Without trying to sound to corny this article is a bit of closure for me in my quest for clarification to the industry of how […]
We are pleased to announce that registration for this years London conference on the 16th June is now open. You can find the agenda by […]
NEC have just issued some amendments to the NEC4 suite of contracts. On the whole they are corrections of typo’s or terminology rather than anything […]
Here is a paper from the output of a break out group at our 2018 NEC People Conference written by Neil Earnshaw and Rob Horne. […]
Whilst numerous live projects are still contracted under NEC3, it would be great to utilise some of the development of clauses that has been achieved […]
Finally we have a guidance note as to how to assess compensation events against the last Accepted Programme and what should first be taken into […]
Here is the GMH Planning detailed guide as to the most important changes within the new NEC4 version of the Professional Services Contract. For those […]
Here is the GMH Planning detailed guide as to the most important changes within the new NEC4 version of Engineering and Construction Short Contract. If […]
NEC4 have launched their new Alliance Contract but it is only a consultation version where they are inviting industry feedback before it is finalised and […]
Back in 2013, I wrote an article that exposed issues within NEC contracts as to what programme you should use when assessing compensation events and […]
Summary of NEC3 vs NEC4 changes and the NEC4 overview guide from Thomas Telford highlighting the main changes with the NEC4 family of contracts. NEC3 […]
Here is an article that has gone into the NEC3 Usergroup newsletter which looks at some of the reasons that programmes are not accepted and […]
Summary flowchart of the ECC compensation event process to help understand the process from notification through to implementation.
Project start up check list for anyone embarking on an NEC3 contract.
One of the break out sessions at this years conference was hosted by Richard Patterson and Barry Trebes. Attached is the ouput from that session […]
It is not uncommon for people to take a literal meaning of clause 32.1, that a revised programme should show implemented compensation events. Their response has been that therefore that you do not show non-implemented compensation events. Is this actually the case?
Whilst early warnings are matters that could affect time cost or quality, if something has affected or will affect time, cost or quality and is […]
The acceleration provisions are actually very simple under the contract and are the mechanism for bringing forward the Completion Date at the request of the […]
This clause requires that all subsequent programmes include actual progress achieved on each operation and effect upon remaining work, , how Contractor plans to deal […]
The Accepted Programme is key in agreeing the true state of play at any one point in time for that project. The regularly submitted programmes […]
