II. The FIDIC Conditions of Contract
When examining the FIDIC Conditions of Contract and their treatment of unforeseen…
FIDIC is the acronym for the French version of the International Federation of Consulting…
This activity started in 1957 with the publication of the first edition of the Conditions…
The first editions of the FIDIC Red Book were published jointly by FIDIC and the…
From this first version of the Red Book, FIDIC’s practice to develop contract conditions…
- The first generation of conditions, starting with the Red Book, was expanded to…
- The second generation: the Rainbow Suite, with a first edition in 1999 and a second…
- Other construction related conditions of contract, including the Emerald Book for…
In the first generation, the Red Book underwent a series of new editions,…
Major drafting changes were made in the Fourth Edition of the Red Book of 1987. FIDIC…
In 1963 FIDIC embarked on a new line of contract conditions and published the first…
A second edition of the Yellow Book was issued in 1980. Here, too, FIDIC realised…
… from various regions of the world the comment was frequently made that that the Anglo-Saxon mode of legal expression used in the second edition is difficult to comprehend by persons who do not have English as their mother tongue.…
While attempts were made to improve the language and to create some adaptation with…
Finally, in 1995, a third type of contract conditions was issued by FIDIC in this…
FIDIC then revamped its contract conditions completely. In 1999 it issued what it…
- Red Book: Conditions of Contract for Construction, for Building and Engineering…
- Yellow Book: Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design-Build for Electrical and…
- Silver Book: Conditions of Contract for EPC [Engineering, Procurement, Construction]/Turnkey…
- Green Book: The Short Form of Contract.…
In 2017 FIDIC issued a second edition of the Rainbow Suite. This second edition brought…
In the analysis of the approach to unforeseen circumstances I shall consider primarily…
In addition, FIDIC issued a number of other sets of contract conditions which…
- Gold Book: for Design Build and Operate Contracts; first edition 2008;…
- Blue Book: Dredging and Reclamation Works, now in its fourth edition, 2006;…
- Pink Book: for Construction Contracts in a harmonised edition for Multilateral…
- White Book: for a Client/Consultant Model Service Agreement, first issued in 1990,…
In the context of allocating risks for unforeseen circumstances the latest set of…
- Emerald Book, the Conditions of Contract for Underground Works designed by the…
The evolution of these conditions on the one hand shows efforts to develop common…
All of this must be seen against the background of the drafters who are essentially engineers often with direct contract management experience. Lawyers only play a marginal role as outside advisors.…
Lawyers become involved when the contract runs into difficulties, and a language or form of expression that can be understood by the parties to the contract might well avoid many such difficulties.
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