From the Editors – Construction Law International – December 2025

Dear readers,

We are delighted to introduce the December issue of Construction Law International (CLInt) after the successful IBA Annual Conference in Toronto last month.

This will be my final issue as Committee Editor. I have found my two years as Committee Editor very enjoyable indeed reading articles and updates from around the world and seeing how much we all have in common and how interesting our few differences are. I have found it a pleasure working with our team of editors, who are ever ready to take on any additional task to ensure that CLInt remains an informative and engaging magazine.

We have an article from Colombia on budgetary allocations for public-private partnerships (PPPs) and an article from India on force majeure and the evolution of risk allocations. We also have an update from Norway pursuant to a significant judgment of the Supreme Court on changes or variations.

Last, but by no means least, we have an article on ‘Dispute resolution fit for a queen’ which arose from a panel discussion at the IBA Annual Conference last year in Mexico City.

Apart from this, I am very happy to share that the International Construction Arbitrators Association (ICAA) has been launched. The ICAA is the brainchild of Edward Corbett, a former Co-Chair of ICP and the founder of CLInt. The steering group that established ICAA includes ICP members Aisha Nadar, Aarta Alkarimi and Jim Perry. The ICAA lists arbitrators who are specialists from the international construction industry, whether lawyers or other professionals. Edward and the other founders believe that international construction disputes need specialist international construction arbitrators, but no such list currently exists. So, the ICAA is modelled on the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, which lists shipping specialists for maritime disputes. The ICAA list is a mix of construction lawyers and engineers from common and civil law countries.

One of the ICAA’s objectives is to bring on the next generation of international construction arbitrators. So, the ICAA has set up its Next Generation Membership and will invite 20 men and 20 women in their 40s or 50s to join. They will be construction professionals working with FIDIC-type contracts, with some experience of international arbitration and available to accept nominations as international construction arbitrators. The lists are available on the ICAA website at www.intcaa.org. The ICAA will nominate arbitrators on request.

We thank our contributors for sharing their experience and insights. As always, we encourage all ICP members to contribute to CLInt by submitting articles to Thayananthan Baskaran at thaya@baskaranlaw.com.

Thayananthan Baskaran
Committee Editor, IBA International Construction Projects Committee
Baskaran, Kuala Lumpur
thaya@baskaranlaw.com

Eric Franco
Deputy Committee Editor, IBA International Construction Projects Committee
Legal Delta, Lima
eric.franco@legaldelta.com