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FIDIC Red Book 2017: Engineer’s authority, duties and determinations—sub-clause checklist covering notices, variations, programme, testing, taking-over and payment certification

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This checklist summarises aspects of the Engineer’s powers and obligations under the FIDIC Red Book 2017 General Conditions of Contract. See also Practice Note: FIDIC contracts 2017-the role of the Engineer. For the 1999 Red Book, refer to Checklist: FIDIC Red Book 1999-Engineer’s duties and authority.

Sub-Clause 1.3 The Engineer’s obligation to follow the Notice requirements when giving a formal Notice.
Sub-Clause 1.5 The Engineer’s obligation to provide clarification or instruction on the order of precedence of documents after receiving a Notice of ambiguity or discrepancy, or on finding an ambiguity or discrepancy in the documents.
Sub-Clause 1.8 provisions
- The Engineer’s right, during normal working hours (or as otherwise agreed), to access the Contract, the records under Sub-Clause 6.10 [Contractor’s Records] and Sub-Clause 20.2.3 [Contemporary records], the publications named in the Specification, the Contractor’s Documents, the Drawings and Variations, Notices and other communications issued under the Contract.
- The Engineer’s obligation to give Notice of any error or defect in a document prepared for use in carrying out the Works, once becoming aware of such error or defect under the Contract.
Sub-Clause 1.9 The Engineer’s obligation to issue the necessary drawings or instructions within a reasonable time under the Contract.

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Victoria Tyson

Howard Kennedy (acquired Corbett & Co.)

Victoria Tyson is a director and a specialist international construction lawyer qualified to practise in England and Wales and Hong Kong. She has dealt almost exclusively with international construction law disputes since 1998 and has extensive experience in all forms of construction and engineering dispute avoidance and resolution. She has particular expertise in complex international arbitration and specialist knowledge of the FIDIC forms of contract. Victoria has worked on large construction projects around the world including airports, ports, motorways, railways, bridges, dams, water supplies, hydropower stations, wind farms, mines, oil and gas plants, and pipelines. She has worked with many bespoke and standard forms of construction contract, including FIDIC, NEC, ICE, JCT, and HKIA. Recently, she partnered with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Training and worked closely with the ICE Law and Contracts examination panel to develop a new portfolio of...

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