International Construction Law Review
EIC CONTRACTOR’S GUIDE TO THE FIDIC CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT FOR DESIGN, BUILD AND OPERATE PROJECTS (FIDIC GOLD BOOK)
HÅKAN BROMAN1 AND FRANK KEHLENBACH1
General Counsel, NCC AB
Director, European International Contractors
I. INTRODUCTION
One of the principal objectives of European International Contractors is to contribute constructively to the development of balanced standard forms of contract for use in the international construction industry. EIC shares FIDIC’s view that standardisation, both in technical and administrative matters, is more likely to result in the satisfactory and trouble-free execution of projects.
One of EIC’s contributions to the improvement of standard forms of contract was the publication of guides to FIDIC’s 1999 new standard forms of contract (“.New Books”) which EIC published between 2000 and 2003. These EIC guides are:
- • EIC Contractor’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for EPC Turnkey Projects (Silver Book), issued in March 2000 (see [2000] ICLR 504);
- • EIC Contractor’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction (Red Book), issued in March 2002 (see [2003] ICLR 53);
- • EIC Contractor’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Plant and Design-Build (Yellow Book), issued in March 2003 (see [2003] ICLR 332).
EIC welcomes, in principle, that FIDIC has enlarged its suite of standard forms of contract with an innovative contract form which is destined to
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