A Legacy in Print
Forty-five years in the field. One book.
A career in civil engineering is, in the end, a long apprenticeship in judgement. Drawings change, contracts change, even the standards change — but the obligation to record what happened, to value it correctly, and to defend it on paper does not.
Engr. Javed Akhtar Paracha spent the bulk of those forty-five years inside that obligation. At NESPAK, on national projects of the scale of the Faisal Masjid, and on countless smaller works besides, he watched young engineers learn the same lessons he had once learned — usually the hard way, usually after a notice had been missed or a measurement had not been taken in time.
Project Management with FIDIC is the answer he wished he had been handed on his first day at site. It is not a textbook for the classroom. It is a reference for the desk: chapter by chapter, with the model letters, flowcharts, and estimation tables that turn FIDIC clauses into actions you can take this morning.
“Tools, properly cared for, outlive their makers.”
— From the introduction
Featured project
Faisal Masjid, Islamabad
Among the most recognisable civil works in the country, the Faisal Masjid project represents the kind of long-horizon, multi-discipline coordination that the author spent much of his NESPAK career delivering. The procedural discipline required on works of that scale runs through every chapter of this book.