Subcontract Drafting • FIDIC Claims • Delay Analysis
Hello — I'm Selçuk Zeybek.
A contracts and planning professional on major railway and infrastructure projects. I draft and negotiate the subcontracts that put the work under contract — recently over USD 645M of them — and, when projects run late, I build the FIDIC claims that prove who owes what.
What I Work On
Areas of Expertise
FIDIC Claims
EOT, variation and compliance claims under FIDIC forms — from first notice to determination and DAB proceedings.
Forensic Delay Analysis
Evidence-driven critical path analysis to SCL Protocol principles — baseline vs. as-built, delay quantification, disruption.
Contract Administration
The discipline of notices, records and correspondence that keeps a contractual position intact.
Subcontract Drafting & Negotiation
Back-to-back railway subcontracts — lump-sum and WBS-priced — that hold a main-contract position all the way down the chain.
No obligation
Request a free claim review
Send a few lines about your project and where it stands. I'll come back with an initial, confidential view on the entitlement and what it would take to substantiate — at no cost.
- check_circleEOT, prolongation & disruption claims
- check_circleForensic delay analysis (SCL Protocol)
- check_circleFIDIC 1999 & 2017 — notices to determination
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Field notes, not textbook theory
Real claims, drawn step by step.
Every note here began as a live claim on a real railway project — a delay that actually happened, records that had to hold, an Engineer who had to be persuaded. The names are redacted; the mechanics, the arguments and the lessons are exactly as they played out.
Background
About Selçuk Zeybek
Contract and Planning Manager with 15+ years of international experience in contract administration, turnover management, and dispute evidence on multi-billion dollar railway and infrastructure projects across four continents.
Currently a Senior Contracts & Planning Manager with a leading international contractor, working across a portfolio of concurrent railway projects in East Africa.
International ExperienceThe Road So Far
The beginning
Turkey
Planning and contract roles on major construction projects — learning the trade where the programme meets the ground.
East Africa
Ethiopia
The Awash–Kombolcha railway: contract administration and claims on a landmark East African rail project.
Abroad
Georgia & UAE
International postings across rail and infrastructure works, on both the planning and contracts sides of the table.
Disputes
International arbitration
Forensic delay and disruption analysis for international arbitration proceedings, in association with HKA and ICM.
Today
Major railway portfolio
Senior Contracts & Planning Manager with a leading international contractor, across a portfolio of four concurrent railway projects totalling 1,225 km.
Get In Touch
Say Hello
Questions about the notes, FIDIC and delay analysis shop talk, or anything else — my inbox is always open.
Phone / WhatsApp
+90 532 708 2088Location
Istanbul, Türkiye