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30 July 2026

The FIDIC Gold Book: a whole life contract?

Mark Pantry explores FIDIC’s Gold Book and its distinctive approach to integrating design, construction, operation and maintenance within a single contractual framework. He examines how the Gold Book allocates long-term risk, the practical challenges of pricing and managing operational obligations over extended periods and why, despite its focus on whole-life asset performance, it has seen only limited adoption compared with the other standard FIDIC forms.

International Quarterly Issue 43

8 min read

08 December 2025

JCT Target Cost Contract 2024

Mark Pantry, a founding member of the JCT Young Professional Group, discusses the JCT’s new venture into Target Cost Contracts, a market which is dominated by NEC ECC Option C.

Annual Review Fenwick Elliott Annual Review 2025/2026

9 min read

02 December 2024

What Lies Beneath Revisited: ground risk and site conditions in the JCT Design and Build Contract, 2024 Edition

Unforeseen ground conditions remain an ever-present risk in most construction projects, and the clauses allocating such risk are usually amongst the most negotiated provisions in any contract. As a founder member of the JCT Young Professionals Group, Mark Pantry is perfectly placed to discuss, whether the publication of the JCT Design and Build Contract, 2024 changed the perceived standard position in favour of the contractor.

Annual Review Fenwick Elliott Annual Review 2024/2025

4 min read

29 January 2024

The developing right to terminate for convenience under FIDIC

Mark Pantry and Caitlin Binns assess how the wording of the termination for convenience clause has changed in the FIDIC Red, Yellow and Silver Books.

International Quarterly Issue 37

5 min read

15 December 2023

Review of Institution of Chemical Engineers (“IChemE”) Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) Contract (“The Blue Book”), first edition 2023

Mark Pantry reviews the industry’s first attempt at a standard form EPCM contract.

Annual Review Fenwick Elliott Annual Review 2023/2024

6 min read

29 December 2022

Early supply chain involvement and NEC4 Option X22

Mark Pantry reviews Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) and the use of Option X22 of the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract.

Annual Review Fenwick Elliott Annual Review 2022/2023

7 min read

30 November 2022

Inflation and Adjustment for Changes in Cost in FIDIC Red and Yellow Books

Very high levels of inflation caused by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine have led to construction price increases across the world.

International Quarterly Issue 33

3 min read

19 May 2022

NEC Accepted Programmes: a practical guide

In this practical webinar Claire King and Mark Pantry of Fenwick Elliott, together with delay expert Scott Jardine of Ankura, take a deep dive into NEC Accepted Programmes.

Webinar

1 min read

19 November 2021

What lies beneath: ground risk and site conditions

Mark Pantry looks at liability for unforeseeable ground conditions.

Annual Review Fenwick Elliott Annual Review 2021/2022

3 min read

08 June 2021

JCT Insurance Option C and Works to Existing Structures

Mark Pantry takes a look at JCT Insurance Option C and how insurance arrangements for works to and within existing structures are sometimes more complicated that first expected.

Blog

3 min read

25 February 2021