Course structure
Day 1 –Topics 1 & 2
12:30pm to 5:30pm with 60 mins of break(s)
Topic 1: Delivering projects (12.30 to 2.30pm)
- What is a project?
- Stakeholders
- Project cycles
- Risk
- Procurement and bidding for projects.
Presenters: (1) Andrew Chew, Consultant, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Professorial Fellow, UTS Faculty of Law, and (2) Associate Professor Peter Smith, Associate Head of School and Program Director - Construction Project Management, School of the Built Environment, UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building (DAB).
Topic 2: Managing project risks (3.30 to 5.30pm)
- Delivery structures
- Contract forms
- Pricing structures.
Presenters: (1) Owen Hayford, Principal, infralegal, and (2) Andrew Chew, Consultant, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Professorial Fellow, UTS Law.
Day 2 – Topics 3 & 4
12:30pm to 5:30pm with 60 mins of break(s)
Topic 3: Pre-contract planning (12.30 to 2.30pm)
- Project objectives: time, cost, quality, performance
- Level of influence over the project life cycle
- The impact of contract type on time (and cost)
- Developing the contract program
- Documenting the contract program basis (and program obligations)
- Common causes of delays and basic concepts of delay claims.
Presenters: (1) Alberto Sanchez, Head of Planning, Lendlease and NSW Committee Chair of AACE Australia Section, and (2) Andrew Chew, Consultant, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Professorial Fellow, UTS Law.
Topic 4: Managing liability (3.30 to 5.30pm)
- Liabilities (including limitation and exclusions)
- Indemnities and releases
- Indirect and consequential loss
- Insurances
- Managing counterparty risk.
Presenters: (1) Dr Robin Bowley, Lecturer, UTS Law, and (2) Andrew Chew, Consultant, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Professorial Fellow, UTS Law.
Course learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this short course participants should be able to:
- Identify legal and commercial risk in major infrastructure projects
- Anticipate and manage time, cost, quality and performance issues through effective planning and contract drafting
- Understand major infrastructure projects from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including the practical and legal implications of the relationships between the parties
- Contribute to and, where appropriate, lead team exercises such as group presentations
- Demonstrate high standards of professional communication in written and oral work.
