Glenn Hide

Glenn Hide is widely recognised within the construction industry as one of the leading NEC3 Contract and Project Planning experts. He brings over 25 years of experience working in the construction industry on a wide variety of construction projects, most of which for the Birse Group. His areas of expertise are Planning and Project Management, having been involved in the full lifecycle of many very large construction projects from inception to close out and in particular, successfully controlled the planning, costs and project management of projects which have been exclusively under the NEC form of contract.

Survey: Use of cloud based systems with NEC contracts

Last year, we carried out a “state of the industry survey” around various issues currently faced of which the results are available on our GMH […]

University of Leeds: Law and Contract Management (NEC4) Course

Just to share that shortly the Law and Contract Management course run by the University of Leeds is commencing, to which GMH Planning provide the […]

HIGHLIGHTS: NEC People Conference Scotland 2025

Really pleased to share the release of our highlights video from the 2025 NEC People Conference held in Glasgow, Scotland on 23rd September. It gives […]

NEC4 Webinar- Common Pitfalls in NEC Contract Management and How to Avoid Them (SE1 EP1)

Managing NEC contracts can be complex, and even experienced teams can fall into avoidable traps that increase cost, delay, and disputes. This webinar will highlight […]

HIGHLIGHTS REEL: NEC People Conference 2024 London

Really pleased to share the release of our highlights video from this years NEC People Conference held in London on the 18th June 2024. It gives a good insight and flavour of the day. We already have our Northern Conference advertised for Leeds on the

SURVEY: State of the Industry – NEC Contracts

As part of this years annual NEC People conference (18th June, 2024) we are carrying out potentially what we hope will be the biggest survey […]

NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract

NEC4 ECC & ECSC – Review of Changes

Here is our updated detailed clause by clause review of the changes introduced within the NEC4 versions of the Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) and […]

There is no such thing as concurrency under an NEC Contract!

That is a bold statement isn’t it, but broadly speaking I believe this to be true. It is other forms of contract that use this […]

Negative Float on an NEC Contract Programme

There are many misconceptions about this topic which this blog post will try to clear up. There are some Clients that actually state within their […]

Benefits of a programme at tender stage

There are so many good reasons for a Contractor to submit a thoroughly detailed programme at tender stage. Often it will be a tender requirement […]

Clause 63.1 and “actual” versus “forecast” Defined Cost when assessing a compensation event

It appears to be a quite common misconception that if compensation event works have been carried out and the quotation not been agreed, that the […]

Top ten most important/favourite NEC4 clauses

Someone asked me recently on a training session what is my favourite clause within the contract. I said it was difficult to pick out a […]

Which programme should be used as the “baseline”?

I regularly get asked which programme should be used as the “baseline” in our NEC training sessions. There are two occasions when it will be necessary […]

Covid-19 Compensation Event clause

Before we knew anything about Covid-19, the effects would be claimable by the Contractor as a compensation event under clause 60.1(19) as a “force majeure” […]

Golden Rules for GMH Planning Academy Planners

Under NEC contracts it is imperative to have an Accepted programme every period. Not always easy on our fast paced construction projects where there is […]

NEC Option A – Don’t Get Caught Out

Still amazes me how people get caught out with NEC option A activity schedule-based contracts. Here are a few golden rules with regards to the […]

VIDEO: Project Controls Expo 2017- NEC4 Presentation

Here is the presentation I ran jointly with Hezron Ricketts from Th3rdCurve at the 2017 Project Controls Expo. The session explored some of the changes […]

GMH Planning Academy Launched

This month sees the launch of our GMH Planning Academy. This academy will provide experienced verified planners to our clients to meet their full/part time […]

NEC4 Professional Services Contract (PSC) – Review of changes

Here is a review from GMH Planning Ltd of the significant changes within the NEC4 Professional Services Contract (PSC) contract compared to that of the […]

Project Controls Expo – 16th November 2017

I am pleased to announce that I am speaking at this years Project Controls Expo and GMH Planning will be a Gold Sponsor for this […]

Changes to NEC4 recommended by NEC People forum

From our NEC People conference output in 2015 we gave a 23 point list of changes that as a group we wanted to see in […]