FIDIC Adjudicator Details
International Client Manager
Giovanni Di Folco
Country of residence: Romania
Citizenship:
www.giovannidifolco.com
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Countries with experience
Other countries with experience:
Global regions
- Latin America
- North America
- South Asia
- East Europe
- West Europe
- Middle East
- Central Asia
- North Africa
- Sub Sahara Africa
- Caribbean
Languages spoken
- English
- Italian
- Romanian
- Spanish
Construction contract experience
- Construction Contract 2nd Ed (2017 Red Book)
- Construction Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Red Book)
- Construction Contract, MDB Harmonised Ed, June 2010
- Design-Build-Operate Contract, 1st Ed 2008
- EPC/Turnkey Contract 2nd Ed (2017 Silver Book)
- EPC/Turnkey Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Silver Book)
- Plant & Design-Build Contract, 1st Ed (1999 Yellow Book)
- Plant and Design-Build Contract 2nd Ed (2017 Yellow Book)
- Short Form of Contract, 1st Ed 1999
- Conditions of Contract for Underground Works (2019 Emerald book)
Consultancy contract experience
- Client-Consultant Agreement (White Book), 4th Ed 2006
- Client-Consultant Agreement (White Book), 5th Ed 2017
- Joint Venture (Consortium) Agreement, 1st Ed 1992
- Model Joint Venture (Consortium) Agreement 2ND Edition (2017)
- Sub-Consultancy Agreement, 2 Ed 2017
Specialist contract experience
- Construction Subcontract, 1st. Ed. 2011
Other contract experience
- FIDIC 4th Edition 1987 - 1992
CV - Services offered
- Arbitration
- Adjudication
- Technical expert
- Contract Expert/specialist
- Independent expert
- Expert witness
- Councillor
Technical expertise
- Airports - air-side
- Airports - terminals and support
- Airports - other
- Soil Erosion and Irrigation
- Building - commercial
- Building - industrial
- Building services - lighting/electrical
- Civil Engineering - Site Investigation
- Civil Engineering - Foundations and Subsidence/Settlement
- Civil Engineering - Land Drainage & Dewatering
- Civil Engineering - River & Flood Control
- Civil Engineering - Tunnelling and piling
- Civil Engineering - Retaining Walls
- Civil Engineering - Dams and reservoirs
- Civil Engineering - other
- Coastal engineering
- Construction law
- Cost engineering (QS)
- Environmental issues
- Geotechnics and foundations
- Energy & Power - Hydro Systems
- Energy & Power - Natural gas and LNG Facilities
- Energy & Power - other
- Infrastructure, Railways, Bridges
- Marine and ports
- Metro railway and stations
- Road and highways - Planning, Layout and Design
- Road and highways - bridges and car parks
- Road and highways - other
- Rail - High Speed rail
- Rail - Infrastructure Engineering and Maintenance
- Rail - Signalling and Communications
- Rail - Track Engineering and Construction
- Rail - other
- Rock Anchors & grouting Tunnels and Shafts
- Waste Disposal - Solid Waste Management
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Claims and variations
- Extension of time
- Project scheduling
- Defects
- Failure investigations
- Flood damage
- Technical issues
Short summary experiences
Adjudicator/Dispute Board, and/or Counsel and/or Delay Expert and/or Quantum Expert while deciding or representing/defending various International Entities or Clients during more than one hundred International Dispute Adjudication Procedures under FIDIC Red, Pink, Yellow and Silver books, 1st Edition 1999, during the period 2004 to 2020 for roads, highways and motorways, airports, ports, sanitation engineering, pipelines, environmental, transportation, commercial & industrial buildings, hospitals, power generation and distribution, oil & gas, residential and technology projects around the world. Counsel or Forensic Delay and/or Quantum Expert during International Arbitration under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and UNCITRAL Rules in more than forty International Arbitration procedures, during the period 2004 to 2020. Projects size in value varied from 30 million US Dollars to 1.2 Billion US Dollars.
Position and experience
Acredited mediator:
No
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position: Senior Partner
Previous positions: General Manager
Acredited arbitrator: No
Employment status:
Present position: Senior Partner
Previous positions: General Manager
Experience
- Highway engineering
- Pavement engineering
- Materials engineering
- Dispute Board Member
- Counsel Expert Witness Delay Analysis & Quantum Claims Expert
- Lecturer Adjudicator
- Planning Engineering
Affiliations/Memberships
- Member of Project Management Institute
- Member of Society of Construction Law
- Member of American Concrete Pavement Association
Panel listings
- FIDIC President List of Approved Adjudicators
- Fellow of Prime Dispute
- Fellow of Dispute Board Federation
Qualifications, jurisdiction and discipline
- Chartered Engineer - Italy - Civil Engineering
