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Ms. Ramey will be tutoring at the training workshop after the international Dispute Review Board Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa in May 2008.  The workshop will be focused on successful use of dispute boards under FIDIC MDB Harmonized Conditions for Construction. 

The workshop moderator is Mr Gordon Jaynes Esq.  the other tutors include Mr Dick Appuhn, and Mr Murray Armes.

The training workshop will feature a morning’s plenary session focused on Clause 20 and five problematical areas of international civil works contracts. The plenary session will be followed by approximately 15 hours of interactive training in small groups, each led by an experienced DRBF Tutor, working on dispute scenarios involving the five frequently problematical areas:

• Contract risks involving Care of Works, Insurance, Possession of Site
and Taking Over and Defects Liability

• Contract risks involving Design, Ground Conditions and Climatic Conditions

• Programming Delays, Extensions of Time and use of Critical Path Delay Analysis

• Variation Orders, instructions and pricing

• Cost Fluctuations and Price Variation using a Contract formula based on published indices.