Contracts’ newsletter editorial board formed

A new FIDIC Contract Users’ Newsletter editorial board has been formed to support this publication and provide strategic guidance on its future development, reports newsletter editor, ANDY WALKER.

The FIDIC Contract Users’ Newsletter editorial board will support the publication and provide strategic guidance on the development of content, structure and the publication’s programme. The editorial board will also assist the editorial team with the development of news and feature story coverage, provide industry feedback on contract usage and assist FIDIC in exploiting market opportunities to expand the global usage of its contract documents.

Members of the editorial board will serve for a two-year period and FIDIC will consider additional stakeholders to join the board after two years of operations.

The editorial board, which will meet quarterly via FIDIC’s remote meeting facility, had its first meeting on Monday 11 May 2020. Members (see box on this page) discussed the production schedule for future editions of the newsletter and there was a strong feeling that there should be a reasonable break between newsletters to allow for a broader range of issues to be covered, rather than tailoring each issue to a specific contract users’ conference as has previously been the case.

Members also discussed the circulation of the newsletter and sector reach highlighting the need to increase circulation in order to raise profile as a key priority. It was felt by all those attending that a wider readership would help to increase contributors to the newsletter and better connect FIDIC to different industry sectors.

FIDIC is keen to see regular content and contributors to the Contract Users’ Newsletter from its six operating regions, namely Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific, South America and North America. Individual FIDIC contract users are also invited to make regular contributions to the newsletter. Users include the following groups:

FIDIC is keen to see regular content and contributors to the Contract Users’ Newsletter from its six operating regions, namely Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific, South America and North America. Individual FIDIC contract users are also invited to make regular contributions to the newsletter. Users include the following groups:

• Consulting engineers

• Contractors

• Procurement professionals

• Multilateral funding agencies

• Multinational organisations

• Global, regional and national clients, private and public

• Academic professors or lecturers on contracts and procurement issues

• Legal experts Editorial board members agreed that going forward

agreed that going forward the publication would be published quarterly to coincide with the start of each quarter. Therefore, future issues for 2020 will be published around the start of Q3 and Q4 with subsequent issued planned for the beginning of each quarter after that.

Members also discussed current and emerging contract issues and advised on areas for inclusion in future issues of the newsletter, which will be published in digital format and circulated by email distribution and via the FIDIC website.