Quality Management Under FIDIC Contracts
Overview
Course title: Quality Management Under FIDIC Contracts
Level: Introductory
Mode: On-demand
Language: English, with translations in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish
Price: FREE
Training hours: 0.75h (min)
A thorough understanding of the employer’s requirements embedded into a construction contract, paired with careful implementation and continuous oversight during construction, allows all parties to achieve targeted quality standards while reducing expensive defects and avoiding extended disagreements.
This 30-minute on-demand course offers participants insight into Quality Management as applied to contracts governed by FIDIC Conditions of Contract.
The course content covers essential FIDIC provisions, delineates the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, and illustrates the evolution from basic inspection to integrated quality assurance. It underscores the importance of robust quality protocols for the success and sustainability of construction projects and emphasises contract management considerations related to quality.
Who should attend
This essential on-demand course is designed for professionals involved in capital projects and asset management. Within teams, everyone must understand their role in contributing to knowledge-sharing, which allows for informed decision-making and the prevention of common errors.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the Fundamentals of Quality in Construction: Understand the “Golden Triangle” (Cost, Time, and Quality), inspection vs assurance and recognise the critical impact that poor quality has on project viability and long-term sustainability.
- Navigate Key FIDIC Provisions: Identify and interpret specific provisions within the 2017 FIDIC editions regarding contractor obligations, workmanship, testing, approvals and the management of non-conforming work.
- Differentiate Roles and Responsibilities: Clarify the distinct responsibilities of the Employer, Contractor, and the authority of the Engineer regarding quality matters, and resolve common misunderstandings – such as whether an Engineer’s approval relieves a Contractor of their underlying liability.
- Implement Practical Quality Systems: Gain insights into developing Quality Assurance (QA) systems and Compliance Verification Systems (CVS) that satisfy contractual requirements. Understand the process of dealing with defects, remedial works and the Defects Notification Period (DNP).
- Financial management and change management: Understand the financial management provisions associated with poor quality, use of other tools such as retention money and performance security in the event of poor quality. Learn about proactively managing non-conforming work, rejection, and remedial actions to prevent quality issues from escalating into significant delays or financial claims.
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Course format
Delivered via an on-demand format on FIDIC Academy’s eLearning platform. Participants have 72 hours to complete the course from the first access date.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites for this course.
Technical access
This online course requires that participants have access to a computer with an internet connection.
Official FIDIC Academy certificate
FIDIC Academy will provide a certificate of completion to all participants who successfully watched the course video, passed the quiz, and completed the on-demand course evaluation. The participants who do not meet this requirement will not receive the certificate of completion.
This course is free of charge.
If you have any questions or require support, please contact the FIDIC Academy team at training@fidic.org.
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