A further busy year of growth for FIDIC Notwithstanding the 2021-22 year under review being affected by the global pandemic, FIDIC has continued to operate effectively on all fronts and represented the industry and its stakeholders over the past 12 months. The organisation has been busier than ever and continues to grow its influence across the global industry.
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September 2021 got off to a strong start with the launch of the FIDIC Global Leadership Forum, a new influential grouping bringing together industry leaders from across the globe to discuss the key issues facing society and the wider infrastructure sector. The forum will play a key role in helping FIDIC and the industry address key global challenges and the launch was supported by more than 50 CEOs from around the world.
The month also saw the announcement by FIDIC of a major new training collaboration agreement with the Maldives National Association of Construction Industry, which will see the two organisations working more closely together and collaborating on training-related and other matters of mutual interest over the next two years. A special FIDIC climate webinar in October discussed FIDIC’s position on the key issue of climate change and highlighted the soon-to-be-launched FIDIC Climate Change Charter.
Also in September, former chairman of Cardno Group and past president (2003-05) of FIDIC, Dick Kell was awarded the prestigious Louis Prangey Award, the highest recognition for outstanding service to FIDIC and the global industry. The month closed with the launch of the latest FIDIC State of the World report, Building sustainable communities in a post-Covid world, which looked at what sustainable communities will look like in a post-Covid environment.
Towards the end of the month, the World Wildlife Fund and FIDIC signed a landmark three-year memorandum of understanding to support the two organisations’ ambitions to promote approaches to sustainable infrastructure planning, design, development and delivery. October closed with the launch of the fifth FIDIC State of the World report, Net zero – what next?, at a webinar which discussed the kind of ambitions the engineering sector and society should be looking to achieve going forward.
October saw construction professionals from around the globe attending a well-attended webinar organised by FIDIC’s contracts committee to discuss the latest addition to FIDIC’s contract suite, the FIDIC Short Form of Contract (Green Book) 2nd Edition. More than 400 people turned up, keen to hear about the new contract, its features and also the changes from the first edition.
The month began with the launch of the FIDIC Climate Change Charter, a transformative plan of action for the global engineering industry to decarbonise as it sets about turning COP26 climate change ambitions into outcomes on the ground. November also saw King’s Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution deliver the first FIDIC Summer School on FIDIC contracts and their practical use. The intensive course was FIDIC’s first training contract collaboration with a European