Course C3 · 3 days
Procedure and Practice of Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Boards
How to conduct a DAAB — for parties, their representatives, Engineers and board members, with work exercises and mock hearings.
- 9Taught sessions
- 3 daysDuration
- DAAB constitution and procedureCoverage
Overview
Contracts covered
- Red Book
- Yellow Book
- Silver Book
- MDB / World Bank
Who it is for
Board members, party representatives, Engineers
Understanding how to conduct DAABs: enabling parties, their representatives, Engineers and dispute board members to understand and manage the DAAB process from appointment through to an enforceable decision.
Includes work exercises, case studies and mock adjudication hearings.
Syllabus
What the day blocks cover.
Clause references are to the conditions of contract the course works through.
Day 1Constitution and principles
Alternative dispute resolution
- —Mediation, conciliation, dispute review boards and dispute adjudication boards
- —Arbitration
- —Current status of dispute boards
- —Types of Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Board
- —The function and purpose of the DAAB
- —Elements of a successful DAAB
- —How best to use the DAAB
- —Dispute avoidance
Dispute Avoidance and Adjudication Board principles
- —Background to dispute resolution under the FIDIC contracts
- —Composition of the DAAB
- —The DAAB Agreement
- —The standing DAAB
- —DAAB cost
Responsibilities as a member
- —Site visits
- —The dispute avoidance role
- —Advisory opinions
- —Structured interventions
Day 2Referral and decision
The DAAB in operation — referral of disputes
- —Procedural rules
- —Timetable
- —Pre-hearing requirements
- —The referral and the response
- —The site visit
The decision
- —Enforceability of a decision
Day 3Practice and mock hearing
Statutory adjudication, the DRBF and the success of the DAAB
Arbitration
DAAB case studies and mock DAAB hearing
Questions and discussion
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Every course can be delivered in-house, at your offices or ours, and tailored to the contracts your projects actually use. Tell us the project and the audience.