Leloup - FIDIC Contracts Committee Yulia Martyushina - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) China Irwin - LALIVE Nabeel Khokhar - Construction Contract Consulting ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2:05 PM - 3:15 PM |
This session will provide a comparative perspective on the use of the dispute boards across the EMEA region. This will include where they are used successfully and where the parties have removed the DAAB as part of their contract requirement. The session will also look at their treatment under various jurisdictions. The speakers will highlight the differences between the DAAB and Arbitration and how each of them are conducted. Moderator:
Husni Madi - FIDIC Contracts Committee Dean Ryburn - Dentons & Co Yasemin Cetinel - Cetinel Law Firm Nicholas Gould - Fenwick Elliott Jason Smit - Pinsent Masons ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | ![]() |