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Exciting Career Opportunities Await in the UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become a global hub for talent and innovation. With its rapidly growing economy, the demand for...
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Jun 284 min read
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The Importance of Hardcopies in Contract Documentation
Embracing Modern Technology and Traditional Methods With the technology available today, many people feel less inclined to keep hard...
pvaughan30
May 63 min read
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Local Laws
This is not to be taken as providing any legal advice on any such matter and in such instances where one believes that there may be a...
pvaughan30
May 62 min read
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Custom & Practice
There is a danger to some degree in readily following something to the extent that it becomes an unwritten practice. This could easily...
pvaughan30
May 62 min read
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It Isn't what you Know that Counts, It's what you can Prove
As simple as this may sound, there is a fair degree of effort that needs to go into the actions necessary to attain this. Record keeping...
pvaughan30
Mar 201 min read
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Employer's Requirements, Design Development & Scope Creep
On design and build/construct Projects there is usually a detailed Employer's Requirements within the Contract Documents showing not only...
pvaughan30
Jan 302 min read
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Baseline Slippage
With an approved Baseline Schedule, progress is monitored against the same. If the pitfalls of Target Schedules can be avoided, the...
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Jan 302 min read
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Target Schedules? No. No. No. Adjust the Baseline
A contractual part of most if not all Projects is the submission of a Contract Programme - it is sometimes better to refer to it as the...
pvaughan30
Jan 303 min read
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Payment Applications
The bane of any Contractor or Subcontractor is getting paid. One has to have undertaken work to begin with - in accordance with the...
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Jan 302 min read
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FIDIC-related Contracts
Of course it is only opinion but people often confuse the fact that once someone amends the template contract being used, it can, in many...
pvaughan30
Jan 282 min read
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Document Control
Whilst this is not necessarily associated with being a commercial-related matter, the simple adage of "what you know" counts. It is...
pvaughan30
Jan 182 min read
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Formatting & Terminology
This isn't necessarily Project-specific but should be something that runs through the organization on each and every Project you become...
pvaughan30
Jan 172 min read
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Going Backwards to Move Forwards
In order to progress Projects, processes as defined in the Contract Documents (in addition to those of good practice) lend themselves to...
pvaughan30
Jan 173 min read
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Hooks & Chains
Whenever possible, read, read and re-read the Contract Documents over, and over again. Is it tedious? Will it make you want to pull out...
pvaughan30
Jan 162 min read
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Projects and Honeymoons
You've entered into Contract with the other Party and have barely time to finish your cigars between champagne toasts and endless...
pvaughan30
Jan 163 min read
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Meetings
On most Projects it is specified the level of detail that must be recorded and submitted for record purpose and could entail Daily...
pvaughan30
Jan 123 min read
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Records of Work Done (RoWDs)
It may seem self-evident that this will have been recorded as the Works progress however, small, seemingly insignificant issues that...
pvaughan30
Jan 122 min read
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Day-to-day Observations & RFIs
Only when the Works start in earnest do issues arise that many did not foresee. It isn't necessarily something that may be claimable per...
pvaughan30
Jan 122 min read
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Reading & Re-reading Contract Documents
Presupposing you have a full set of Contract Docs the next step is to read through them. My preference is to make a hardcopy (drawings in...
pvaughan30
Jan 112 min read
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Much Ado About Nothing?
When record-keeping on site especially, it is useful to get into the habit of compiling certain recorded tasks at regular intervals, at...
pvaughan30
Jan 92 min read
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