Contracting Skills and Strategies

Contracting Skills and Strategies is a blended course that addresses the most important principles involved in managing engineering construction industry contracts from the Contractor's perspective. 

The course builds a deeper understanding of pre-award contracting decisions and their impact on the project risk profile, with additional focus on securing entitlement (time, money) during project execution.

The self-managed "Contracting Essentials" eLearning course to be taken upfront covers legal principles and contractual mechanisms relevant to most engineering and construction contracts.

This is followed by two interactive workshops which actively engage with contractual provisions and industry case studies, contrasting commercial and compensation models, adverse and value-adding contract terms, and those which govern risk, scope, obligations, entitlements, change and payment. The focus in the post-contract project execution period is on time-related provisions and securing entitlement to time and price adjustment.

Learning aims

• Understanding the principles of industry contracts and contracting
• Differentiating common commercial and compensation models
• Recognising contractual mechanisms governing time, scope, change and price
• Defining the most important contract provisions in a range of industry contracts 
• Assessing the pros and cons of different commercial models
• Recognising commercial risk inherent in different commercial models 
• Identifying, analysing and responding to adverse contract terms 
• Understanding the implications of key contractual decisions on contract/project execution
• Maintaining the risk balance agreed under the contract
• Meeting contractual obligations and securing key entitlements and recovery (price, time, scope)

Delivery Availability and Duration

Virtual / In-house / Elearning
Blended learning
2 x 4 hrs Virtual
2 - 3 hrs Elearning
1.5 hrs Self-directed

Who is this for?

The course is particularly suited to technical roles who have not had formal contracts training and are either involved in the process of contract preparation, or post contract in the management of engineering construction related contracts.

On completion

A Kingsfield Academy certificate will be issued on successful completion of this course.

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