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FIDIC Adjudicators Assessment Workshops
PSM   FIDIC Adjudicators Assessment Workshop
 
Foxhills Club and Resort, Ottershaw, UK; 19-21 April 2009 (moved from Dubai).
Adjudicators Assessment Workshop for those applying for admission to the FIDIC President's List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators, see www.fidic.org.org/dab.
   
:: Registration Closed
 
Applicants have been preassessed and informed. No more applicants can be accepted.

Applicants who have been informed by FIDIC that they have sucessfully completed preassessment are asked to book accommodation at the Foxhills Club and Resort, Stonehill Rd., Ottershaw, KT16 0EL, Surrey, UK (tel.: +44 1932 704 446; fax: +44 1932 875 200; reservations@foxhills.co.uk)

Applicants to the FIDIC President's List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators need to successfully complete an Adjudicators Assessment Workshop.
 
Applications to participate in a workshop are assessed and applicants are notified if they meet the criteria for participation in the workshop.
 
To apply for participation in an Adjudicators Assessment Workshop, applicants will be applying for admission to the FIDIC President's List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators. Information on how to apply for a admission to the list, which includes preassessment for participation in the Adjudicators Assessment Workshop, is available online at www.fidic.org/dab.
 
Applications for admission to the FIDIC President's List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators with as the first step pre-selection by the Adjudicators' Assessment Panel for the Adjudicators Assessment Workshop were sent to the FIDIC Secretariat not later than 30 November 2008 (date extended from 15 November 2008).
 
The next Adjudicators Assessment Workshop takes place on 19-21 April 2009 in the UK, close to London.
 
Successful applicants who have successfully completed preassessment will asked to book their accommodation with the reservations department of the venue hotel, the Foxhills Club and Resort. Accommodation will only be secured until the end of March 2009 so early booking is advised. A special rate will be negotiated, including breakfast and dinner, from Sunday 19th to Tuesday 21st April. Lunches on the 19th, 20th and 21st are included in the assessment fee.
 
Successful applicants are further advised that evening homework will be required and are thus encouraged to stay at the Foxhills Club and Resort where the assessment workshop to takes place.
 

 Workshop Assessors
- Peter Chapman, Chair, FIDIC Assessment Panel for Adjudicators
- Igor Leto
- Gordon Jaynes
- Cyril Chern (incoming member)
- Toshihiko Omoto (incoming member)
 
 Programme
- Arrival recommended on Saturday, 18 April
- Registration/Presentations at 09.00 on Sunday, 19 April
- Assessment Workshop, Monday and Tuesday 20/21 April
   (workshop ends on Tuesday afternoon)
 
 Documents
The Adjudicators Assessment Workshop permits the candidates to refer to the FIDIC Construction Contract and candidates should bring their own copy. Participants might also find help in the FIDIC Contracts Guide and it would certainly be worth having to hand the FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Contract and the FIDIC EPC/Turnkey Contract as well.

Copies of the FIDIC contracts and guides will NOT be available at the workshop. Documents can be ordered from the FIDIC Bookshop (www.fidic.org/bookshop or email: fidic.pub@fidic.org; Tel: +41 22 799 49 05; fax: +41 22 799 49 01).
 
 General information
The FIDIC Assessment Panel for Adjudicators (APA) wishes to make it very clear that the Adjudicators Assessment Workshop in April 2009 is not a training event in the traditional sense. If you wish to learn about FIDIC contracts, learn how to adjudicate, or learn how to serve on DABs (or become a DAB member) the workshop will be a disappointment. The workshop aims at assessing candidates’ knowledge and ability (of FIDIC contracts in general and the operation of the dispute resolution clauses and of a DAB) and consists of a series of written examinations and case studies, ending with a personal interview. It is important that all candidates understand what will happen at the workshop and not be under any misconception as to its content and aim. Almost all the time you will spend at the workshop will involve some sort of testing of the participants abilities.
 
The assessment permits the candidates to refer to the FIDIC Construction Contract and candidates should bring their own copy. Participants might also find help in the FIDIC Contracts Guide and it would certainly be worth having to hand the FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Contract and the FIDIC EPC/Turnkey Contract as well.
 
Please bring your own writing pads, writing implements, etc. You may also prefer to bring a laptop computer with you if you prefer to type out your answers - the assessors would certainly prefer type-written answers if your handwriting is unclear. Also, please bring a name badge for your personal use during the assessment. Prizes for the most original!
 
You will be kept very busy at the assessment workshop and there will be no time for you to indulge in social events. This is not meant to sound heartless, but the assessors would not want candidates making arrangements to socialise during the evenings of the assessment workshop only to find that the overnight work does not permit social time-out. Most of you will have served on dispute boards and will thus know the pressure and anti-social hours that are, at times, necessary.
 
All assignments given to you are for your personal execution and group work/discussions will not be permitted. Participants who are staying at the workshop venue (Foxhills Club and Resort) should find adequate working facilities in the hotel bedrooms. Those staying elsewhere will need to ensure they will have adequate facilities to execute the overnight work.
 
You will be assigned an interview time at the commencement of the assessment workshop.  Should the times selected give you any difficulties, it is open for a candidate to swap with another candidate.  The assessors will expect each candidate at the specified time unless such an exchange has been arranged.  The assessors will not arrange any changes to the specified times, it being a matter for the candidates.
 
The assessors (APA faculty), all of whom are giving their time voluntarily, will have a lot to consider after the workshop and it will be some time before all the assessments are completed and candidates are notified of the results of their assessment.
 
Finally, we intend to commence the Adjudicators Assessment Workshop with registration at 09.00 on the Sunday (19th April). The room allocated to the assessment will be on a notice board in the Foxhills Club and Resort reception area. 
 
FIDIC is extremely pleased to note the high calibre of expertise available in the marketplace, but wishes to remind candidates that not all of you will necessarily pass the rigorous examination.
 
Organizers
The workshop is organized by FIDIC, the Fédération Internationale des Ingénieurs -Conseils, with members of the FIDIC Assessment Panel for Adjudicators serving as assessors.
 
Attendance and registration
Fee: Euro 1100 (includes assessment workshop and two lunches)
Cancellations: in the case of cancellations, a Euro 150 administration fee will be retained and the remainder refunded, less any bank charges.
Registration: please register online (see "Online registration" link above)
 
 Information
For further information, please contact FIDIC Events.
- www.fidic.org/events
- fidic@fidic.org
International Federation of Consulting Engineers
FIDIC - Box 311 - CH-1215 Geneva 15 - Switzerland
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