About this Seminar

Mega-construction projects face challenges on several fronts – worsening labour crunch, more complex projects, heightened supply chain disruption risks, and increasingly multi-sourced project financing. Many aspects of these challenges can be mitigated by transforming the construction procurement approach.

The economic case is compelling – the more complex the project, the more difficult it is to deliver value through traditional contracting forms. Option Module E in the PSSCOC 2020, incorporating the SIDP 2018, has pushed collaborative contracting to the forefront as the best approach to deal with complexity. The case for collaborative contracting is now being extended beyond the construction industry with the introduction of INTEGRAF, a more generic adaptation of the SIDP, which can be applied across a broad range of relational contracts other than construction contracts – joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, facilities management and software development contracts.

This presentation examines the principles underlying INTEGRAF as distilled from recorded case studies and how they are intended to be applied in the Singapore context.

Seminar Programme

Supporting Organisation

About the Speaker

Mr. Chow Kok Fong PBM - Chartered Arbitrator

Chow Kok Fong, PBM is a Chartered Arbitrator. He was previously CEO of Changi Airports International and the Construction Industry Development Board (a government body) and has held appointments as Chairman and Managing Director with a number of major construction and real estate companies. He chaired a Ministry of Law Working Group drafting the Singapore Infrastructure Dispute Protocol published in 2018 and has served as a member of the Singapore Government Ministry of Finance Development Projects Advisory Panel since 2012. He was referred to by the Singapore Chief Justice as “the doyen of Singapore construction law” while a Malaysian Federal Court Judge described him as “the scholar of our lifetime”. His 21 books on the subject have been extensively cited by the Courts in Singapore, Malaysia as well as arbitrators, adjudicators and academic writers on construction law.

About the Seminar Chairs

	Mr. Lee Chau Ee - Immediate Past Chairman, Society of Construction Law (Singapore)     Chau Ee is a past chair of SCL Singapore. He has specialised as a construction, energy and infrastructure lawyer for more than 25 years. During this time, he has lived and worked in London, Dubai and Beijing, besides Singapore. He has been permanently based in Singapore since late 2019. He continues to act for parties up and down the supply chain from conception through completion of a project life cycle, providing an unique offering of “cradle-to-grave” project life-cycle advice including dispute management (risk mitigation, dispute avoidance, appropriate dispute resolution encompassing international arbitration, DAB/DRBs and mediations), with a primary focus on the energy and infrastructure (including offshore and marine) sectors. Besides a law degree, he holds an MSc Construction Management (Project Management).
	Ms. Joanna Seetoh – Partner, Harry Elias Partnership LLP; Council Member, Society of Construction Law (Singapore) Joanna has 16 years of experience in disputes and advisory work in the construction and infrastructure sector. She is accredited as a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, as well as an Accredited Specialist in Building and Construction Law by the Singapore Academy of Law. Joanna has extensive experience as lead counsel in arbitrations seated both locally in Singapore and internationally representing major contractors in large-scale infrastructure disputes across a wide range of jurisdictions and sectors. Having practiced in both Singapore and Hong Kong, Joanna frequently advises and represents clients as lead counsel in a variety of disputes, including rail and metro, power and solar plants, mining, integrated resorts, and commercial and residential building projects across Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia and South Africa. Joanna is ranked as a Future Star in Construction by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific, by Asialaw as a Notable Practitioner in Construction, and as one of the Singapore Business Review’s Most Influential Lawyers under 40. She is also a contributor to the leading construction law text in Singapore, The Law and Practice of Construction Contracts (2018, 5th Edition).

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Continuing Professional Development  

Practice Area: Building & Construction Training Level: General Public CPD Points: 1.5