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Andy Thompson is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, but one who has spent the last 20 years working in, on and around NEC Contracts, predominantly in the Highways Sector in the UK and Ireland. He is proud to say that none of those projects have ever needed to go to a formal dispute. Today he mixes the roles of NEC Project Manager – he is currently PM on 3 NEC ECC Projects, and Employer’s Representative on another contract under the Irish Public Works form – and delivering NEC Training and independent Consultancy through his own company, drawing on that current, real life experience. He has worked on the development, tendering and implementation of NEC’s of (almost!) all types and sizes and spanning ECC, PSC and TSC and their various short and subcontract variants.
Angel Dominguez is a chartered civil engineer with more than 16 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry. He has worked for large contractors as a site engineer, project manager, and senior planning engineer, gaining practical experience in the civil engineering, infrastructure, building, and renewable energy (solar and wind farms) sectors. As a testifying delay expert witness, Dominguez has been appointed in litigation, international arbitration, and adjudication proceedings in the field of delay and disruption, giving evidence in both English and Spanish.
Director at Gleeds in Peru. Civil Engineer, MBA, MDI, NECReg. Experience in PMOs, FIDIC, Dispute Boards, and he is member of the DRBF. More than 30 years of professional experience and more than 8 years directly managing standard contracts. He worked for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima as infrastructure leader and PM for one of the first 5 NEC3s in Peru and in Spanish world, and in 2020 he was in charge of the infrastructure for the Peruvian pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai. Since 2021, he has been advising 3 of the largest portfolios of projects for schools, hospitals, city drainages and valley/river solutions against El Niño Phenomenon, for more than 12 bn dollars with NEC NEC3/4, all in Peru. Augusto is leader of NEC4 in his country and Latam and was recognised by this institution in London in June 2025. He is a tutor for the first level of NEC in Spanish and also is a reviewer for the Spanish version of this contract. He is the creator of the NECthon, an event for all supporters and fans of this great contractual tool. In LinkedIn he has more than 21,000 followers and the last year has won a prize in Peru as the first position as B2B leader in that social networking
Widely respected for his extensive experience with contract management and digital transformation, Walker founded CEMAR in 2003 to help large-scale infrastructure projects manage New Engineering Contracts (NEC) and International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) contracts. CEMAR proved instrumental in delivering iconic projects for National Highways, Nuclear New Build, ITER, Heathrow Airport, HS2, Network Rail, and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Its rapid adoption across the industry led to its acquisition by Thinkproject in 2018.
Business Development Executive, RPCuk. Chris joined RPCuk in 2020 but has been working in the project controls arena for 13 years. The last 10 of these have been spent dealing with software solutions for the likes of Oracle and Aconex, giving him extensive experience across a wide array of organisations within the public and private sectors and across a number of specialist disciplines, such as document control, cost management and change management – predominantly NEC contracts. With this background, he is both excited and wellplaced to help RPC to bring their innovative Oracle Primavera Unifier Solution Sets to market. He fully understands the need – common to all industries using NEC4 contracts – for an efficient, trusted and integrated solution that offers compliance, a high level of control, collaborative working practices and a reliable way to mitigate risk and has extensive experience in working with clients to shape the solution that best meets their requirements.
Dr Jon Broome has over twenty-five years involvement with the NEC family of contracts as an academic, author, trainer and consultant. As an academic, Jon studied under one of its two co-instigators gaining the world’s first PhD through applied research on its use.His finding was fed back into the second edition and third editions, for which his contributions were acknowledged. He has also led the development of the Professional Services Short Contract, in developing the concept and drafting the clauses.As an author, he has numerous articles and academic papers published, is the author of the highly praised book ‘NEC: A User’s Guide’ series of books (with the NEC4 version published last year) and, together with Glenn Hide, wrote the NEC3 eLearning Academy from Built Intelligence.As a trainer, he has delivered over 800 days of training around the world on all aspects of the contract.As a consultant, he prefers to be involved in the front end helping develop contract strategy, particularly for complex projects, from which he has written additional clauses, critiqued and developed the other contract clauses, helped run the selection process and then trained the team
Glenn Hide: Director of GMH Planning Ltd which for over 18 years has provided specialist training/consultancy and management resources to those working and administering under the NEC family of contracts. His engaging practical training style has led to a large proportion of the industry calling on GMH Planning for their NEC contract training. Glenn has presented on aspects of the contract at various national conferences and had published into the industry a number of articles. Glenn is the founder of the NEC People LinkedIn Group from which this annual conference has emerged which now has over 12,200 active users and by far the biggest discussion forum for NEC in the UK.
Ian has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry, including aviation, oil & gas, rail, water, highways and building. He has worked with clients in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Far East, North America and Australia including government bodies, private sector employers and contractors. Ian specialises in the development of innovative procurement strategies with particular expertise around partnering, alliancing and target cost contracts.
Ian is a member of the NEC4 Contract Board has been directly involved in drafting and shaping the fourth generation of NEC contracts. In addition to his NEC and procurement work Ian also acts as adjudicator, dispute resolver and quantum Expert Witness.
Jim Warner is the Construction and Dredging Manager at Harwich Haven Authority (HHA) and the inventor of Tiamat, an innovative, nature-based dredging technology.
Lesley is a contract and procurement specialist at Jacobs, an accredited NEC4 ECC Project manager, and regularly delivers training on NEC.
Matthew Smith focuses on advising on UK and international transport, energy and infrastructure projects and disputes. He has more than 25 years’ experience in advising on construction and infrastructure projects and has acted for owners, contractors and consultants on many different disputes utilising many different forms of dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation with values into the billions of pounds. Matthew also advises on procurement strategy and contractual arrangements for major infrastructure projects, particularly those utilising the NEC3 and NEC4 forms, FIDIC and bespoke EPC contracts. He has advised on structuring numerous complex and high value projects including light and heavy rail projects, complex systems signalling and special airport system projects, marine, nuclear, LNG, oil and gas refineries, roads, bridges, water, offshore wind farms and FPSOs, tunnelling and pipelines.
Neil is a quantity surveyor and project manager with over 30 years of experience in procuring and managing NEC contracts in the UK construction industry. He is a recognised expert in NEC contracts and as a trainer has delivered over 1,000 NEC Training courses, spoken at numerous national/international conferences, authored articles and had his work published. Neil’s article on key dates is cited in Dr Jon Broome’s NEC4: A User’s Guide which also includes a write-up of a workshop on collaborative working under NEC held at the NEC People Conference which he co-facilitated with Jon. Through his work across many sectors of industry over the years he has built up an extensive practical knowledge of the NEC contracts and how to set them up and manage them to improve the likelihood of successful outcomes from your projects and services.
Nick, a stalwart in the construction software industry with 22 years of experience, is the Managing Director of Digital Beehive. His extensive experience in the construction industry provides a solid foundation for shaping Beehive’s strategic vision and navigating the complexities of the ever-evolving landscape.
Nick Woodrow is a specialist in NEC4 contract administration and currently serves as the Operations Director at RPCuk. He is widely recognised for his expertise in using digital tools to streamline NEC processes, particularly in scaling B2B SaaS solutions for project management.
Nicola Ellis Focuses on advising clients on non-contentious matters, including advising on negotiating and drafting construction documentation and the various forms of dispute resolution. She has extensive experience advising on construction and infrastructure projects, acting for developers, contractors and consultants on numerous standard form contracts (particularly NEC, FIDIC and JCT) and appointments, as well as bespoke forms. She also advises on the construction arrangements for a range of international infrastructure projects including renewable energy power projects. Nicola advised the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors as part of the drafting committee on the 2019 update to its Standard Form Consultants’ Appointment. She has worked on numerous rail projects around the world including both ‘brownfield’ and ‘greenfield’ rail signaling projects in the UK, Qatar and Malaysia. Nicola has extensive experience of NEC3 and 4 and regularly lectures on the subject.
Richard is a chartered civil engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and procurement and NEC specialist with global development, engineering and management consultant, Mott MacDonald. Richard was part of the drafting team for NEC4, has been part of the ICE’s working group on procurement, contracts and carbon/net zero and contributed to NEC’s soon to be released secondary option relating to ‘net zero’. Richard leads on NEC for Mott MacDonald and delivers in-house and client training and training for NEC Training, including their 4 day ECC Project Manager accreditation course. Richard is very keen on getting NEC used more widely and has given NEC training in Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Ethiopia, France. Germany, Hong Kong. Ireland, New Zealand, Qatar, Peru, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka and the USA. Richard has contributed to two NEC books, had 7 NEC papers published in ICE’s Proceedings and sat on the Editorial Advisory Panel of the ICE’s journal, Management, Procurement and Law.
Tamzin Dempster is an associate and a member of the Construction and Infrastructure practice group. Tamzin has over seven years of post-qualified experience working almost exclusively in construction and infrastructure, providing contentious and non-contentious advice. Tamzin has acted for employers, main contractors and subcontractors, with a sound working knowledge of various contract forms and models including design and build, term maintenance, PPPs and alliances. Prior to joining the firm, Tamzin was an in-house counsel at an New Zealand-based construction and building materials firm where she focused her practice on assisting the construction division with high value disputes, distressed projects, and major tender reviews within New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Yosof Ewing is a transformative figure in the construction industry, committed to ensuring subcontractors, whom he calls ‘specialist contractors,’ receive equitable contract terms and timely payments. With nearly 35 years in the field, Yosof spun out his coaching business in October 2022, driven by a personal mission to protect smaller contractors from the abusive actions of larger contractors he witnessed first-hand when his father’s business was forced into liquidation due to non-payment by major construction firms.Yosof empowers specialist contractors with the knowledge and confidence to assert their rights, offering expert guidance in contract negotiations and adjudication. He actively advocates for systemic change in the industry, highlighting the financial and psychological toll of late payments. Yosof’s empathetic approach, rooted in his own experiences, and his innovative solutions have established him as a trailblazer and a trusted advisor in the construction sector, aiming to foster a fairer and more supportive industry environment.
