NEC Downloads & Publications

All downloads documents have been produced with over twenty years experience of working under NEC form of contract.

The downloads are available for visitors to the website for them to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the NEC contracts and how they may practically better administer their live projects.

These flowcharts, articles and bulletins should be read in conjunction with the GMH Planning guidance notes section, and also considered along side the suite of NEC3 & NEC4 training courses that are on offered by GMH Planning to develop and enhance the level of understanding to all parties working on an NEC project.

NEC Guidance Notes

NEC4 CECA Bulletin No 5 – Early warnings and the liability for not notifying them

GMH Planning in conjunction with CECA (Civil Engineering Contractors Association) are producing a series of monthly bulletins focusing each month on an aspect of NEC contracts that their members should take particular attention to. The fifth bulletin in our series is about understanding early warnings and the liability/sanctions of a Contractor not notifying early warnings, […]

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NEC4 CECA Bulletin No4 – Compensation Event Quotations and use of Assumptions

GMH Planning in conjunction with CECA (Civil Engineering Contractors Association) are producing a series of monthly bulletins focusing each month on an aspect of NEC contracts that their members should take particular attention to. The fourth bulletin is about pricing compensation event quotations and the use of assumptions, for which you can download a copy […]

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CECA/GMH Bulletin 3 – ECC Secondary Options

GMH Planning in conjunction with CECA (Civil Engineering Contractors Association) are producing a series of monthly bulletins focusing each month on an aspect of NEC contracts that their members should take particular attention to. The third bulletin is about choice of ECC Secondary Options under the contract and you can download a copy here: The […]

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NEC4 CECA Bulletin no2 – Key Dates

GMH Planning in conjunction with CECA (Civil Engineering Contractors Association) are producing a series of monthly bulletins focusing each month on an aspect of NEC contracts that their members should take particular attention to. The second bulletin is about Key Dates under the contract and you can download a copy here: The bulletins are meant […]

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NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract

NEC4 ECC Contract data

Here is an editable version of the NEC4 ECC contract data that you can use to complete for your own projects or for learning purposes.

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NEC3 & NEC4 Guidance Notes & Free NEC Downloads, NEC Training and NEC Events by GMH Planning Ltd

NEC4 2020 amendments

Here you can download the changes that have been introduced to the NEC4 contracts in 2020 to be read in conjunction with the previous versions of the contract previously issued.

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NEC4 CECA bulletin No 1 – Z clauses

GMH Planning in conjunction with CECA (Civil Engineering Contractors Association) are producing a series of monthly bulletins focusing each month on an aspect of NEC contracts that their members should take particular attention to. This first bulletin is on Z clauses and you can download a copy here: The bulletins are meant to be a […]

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NEC 2019 amendments – download

NEC have issued a revision to their NEC4 contracts in 2019 to supercede the 2017 version. Whilst most of the amendments are simply typo’s or small grammar changes, there are a few actual more significant changes to the main clauses, the most significant one being the change to clause 63.5. This now clarifies how you […]

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NEC People Conference 2019 Videos

Here you can download all the videos from this years 2019 NEC People conference including: 01 – Introduction to conference – Matt Smith (K&L Gates) 02 – LinkedIn Group and Reachback, new 2019 NEC4 amendments and use of Z clauses – Glenn Hide (GMH Planning) 03 – Midlands Highway Alliance and the collaborative use of […]

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2019 NEC4 amendment to clause 63.5

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 to assess change against the last Accepted Programme under NEC contracts. I have written previous articles on what NEC3 contracts must mean in this regards, and then commented on what […]

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NEC People Conference 2020: Celebrating Success

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 clicking on the agenda below. This is an invite only conference and invites are currently out to sponsor guests, but you can express your interest in attending this conference by […]

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NEC4 Amendments – Jan 2019

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 fundamental and you can download the full list here. One significant amendment however is the correction now to clause 63.5. NEC4 when it was first published in 2017 added a […]

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