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		<title>Post Contract Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The change from pre-construction to the construction stage reflects all the preparation required to define your project that allows the construction work to start on site. Pre-start Meeting This meeting takes place to establish roles and responsibilities, lines of communication, proper working arrangements and health &#38; safety issues. The arrangements for quality control are clarified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Configuration Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two major definitions for configuration management. It can be a term given to the identification, tracking and managing of all the assets of a project. This definition would be especially relevant on software development projects where the “configuration” refers to the collection of artifacts, code components, executables, etc. The items that you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proactively Manage Small Change Requests Using Alternative Processes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone can recognize and appreciate that a scope change request process must be invoked for large changes to the project. However, you may encounter resistance to formal scope change management for small requests. The client and other project team members may consider this to be unnecessary overhead for such small decisions. They might be right. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perform Integrated Change Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Large projects should apply more diligence throughout the change management process. Change does not always happen neatly. In many cases, it may be hard to understand the nature of a change and the impact to the various aspects of the project. For example a small request can come into the project that results in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIDIC 1999 or something else in disguise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michelle Nelson Contractors already working in or thinking of working in the UAE capital may be aware that the Abu Dhabi government has recently issued new contracts for construction projects being undertaken in the emirate on behalf of public entities. The word on the street is that these contracts are to be welcomed since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common contractual concerns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Nelson, partner, Pinsent Masons, says it is worth examining five common traps before plunging into construction in Dubai. Let&#8217;s examine some of the potentially troublesome issues which contractors face regularly in the Dubai construction market. In preparing this article I have highlighted five issues which we are asked to advise contractors on regularly. Price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAE: time for GMP Contacting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clients who ask us to help them draft forms of guaranteed maximum price (GMP) contracts, have a variety of reasons for their decision to contract on this basis. Fixed price lump sum contracting, they point out, assumes that the design will be more or less complete at the time the contract is signed. The Contractor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-thinking Contract Price in the UAE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Hisham Skaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UAE construction industry is experiencing a growing yet significant debate, driven by the desire of Employers to successfully procure and deliver projects through alternative contractual pricing mechanisms. The debate centers on whether to continue using the preferred &#8220;fixed price&#8221; lump sum or alternatively whether to use the cost reimbursement (plus profit) model. The cost-reimbursable [...]]]></description>
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