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EIC and its French Member Federation SEFI-FNTP are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Spring Conference 2025 in Bordeaux.","2025-04-24","2025-04-25","Bordeaux, France","eic-spring-conference-2025",{"id":276,"width":277,"height":278,"title":279,"blurhash":280},"ef4349f7-9e0e-4d22-a0d1-8c676d08b8cd",5990,3992,"Shutterstock 384939334","UfOWNmjaIWxut:bcofoe%4n$R+WVa%WCkCRj",{"title":282,"topic":283,"summary":284,"date_start":285,"date_end":286,"location":287,"url":288,"cover":289},"EIC Autumn Conference 2024","Collaborative Delivery Models","Velkommen til København - WELCOME TO Copenhagen EIC and its Danish Member Federation, DI Danish Construction (DI Byggeri), are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Autumn Conference 2024 in Copenhagen","2024-10-03","2024-10-04","Copenhagen, Denmark","eic-autumn-conference-2024",{"id":290,"width":291,"height":292,"title":293,"blurhash":294},"20a86ce1-f129-434b-86d3-96159a9ebac6",1406,1000,"Image","UuMQ6RMdNHx]_NV@s:ofg5S#odaf%goLayof",{"title":296,"topic":10,"summary":297,"date_start":298,"date_end":299,"location":300,"url":301,"cover":302},"Joint FIEC-EIC Spring Conference 2024","Bienvenue à Bruxelles – WELCOME TO Brussels FIEC and EIC, in collaboration with its Belgian Member Federation, Embuild, are pleased to welcome you to the Joint FIEC-EIC Spring 2024 Conference in Brussels with a Workshop on: Building the change: Ho","2024-05-16","2024-05-17","Brussels, Belgium","joint-fiec-eic-spring-conference-2024",{"id":303,"width":23,"height":304,"title":305,"blurhash":306},"9c4996ff-5f12-4e64-b720-b3e752bfd382",1396,"Shutterstock 1946871412 Scstock Standardlizenz Websize.jpg","UsH2gRaJWrSjBHS6s,aeIuS6kDWBwsn#WEa#",{"title":308,"topic":10,"summary":309,"date_start":310,"date_end":311,"location":312,"url":313,"cover":314},"EIC Autumn Conference 2023","Welkom in Amsterdam– WELCOME TO Amsterdam EIC and its Dutch Member Federation, Netherlands Association of Maritime Business (NABU), are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Autumn Conference 2023 in Amsterdam with a Workshop on: The Global Energy Tran","2023-10-05","2023-10-06","Amsterdam, The Netherlands","eic-autumn-conference-2023",{"id":315,"width":130,"height":316,"title":317,"blurhash":318},"57e1a1ec-5e09-407b-8e1c-b5887752839d",1534,"Leitmotiv Shutterstock 2219032311 Web Besser.jpg","UYJt3U^*%1s.~9%1s+ofogbwM{RjS*WYaejb",[320,331,342,353],{"title":321,"summary":322,"tags":10,"url":323,"article_date":324,"cover":325},"FIDIC 2017 Suite of Contracts","EIC is since almost fifty years a \"friendly reviewer\" of the FIDIC standard forms of contract and submitted comprehensive comments for the various rounds of consultations during the preparation of the 2017 edition of the FIDIC suite of contracts. ...","fidic-2017-suite-of-contracts","2018-04-10T22:00:00",{"id":326,"width":327,"height":328,"title":329,"blurhash":330},"9f491eaa-2aa4-40e7-a356-ec604f7d0b4f",539,297,"Fidic 2017 Suite 0.png","UlRo$^V??^tmV?oetRV[x]ofRPWAx]kCV@WA",{"title":332,"summary":333,"tags":10,"url":334,"article_date":335,"cover":336},"EBRD Seminar on 2017 FIDIC Forms of Contract","On 27 September 2018, EBRD held an Industry Conference titled “Changes to the FIDIC Forms of Contract – Red, Yellow and Silver Books” in London. EIC participated in the event with a delegation led by EIC President Philippe Dessoy. ...","ebrd-seminar-on-2017-fidic-forms-of-contract","2018-10-17T22:00:00",{"id":337,"width":338,"height":339,"title":340,"blurhash":341},"9003fd4c-c500-49b2-94fe-77c42ce622c5",389,276,"Logos Ebrd Fidic Crop.jpg","UfQA5J-pofWCj]off6j@~WM|WCayt6f6azWB",{"title":343,"summary":344,"tags":10,"url":345,"article_date":346,"cover":347},"FIDIC \"Golden Principles\"","EIC welcomes that FIDIC has formulated in the Guidance section of the 2017 edition its five \"Golden Principles\" that it deems necessary to ensure its contracts remain recognisable as \"FIDIC\".FIDIC forms of contract progressively more risky for ...","fidic-\"golden-principles\"","2017-12-09T23:00:00",{"id":348,"width":349,"height":350,"title":351,"blurhash":352},"f6163903-2951-438f-bed0-a8998456f4fa",298,142,"Fidic Nl 0.jpg","UjQ].?az~ot7offQj[j[%Lj[M|ayofj@j@ay",{"title":354,"summary":355,"tags":10,"url":356,"article_date":357,"cover":358},"EIC Position on FIDIC 2017 Yellow Book published in the ICLR","The article, reproduced with kind permission of the International Construction Law Review (ICLR), summarises EIC’s observations as to what we consider as improvements and what we believe to be retrogressions with respect to the FIDIC 2017 Yellow Book ...","eic-position-on-fidic-2017-yellow-book-published-in-the-iclr","2020-09-09T22:00:00",{"id":359,"width":360,"height":103,"title":361,"blurhash":362},"bf136e84-dfa6-48f9-ae15-c3ae167e4c14",1280,"Book Cover Yellow Book Ed2017.jpg","UES$lm%M_4Ri?cWBMwozMxoftRWB-:ayM|of"]