Event Details

Date(s):

Date: 18 and 25 September, 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 October and 6 November 2025

Time:

10.00am-11.30pm CET (09.00am-10.30pm BST)

Place:

Online

Price:

£500.00 (+ VAT) for the whole course of 8 weeks. £75.00 (+ VAT) for any one week.

Cornerstone Seminars are getting together with Howard Kennedy’s International Construction team to put on a series of 8 weekly online seminars. Starting on Thursday 18 September, this course will cover

• The Fair and Neutral Engineer
• Design Responsibilities
• Delay claims
• Claims for money
• FIDIC 1999 and 2017/2022

Speakers will include Victoria Tyson, Jo Clarke, Gabriel Mulero Clas, James Reader and Edward Corbett. Each 90-minute session will include a talk, an interactive workshop and lots of time for Q&A and discussion.

To learn more or to register for the course, call +44 (0)20 3062 3044 or email info@cornerstone-seminars.com

Course content:

1. Introduction to FIDIC contracts – 18 September 2025.

• FIDIC’s Rainbow
• Particular Conditions
• Golden Principles

2. Role of Engineer and other parties – 25 September 2025.

• Engineer as designer and administrator
• Agent or independent?
• Principle functions of Engineer and Employer

3. Design risk under Red Yellow and Silver – 2 October 2025.

• Traditional v Design-build
• Fitness for purpose
• Yellow and Silver books risk allocation

4. Time programme and delay – 9 October 2025.

• Time for Completion
• Time at large
• The risk of delay
• Delay damages

5. Delay problem areas– 16 October 2025.

• Acceleration
• Concurrency
• Critical path delay analysis

6. Claims for money – 23 October 2025.

• Ground conditions
• Geological Baseline Reports
• Prolongation costs

7. Other claims for money – 30 October 2025.

• Variations
• Force Majeure and change of law
• Disruption

8. Dispute avoidance and resolution – 6 November 2025.

• DAB and DAAB
• Decisions and enforcement
• Arbitration awards

Each session will start 10.00 CET (09.00 UK)

Each session will last 90 mins and comprise a talk, a workshop problem and plenty of time for Q&A and discussion.

Every delegate will get a certificate of attendance to show that they completed the course or which components they attended.

Trainers

This course will be run by the following trainers, please click on their names to view full details:

Edward Corbett

Edward Corbett is acknowledged as one of the world’s most experienced international construction lawyers with an unsurpassed reputation as a FIDIC expert.

Victoria Tyson

Victoria Tyson is an award-winning contentious construction lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in large, complex international construction and engineering disputes. She has particular expertise in the FIDIC forms of construction contract and international arbitration.

Joanne Clarke

Jo Clarke is a solicitor advocate who focuses on international construction and engineering disputes. She has particular expertise in complex international arbitration and FIDIC contracts.

Gabriel Mulero Clas

Gabriel is an international construction lawyer with over 11 years’ experience in large multi-million-pound disputes and arbitrations worldwide as an advisor, representative and advocate. He is bilingual in Spanish and English.

James Reader

James Reader is a solicitor with more than 20 years of experience in dispute resolution. He has acted as counsel in a number of international arbitration proceedings under the ICC and SIAC rules.

Who should attend?

This seminar will be of great interest to all those actively involved in international projects, including representatives from Consulting Engineers, Construction Employers, Contractors, Funding Agencies, Employers, Insurers, and Manufacturing Organisations as well as representatives from the Legal and other Consulting Professions.

How to register

To register call +44 (0)20 3062 3044 or email info@cornerstone-seminars.com.

The full training course fee is payable in advance and includes the cost of course tuition, course certificate and Cornerstone documentation, but excludes copies of the FIDIC Contracts Books to be discussed during the workshop, which may be purchased separately from the FIDIC Bookshop www.FIDIC.org/bookshop

Cancellations, refunds and transfers

Refunds (less a 10% charge to cover administration costs) will be made for cancellations received in writing no later than 14 days before the event. After this date, it is regretted that refunds of fees will not be made.

Substitutions and Transfers can be made at any time. It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of Cornerstone Seminars to change the contents or timing of the programme, the speakers or the date. In the unlikely event of the programme being cancelled by Cornerstone, we will automatically make a full refund of any payments made to Cornerstone.