SeminarCONSTRUCTION Topics

Construction Claim Preventionand Resolution : Key Success Factors

for Construction Projects

o Overview of Construction Claim Managemento Understanding the FIDIC Contracts Regarding Risk Allocationo Alternative Dispute Resolution Forumso Use of CPM Schedule to Prevent and Measure Project Delayso Methodologies to Measure Delayso Productivity Analysiso Concurrent Delays: Conceptual Clarificationo Effective Job Cost Reports: Monitoring and Calculating Damageso Types of Change or Extra Work and Management of Changeo Construction Claims Management Panel Discussion

METHODOLOGY Mini Lecture, SimulationInstruction - English Translator - Available upon request

24-25 September 2009AIT Conference Center, AIT Campus, Pathumthani

LEARNING OBJECTIVE : This two-day seminar aims to increase your awareness and abilities to prevent construction disputes from happening and then resolve them professionally and timely when they arise. Attendees will gain a better understanding of construction dispute management and problems occurring when not being implemented properly, needs for managing disputes and how to work on international projects successfully through a proper construction dispute management process. The highly-experienced key speakers in construction claims management on mega projects will openly discuss about the key elements of claim prevention and resolution that have been widely used and accepted in the international standard.

Construction Claim Prevention and Resolution Key Success Factors

for Construction Projects24-25 September 2009

WARNER|PPP

InstructorsTom Matin, Vice President, Warner Construction Consultants, Inc.Tom Matin is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, State of Maryland and Washington, DC with over 30 years of construction industry experience specializing in schedule development and analysis, cost estimating and budget control, design engineering, claims analysis and mitigation. Mr. Martin's experience includes design-bid-build and design-build contracting methods on a wide variety of project types including roads, highways, bridges and tunnels, water and wastewater treatment plants, power plants, airports, federal buildings, hotels, hospitals and high rise office buildings. Mr. Martin has spent approximately half of his career working for general contractors and construction consulting firms providing CPM scheduling, construction cost estimating and change order analysis with the balance specializing in disputes resolution providing the additional services of project delay analysis and expert testimony. Mr. Martin served as Field Engineer, Cost Estimator and Manager of MIS Systems on a $600 million Design-Build fighter air base project encompassing over 250 facilities, landing fields and the complete infrastructure of roads, storm drainage, bridges, water, sewer and electric facilities.

John Kimon Yiasemides, Senior Consultant, Warner Construction Consultants, Inc.John Kimon Yiasemides is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. He is also a 1996 graduate of the University of Florida School of Building Construction. Mr. Yiasemides' work experience includes working in Florida with Centex for six years where he managed a variety of commercial and educational construction projects. Through this experience Mr. Yiasemides gained an intimate knowledge of construction management and its practices, often being responsible for the management of 20 to 30 subcontractors on a given project. He then returned to Washington DC to work for Hill International for three years. There he continued to apply his construction knowledge towards analysis and management of construction claims. Mr. Yiasemides left Hill to pursue his law degree full time in 2002, but remained working in the summers for Hill and then for the construction litigation division of the law firm Ober Kaler in Baltimore. In addition to Mr. Yiasemides' formal education, he has taken course work and is trained in mediation, P3, and OSHA safety. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Apirath Prateapusanond, Ph.D., Managing Director, PPP Consultants Dr. Apirath Prateapusanond is an international construction management consultant with 10-year experience in dispute resolution and project management on mega construction and property projects such as the Big Dig project in Boston, GSA Office Building and U.S. Courthouse in New York, Enron Power Plant in Puerto Rico and Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. She is a project consultant and facilitator providing practical suggestions to improve overall business processes and "people" change management for CUEL Limited, a fastgrowing Oil & Gas Platform EPCI firm and Chevron Asia South Limited. She has outstanding technical, contract and management experience in construction projects; analysis of project delay and cost-overrun, evaluation of labor productivity and inefficiency, evaluation of project damages, analysis of CPM scheduling and performance and business performance optimization. She has also experienced in construction claim preparation for arbitration and litigation procedures in the U.S. and Thailand.

This advance seminar is a "Must" for Owners, Contractors and any party involved in both public and private mega construction projects.

Project sponsors, project managers, construction managers, contract/commercial managers working in an international construction environment or a part of a mega project.

Commercial who are a part of construction projects and desiring to be cautious on the construction issues and have an open-minded to improve the existing construction management practices.

Owners and developers of construction projects who need to understand how claims arise and what to do once a claim occurs on their project.

Anyone currently engaged in construction disputes in Thailand.

Construction lawyers, consultants, mediators, arbitrators involving in dispute management.

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