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Alleviating Legal Pitfalls & Liabilities In The Engineering and Building Construction Industries (Re-run No. 25)

Qualified by Professional Engineers Board for 16 PDUs

Date Scheduled	11 & 12 Nov 2024 (Monday, Tuesday )
Time	8.30 am to 6.00 pm
Venue	Hotel Grand Pacific (101 Victoria Street, Singapore 188018)
Registration Fee	$790 per pax (inclusive of lunch & 1 tea-break, course materials & certificate of attendance; GST not applicable)
Early Bird Registration (Pay on or before 4 November 2024)	$700 per pax (inclusive of lunch & 1 tea-break, course materials & certificate of attendance; GST not applicable)

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Objectives

1. To provide participants with a general knowledge of laws relating to the building engineering & construction industries.

2. To enable participants to understand, acquire and appreciate their duties, responsibilities and liabilities as professional engineers, business owners, employers, directors, partners, managers, consultants, engineers, professionals and executives and apply their knowledge of relevant aspects of laws in discharging their duties & responsibilities as well as managing and alleviating possible liabilities and legal pitfalls.

For Whom

Professional Engineers, Engineers, Employers, Contractors, Business Owners, Directors, General Managers, Senior Managers, Project Managers, Consultants, Engineers, Architects, Technical Professionals, Corporate Officers and Management & Executive Staff of Government Departments, Corporations and Businesses.

* For all disciplines of Engineering

Course outline:

A brief introduction to Singapore laws

A working knowledge of engineering construction contract laws

The Law of  Negligence & Negligent Misstatement in the Engineering Building Construction industries

A working knowledge of insurance laws

Business framework & business vehicle

- corporation or partnership or sole proprietorship

Powers, duties, responsibilities & liabilities of company directors

Powers of shareholders as owners of corporation

Powers, duties, responsibilities & liabilities of  partners & sole proprietors

Duties & Liabilities of Engineers & Other Technical Professionals in the Engineering Building Construction Industries

An Overview of possible legal pitfalls & liabilities in the engineering building construction industries

Alleviation of legal pitfalls & liabilities – suggestions & a checklist

Speaker’s CV

Mr.Lee Kwok Weng, B.Eng. (Mech.)(S'pore), M.Sc.(Ind.Eng)(NUS), DipBA(NUS), GradDip Mktg.(MIS), LLB(Hons)(Bucks), LLM(Lond), Barrister-at-Law, Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore, Accredited Arbitrator & Mediator, MMIS, FIES, Honorary Legal Advisor, IES & SISO, is currently in private legal practice.

He has been for many years an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business Admin, National University of Singapore, teaching Business Law in the MBA programme.. He specialises in Business Contracts, Negligence, Information Technology and Engineering & Building Laws. He is a very experienced lecturer and trainer and is well-versed in the technical field, marketing and management practice too.

Mr.Lee brings with him considerable industrial project and business development management experience, having worked as a project manager in a leading Multi-national engineering and construction corporation serving the oil and gas industries onshore and offshore.

A knowledge lawyer himself, Mr.Lee also brings with him a wealth of practical knowledge & experience of the legal requirements, setting & starting and managing businesses in the knowledge economy as he is a co-founder of and legal/corporate adviser to some IT/internet & other companies.