Infrastructure and Construction Conference: Contracts and Claims 2017

Topics

• Managing Early Engagement in Projects
  • Early Contractor Involvement: Why adopt ECI? What are the disadvantages?
  • Consultant engagement: issues resulting from early client engagement
  • Pulling together the contract: Advising on risk allocation and the technical documentation
  • Working with project managers: challenges and how are they best addressed
• Procurement and a New Dawn for Bid Challenges
  • Causes of action, discovery and damages
  • The legal implications of a badly run tender process
  • The Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Bill 2017: a new legal landscape for tender challenges, available remedies, and how procuring agencies should prepare
• Infrastructure and Major Project Financing
  • The changing government framework
  • The market`s evolution in terms of hybrid models
  • Key risk allocation and contractual implications
• Innovation and Disruption in Infrastructure
  • 3D printing: the practical, financial and legal implications
  • Up to date insights on how technology is shaping the industry
  • Building information modelling: liability issues and risk allocation
  • Prefabrication: benefits, risks and what must be considered
• Claims, Limitation Periods and Warranties
  • Long life statutory warranties (eg 30 year design life)
  • Limitation periods for commencing a claim
  • Various statutory limitation periods: Limitation Act NSW and Environmental Planning and Assessment Act NSW
  • How these warranties work
• LEGAL AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES: Delay and Disruption Claims in Major Project
  • Programming concepts: critical path, float, contingency
  • The programme
  • Delay analysis: records and methods (as-built vs as-planned, impacted as-planned, windows analysis)
  • Considering delay claims: global claims, notice requirements, basis for EOT
• Dispute Resolution in Infrastructure and Major Construction Projects
  • Expert determination: selecting institutional rules, regulatory framework and enforceability
  • Tiered dispute resolution clauses and their enforceability
  • Arbitration trends and updates
  • DAB/ DRBs: Dispute Boards and issues surrounding drafting and the processes in practice