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  Contracts, Claims & Dispute Negotiations for Engineers, Technical Professionals & Contractors (rerun 56)

 

Date Scheduled

28, 29 October 2024 (Mon, Tues)

Time

8.30 am – 6.00 pm

Venue

Hotel Grand Pacific

101 Victoria Street Singapore 188018

This course is available either by zoom or at the hotel

Registration Fee

$790 per pax (inclusive of lunch & tea-break [for physical attendance only unless not permitted by law], course materials & electronic certificate of attendance; GST not applicable)

Early Bird Registration (Pay on or before 21 October 2024)

$700 per pax (inclusive of lunch & tea-break [for physical attendance only unless not permitted by law], course materials & electronic certificate of attendance; GST not applicable)

 

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Qualified by Professional Engineers Board for 16 PDUs or 16 CET Hours

                                                                    

Objectives

To share with participants the steps to meaningful contract, claims & dispute negotiations so that they can achieve the best target, outcome or performance that they, their employer or clients have set.

 

For whom:

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

**Note: For all disciplines of engineering

 

Course outline: 

Day 1

1              Negotiating Engineering Building & Construction (EBC) Projects & Contracts

 

2                    What is negotiation and why negotiate? What are the advantages of negotiating EBC Contracts, Claims & Disputes?

 

3                    Can negotiation or bargaining triumph over litigation in court or arbitration in resolving EBC Claims & disputes?

 

4                    Determining whether forming EBC project contract or engineering building construction claim and dispute is negotiable.

 

5          If negotiable, what needs to be done before going for negotiation?

 Day 2

6             The approaches to a successful negotiation in forming EBC project contracts and resolving

EBC Claims & Disputes

 

7             The styles, tactics and strategies of negotiating EBC project contracts or engineering building

     construction claims & disputes

 

8             Positioning yourself in negotiation of EBC project contracts or engineering building construction

     claims & disputes.

 

9            What a good negotiator requires and what makes a good negotiator in negotiating EBC project contract
    or engineering building construction claims & disputes

 

10        Case Study on Negotiation of EBC project contract or engineering building construction claims & disputes

 

11         Practice session on Negotiation of EBC project contract or engineering building construction claims & disputes
     through role play by participants

 

 

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 (Retired), Supreme Court of Singapore (Retired), Qualified Mediator & Arbitrator, MMIS, FIES, Honorary Legal Advisor, IES & SISO, a senior lawyer, was in continuous private legal practice for almost 29 years running his own law firm before his retirement from 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. Mr. Lee was also an Adjunct Lecturer in NTU & BCA Academy   for many years. He has been conducting courses too for a number of years in various other institutions like IES Academy.

 

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.

 

As a Negotiator in negotiating commercial and business dealings on behalf of his employers and clients throughout his working career both as a project manager & lawyer, Mr. Lee acquired a wealth of practical negotiation skills & experience.

 

Also Mr. Lee gains considerable practical negotiating skills & experience as a Mediator for many years having mediated in many commercial disputes when he was a Principal Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and as a private Mediator.

 

He also brings with him vast industrial project and business development management experience, having worked for than 12 years as a project engineer/manager in the public & private sectors. Eventually, before his switch to legal profession, he was a senior project manager in a leading Multi-national engineering and construction corporation serving the energy, marine, oil and gas industries onshore and offshore, managing numerous EPC projects.

 

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 companies.