Construction Law Quarterly

This edition of Construction Law Quarterly provides an international flavour, with a particular focus on the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (Fidic) contract. Whilst this contract form is popular around the world, it is also being used more regularly in the UK. One notable project which has successfully used the Fidic ‘Silver Book’ (Fidic, 1999a) is the new Queensferry Crossing (otherwise known as the Forth Replacement Crossing) spanning the Forth estuary in Scotland, UK (Shackman and Climie, 2016). This £1·3 billion cable-stayed bridge is described as the largest infrastructure project in Scotland for a generation. The...