Guides to contracting and payment certificates
Practical guides by the Ta3mir engineering team for what a contractor and a technical office engineer deal with every day: payment certificates, retention, price adjustment and the rules for public contracts in Egypt. Each guide opens with a short definition, includes a worked example and links to the matching template and tool.
How to prepare a payment certificate
Certificate types and contents, previous, current and cumulative, deductions and approval, with a worked example.
Retention money
How retention is worked out in each certificate, the cap, when it is released, and how it differs from a guarantee.
Price adjustment for contractors
When price adjustment is due and the general index formula with weights, with a step-by-step example.
Law 182 of 2018
The articles of Law 182 and its Regulation that matter to a contractor: payments, retention, advance and delay.
FIDIC Red Book 2017 for contractors
The time limits that matter to a contractor in the FIDIC Red Book 2017, the payment cycle to the final certificate, claims and variations.
Earned value (EVM)
The earned value formulas PV, EV and AC, the SPI and CPI indices and the estimate at completion, with a worked example.
Quantity take-off
How to take quantities off the drawings: order, units, the measurement sheet and the bill of quantities, with a worked example.
Late certificate payments
What a contractor can do when a certificate is paid late: payment periods and financing charges under Law 182 and FIDIC 2017.
Construction glossary
Short definitions of the main construction contract and site terms in Arabic with their English equivalents, grouped by topic.