Project Controls · Practitioner-Led · FIDIC 2017 second edition aligned

FIDIC Contract Management, for the people who actually run the schedule.

Not a legal seminar. A practical course that connects the FIDIC Red, Yellow, Silver and Green Books directly to your Primavera P6 baseline, EOT claims, Time Impact Analysis and delay narratives — the way a real project controls team uses them on site.

Practitioner-led
Everything you need to defend a delay, evaluate a variation, and stand behind your programme.
All four FIDIC Books
Red · Yellow · Silver · Green
EOT & Delay Analysis
TIA, Windows, Concurrent Delay, Disruption
Primavera P6 workflow
Baselines · Updates · Evidence for claims
Online-live · On-site · Corporate cohorts
Why this course is different

It's a project controls course, not a legal seminar.

Most FIDIC training treats the contract like a law-school subject — reading clauses aloud, quoting sub-clauses in isolation, showing you no schedules and no field data. That leaves planners, quantity surveyors and project controls engineers unable to actually use the contract when a delay hits. This programme is the opposite. Every clause we teach lands in a Primavera P6 workflow: what to record, when to notify, how the baseline supports the claim, and what the Engineer will actually accept as evidence. FIDIC + Primavera P6 + Delay Analysis + Claims — taught together, because on site they are the same job.

Who this course is for

Built for the people who run the delivery.

If your day involves Primavera schedules, variation orders, monthly progress claims or delay narratives — this is your course. Legal counsel is welcome, but the room is engineers.

Planning Engineers
Project Control Engineers
Quantity Surveyors
Contracts Engineers
Project Managers
Civil Engineers
Construction Professionals
By the end of the course

What you'll be able to do on Monday.

Every outcome is task-based and tied to something a project controls professional actually has to produce on a live contract.

01

Identify the right FIDIC Book

Instantly tell whether Red, Yellow, Silver or Green applies to a given project — and why it matters for how risk, cost and time behave.

02

Serve compliant contractual notices

Draft time-bar-safe notices under Sub-Clause 20.1 (2017: 20.2) — and know which internal records must exist before you send them.

03

Build EOT-ready baseline schedules in P6

Structure activity IDs, calendars, WBS and constraints so your Primavera P6 baseline can actually defend an Extension of Time later.

04

Run a defensible Time Impact Analysis

Model delay events as fragnets inside P6, insert them at the right update, and produce TIA outputs the Engineer can validate.

05

Evaluate variation orders

Price and schedule Variation Orders under FIDIC rules for measurement, dayworks, unit rates and time consequences.

06

Address concurrent delay and disruption

Separate excusable, compensable and non-excusable delays; document disruption impact without conflating it with pure delay.

07

Package a claim submission

Assemble the narrative, cause-effect chain, P6 evidence pack and quantum — in the sequence Engineers and DABs expect.

08

Support your PM in negotiations

Translate contract clauses into the numbers, dates and dependencies leadership needs when the discussion turns commercial.

The curriculum · 8 modules

Every module ends in a schedule artefact, not a slide.

Tap any module to see the topics covered. Delivery mixes short lectures with hands-on Primavera exercises and real project templates.

  • What FIDIC is, and why it dominates international construction
  • The purpose of FIDIC contracts — risk allocation, not just paperwork
  • FIDIC contract structure: General Conditions, Particular Conditions, Appendices
  • Roles of the Employer, the Contractor and the Engineer
  • Overview of the Red, Yellow, Silver and Green Books at a glance
  • When to use the Red Book — Employer-designed projects
  • Roles and responsibilities across Employer, Engineer and Contractor
  • Payment mechanisms: interim payment certificates, retention, final account
  • Variations — instruction, valuation and time impact
  • Delays and Extension of Time under Sub-Clause 8
  • Claims workflow and the time-bar for notices
  • The Design-Build model and where the Yellow Book fits
  • The Contractor's design responsibilities and design liability
  • Risk allocation in a Yellow Book contract vs the Red Book
  • Variations initiated by the Employer or the Contractor
  • Claims and delays specific to design-and-build delivery
  • Turnkey contracting philosophy — single point of responsibility
  • Contractor responsibilities on EPC delivery
  • Risk allocation: why the Silver Book is the most Contractor-heavy Book
  • Time and cost risks specifically transferred to the Contractor
  • Employer requirements — how to read them defensively
  • What the Short Form is designed for — and what it isn't
  • Suitable project types and value thresholds
  • Key features: simplified structure, faster administration, lighter dispute mechanism
  • Direct comparison against Red / Yellow / Silver Books
  • When to push back against a client using the Green Book on the wrong project
  • Contractual notices — content, timing, and the time-bar consequences
  • Delay events and how to categorise them (excusable / compensable / neither)
  • Extension of Time claims: cause, effect, entitlement, quantum
  • Concurrent delay — competing schools of thought and how to argue yours
  • Disruption vs delay — keeping them separate in your narrative
  • Time Impact Analysis (TIA) as a forward-looking method
  • Foundational delay analysis concepts — Windows, As-Planned vs As-Built, Collapsed As-Built
  • What qualifies as a variation under FIDIC (and what doesn't)
  • Variation orders — issuance, acknowledgment, execution
  • Evaluation of variations: measured work, dayworks, quotation basis
  • Cost and schedule impact assessment for each VO
  • End-to-end change management: control, log, close-out, audit trail
  • Connecting FIDIC clauses directly with Primavera P6 workflows
  • Building baseline schedules that survive scrutiny during a dispute
  • Progress updates — data dates, actualised logic, retained logic
  • Modelling delay events as fragnets and inserting them cleanly
  • Running Time Impact Analysis in P6 step by step
  • Extension of Time analysis backed by real schedule data
  • Schedule evidence for claims — screenshots, exports, layouts
  • Supporting contractual claims with project schedules end-to-end

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Deep-dive on any topic

Each area has its own dedicated page.

Book 1
FIDIC Red Book →
Book 2
FIDIC Yellow Book →
Book 3
FIDIC Silver Book →
Book 4
FIDIC Green Book →
Deep-dive
FIDIC Claims →
Deep-dive
Extension of Time →
Deep-dive
Delay Analysis →
Differentiator
Planning Engineers →
Compare
Red vs Yellow vs Silver vs Green →
Duration & delivery

Choose a format that fits your project.

Live sessions with recordings, a private cohort channel, and downloadable P6 exercise files. Corporate on-site delivery available across India, GCC and Southeast Asia.

Programme length
40–50 hours
Across the 8 modules
Weekend cohort
5–6 weeks
Sat & Sun, 3 hrs each
Fast-track (weekday)
2 weeks
Evenings 7–10 PM
Corporate on-site
4–5 days
Intensive at your office
Certificate of Completion
Issued by GS Technologies
Certification

A certificate that says something in a job interview.

On successful completion — attendance, class exercises and the final case-study submission — you receive the GS Technologies FIDIC Contract Management certificate. Verifiable, dated, and issued in your legal name.

  • Certificate of Completion in PDF and print-ready format
  • LinkedIn-ready credential you can add to your profile
  • Verification available on request from GS Technologies
  • Reusable P6 exercise files & claim template pack retained by you
Who's teaching

Taught by someone who has actually defended claims.

Not a rotating panel of freelancers. A single practitioner leading every session.

GS
Gyanendra Singh
Lead Trainer · Programme Director
Experience25+ years in EPC
CredentialPgMP® · PMP®
DomainOil & Gas · Power · Infrastructure
Contracts runRed, Yellow & Silver Books
ToolingPrimavera P6 · MS Project
Teaching since1999

Practitioner first, trainer second.

Gyanendra Singh has spent the last two and a half decades leading planning and project controls on EPC projects across Oil & Gas, Power and Infrastructure — the exact environment where FIDIC contracts live. He has served EOT notices, built the Primavera evidence packs that supported them, and stood behind those numbers in Engineer determinations and negotiations.

He is one of a very small number of PgMP-certified professionals in India, and holds PMP® alongside two and a half decades of hands-on delivery. Every cohort of this course is led by him personally — not outsourced to a rotating faculty.

Alumni join a private WhatsApp cohort channel that stays live after the course ends. When a real claim lands on your desk months later, you have somewhere to ask.

Common questions

Answers before you ask.

If your question isn't here, WhatsApp us and we'll answer it directly.

No. The course is built for engineers and quantity surveyors. We teach the parts of FIDIC that project controls, planning and QS teams have to use every week. No prior contract-law training is expected.
Comfortable navigation of Primavera P6 helps — you should be able to open a project, run an update, and read a Gantt chart. If you're brand new to P6, take our dedicated Primavera P6 course first, then join this cohort with the fundamentals in place.
Primary reference is the FIDIC 2017 second edition of the Rainbow Suite (Red, Yellow, Silver Books) — but we cross-reference the 1999 first edition throughout, because a large share of ongoing projects were signed under 1999 wording. You leave able to work with both.
No. FIDIC issues its own accredited trainer programme; this course is not that programme. The certificate you receive is issued by GS Technologies, based on your attendance and case-study submission. What it gives you is practical fluency — the ability to actually operate a FIDIC contract on site, tied to Primavera P6 and delay-analysis discipline.
Yes — that's a significant part of our work. We deliver on-site private cohorts across India, the GCC and Southeast Asia, and can adapt the case studies to your live projects (under NDA). Minimum cohort is typically 8 participants. WhatsApp us to scope it.
Every live session is recorded and shared within 24 hours. Enrolled participants keep access for the length of the cohort plus 60 days. Attendance is still expected wherever possible — the course is designed to be interactive.
All live sessions, session recordings, downloadable Primavera P6 exercise files, a claims & EOT template pack, entry into the private alumni cohort channel, and the Certificate of Completion. WhatsApp us for current pricing in INR / USD / AED / SAR.
Book a free consultation

FIDIC + Primavera P6 + Claims. Taught the way you use them.

Fifteen-minute call. Tell us your project, your role and your target date — we'll pick the batch and format that fit.