FIDIC – King’s College London 2026 Summer School

Title: FIDIC – King’s College 2026 Summer School
Mode: In-person
When: Tuesday 30 June – Saturday 4 July 2026, 09:00 to 18:00 (BST)
Location: King’s College London, Strand Campus
Language: English
Registration: £2,000

Programme flyer: FIDIC KCL 2026 Flyer

Please email Susan Hart at ccldr@kcl.ac.uk to register your expression of interest for the programme. She will be your first point of contact throughout the programme.

Course description
This one-week training course covers the FIDIC standard form contracts in practice. FIDIC contracts lie at the heart of many international projects, and a good understanding of applicable law is required. This intensive course builds on common law and civil principles and considers how FIDIC standard form processes operate in various legal systems.

The FIDIC 1999 suite of contracts and the new FIDIC 2017 Red, Yellow and Silver Books are analysed. Reference will also be made to older FIDIC contracts, such as the 1987 Red Book and 1995 Orange Book, in order to focus on particular aspects of the contracts used in practice.

The course is offered to senior executives and is designed to equip talented commercial managers, engineers and lawyers with advanced legal, commercial and practical knowledge about FIDIC contracts and the legal background within which they operate. The course is run by leading practitioners and focuses on the common and civil law legal frameworks within which the contracts are used.

Course topics include:

• Procurement strategies, tendering and contract formation
• Party obligations- Employer, Engineer and Contractor
• Design responsibility, risk and insurance
• Early contractor involvement and BIM
• Prices, valuation, payment, variations and claims
• Change management and quality management
• Notices and claims procedures
• Time, delays, extensions of time, damages and taking over
• Delay analysis, proving delay and technique selection
• Quantifying the costs of change, prolongation, disruption, profit and overheads
• Suspension, termination, force majeure and exceptional events
• Dispute resolution, dispute boards, amicable settlement and ICC arbitration
• Workshops including delay analysis, practical issues of quantum and dispute board
  fundamentals

This week-long course has been designed to build your commercial knowledge, deepen your specialist expertise, and broaden your intellectual professional network.