FIDIC publishes:
- Information about FIDIC,
with booklets such as FIDIC Info, a small information
and address book published
annually, and FIDIC Statutes and Bylaws.
- Information for clients, including guides for Quality Based Selection,
Tendering Procedures, Consultant Selection and Quality of Construction and other valuable
documents about the use of consulting
engineers.
- Information for consulting engineers, with
manuals and guides on topics such as Risk
Management, environment, Project Sustainability Management, capacity building, transfer of
technology, Quality Management, Business Integrity Management, dispute
resolution techniques, insurance, law and
other business issues.
Contracts and Agreement
The backbone of the body of FIDIC's publications is FIDIC's selection
of contracts and agreements.
FIDIC publishes conditions of contract for:
- EPC/Turnkey Projects
- Plant and Design Build
Contract (updates Yellow Book and Orange Book)
- The Short Form
- Construction Contract (updates
the Red Book)
- Works of Civil Engineering
Construction (The Red Book)
- Electrical & Mechanical
Works (The Yellow Book)
- Design-Build and Turnkey
(The Orange Book)
These documents are available from the FIDIC Bookshop
in printed and electronic versions, and a
short text tells you how to choose the right contract.
All FIDIC contracts
standard conditions of contract between a
client/employer and a contractor. The consulting
engineer is not a party to these contracts, but
plays a role as the employer's representative to
see that the contract is properly carried out.
Additionally, FIDIC publishes a
Client/Consultant Model Services Agreement (The
White Book), which is the agreement often used by
the client when appointing a consultant as his
employer's representative for the above
contracts.
This "rainbow" of
FIDIC contracts/agreements provides the major
portion of the total income from publication
sales to FIDIC.FIDIC's volunteer committees,
who draft nearly all of FIDIC's documents, are
continuously drafting or revising and keeping
FIDIC's publications informative and up-to-date.
Representation impact
Equally important for FIDIC is
the representation and impact of its
publications. Most people first learn about the
Federation by reading or using its business
practice publications and its standard conditions of
contract. FIDIC's image is
enhanced by its publication of quality documents.
The most pronounced example of
this impact on the Federation's impact are FIDIC's Conditions of
Contract for Works of Civil Engineering
Construction ("The Red Book", owing to
its red cover), now in its fourth edition. Many
people call the Red Book "FIDIC" or
"the FIDIC", mistakenly using the
Federation's acronym (taken from its original
French name, Fédération Internationale des
Ingénieurs-Conseils) for its best known
publication, unaware of the Federation, but
certainly aware of its Red Book.
This confusion is not
surprising, when one considers that the Red Book, now replaced
by the Construction Contract, has been used as the general conditions in standard
bidding documents of many development banks,
including the World Bank. From 2005, the multilateral
development banks (MDB) agreed to a MDB-harmonised version of the
Construction Contract for incorporation in their standard bidding documents.
Financial impact
FIDIC's publications fulfill an
important and essential role for the well being
of the Federation. Revenues from publication
sales account for nearly half of FIDIC's income,
with most of the other half coming from Member
Association (MA) subscriptions.
FIDIC's annual income from
publications has grown from about SFr. 300,000.-
in the late 1980's to nearly SFr. 800,000.-
today. This growth in publications sales has
allowed FIDIC to reduce the unit rates for
membership subscriptions by nearly one-half over
the past decade, an important impact when one
considers that more than half of FIDIC's Member
Association's are in developing countries, many
of which have weak currencies.
With FIDIC being a non-profit,
self-supporting Federation, which neither seeks
nor accepts financial support from any other
body, the essential role played by its
publications sales cannot be over emphasized.
Ordering
All FIDIC documents can be
ordered online at the FIDIC Bookshop. The Bookshop gives details such as:
- Overview of contents.
- Translations: all FIDIC
documents are published in English and
depending upon the need, in other
languages (but English remains the
language of reference in case of legal
dispute - see FIDIC Policy on
Translations). However, other
organizations often undertake to
translate FIDIC documents, especially
conditions of contract. The Bookshop
indicates the translations that are
available, and where they can be obtained
if they are not stocked by the Bookshop
- Prices: all prices are in
Euros, and special offers are
available for orders exceeding the
minimum order provided more than three
items are ordered.
- Bespoke contracts: in a very
limited number of special cases, FIDIC is prepared to
licence organizations to prepare bespoke contracts for
clients. Please contact FIDIC for information.
- Special editions: FIDIC is
able to issue special watermarked electronic editions of
documents for printing by organizers of courses and
similar events, and for organization that wish to supply
FIDIC contracts to potential bidders. For information,
please contact the FIDIC Bookshop.
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