{"id":1639,"date":"2010-03-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2010\/03\/10\/the-dab-selection-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T10:00:00","slug":"the-dab-selection-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/concessions-investments\/the-dab-selection-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"The DAB selection guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. The size of the project, and\/or its documentation. Larger projects are likely to have more disputes and in such situations a full term DAB may be more appropriate. In small contracts it is usually better to appoint an ad hoc board as and when the problems arise as this may be more cost efficient.<\/p>\n<p>2. Parties may not want to have to send progress reports on a regular basis and coordinate regular site visits. An ad-hoc board may therefore be more appropriate as it is less bureaucratic.<\/p>\n<p>3. The complexity of the project. In complex projects, where the likelihood of disagreement is high, a full term DAB may be more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>4. FIDIC in its red book, which is the most commonly used standard contract for construction projects, recommends that a three member DAB is appropriate for a contract involving an average monthly payment certificate exceeding $2m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When choosing between a full term DAB or an ad-hoc DAB the parties should balance the advantages and disadvantages of each. The following factors should be considered:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concessions-investments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}