NEC guides, A to Z
A
- Acceleration Under NEC
- Accepted Programme
- Accepting a Defect
- Access Dates and Starting Work
- The Activity Schedule
- Actual Cost Came In Higher Than Our Accepted Quotation
- Actual Cost Was Less Than the Accepted Quotation: Do We Keep It?
- Adjudication Under NEC
- The Adjudicator
- Advantages of NEC Contracts
- Ambiguities and Illegal Requirements
- Another Contractor Is Delaying Us: Is That a Compensation Event?
- Answering Your Finance Director's Questions on NEC Software
- Are Late IFC Drawings a Compensation Event?
- Are Our Head Office Overheads Recoverable?
- Assessing a Compensation Event: Clause 63
- Assessing Delay to Completion
- Assessment Date and Assessment Interval
- Auditing Defined Cost
- Avoiding Disputes on NEC Contracts
- Avoiding Treated Acceptance by Keeping Replies on Time
B
- Back-to-Back NEC Subcontracts
- The Benefits of NEC Contract Management Software
- The Bill of Quantities Under NEC
- Building the Business Case for NEC Software
C
- Can a Compensation Event Be Notified Without an Early Warning?
- Can a Contractor Terminate an NEC Contract?
- Can a Main Contractor Pay Only When It Has Been Paid?
- Can Delay Damages Apply While Compensation Events Are Unresolved?
- Can the PM Refuse Completion Because of Snagging?
- Can We Add Margin on Subcontractor Costs?
- Can We Carry On Without a Written Instruction?
- Can We Give Too Many Early Warnings?
- Can We Notify a Compensation Event Before It Happens?
- Can We Recover Loss of Profit on Omitted Work?
- Can We Still Refer a Dispute After the Time Limit?
- Can We Submit One Global Claim for Everything?
- Choosing Secondary Options
- Clause 10: Mutual Trust and Co-operation
- Clause 11: Identified and Defined Terms
- Clause 13: Communications
- Clause 14: Project Manager and Supervisor
- Clause 61.1: Project Manager Notification
- Clause 61.3: The Eight-Week Time Bar
- Clause 61.4: Project Manager Decision
- Clause 61.5: Failure to Give an Early Warning
- Clause 62.3: Time to Submit and Reply
- The Client Changed Their Mind on the Design: How Is It Handled?
- The Client Has Not Paid on Time: What Are Our Rights?
- The Client Is in Breach but No Event Fits: Is There a Remedy?
- The Client Keeps Instructing the Contractor Directly: What Should We Do?
- The Client Missed the Pay Less Notice: What Happens?
- The Client Moved In Before Completion: What Happens?
- The Client Restricted Our Access Part Way Through
- The Client Told Us on Site to Change Something: Is That Valid?
- The Client Wants to Audit Our Books: Do We Have to Agree?
- The Client Wants to End the Contract: What Are the Options?
- The Client Wants to Omit Work: Can They?
- The Client Wants Us to Finish Early: Must We Agree?
- The Client Will Not Give Us Access to Fix a Defect
- The Client's Budget Is Being Exceeded: What Controls Exist?
- The Client's Change Used Up Our Float: Can We Claim?
- Client's Liabilities
- The Client's Role Under NEC
- Closing Out the Final Account
- Common Compensation Event Mistakes
- Common Early Warning Mistakes
- Common NEC Payment Mistakes
- Common Z Clause Mistakes
- Compensation Event Examples
- Compensation Event Flow Chart Explained
- Compensation Event Notice Template
- The Compensation Event Process Step by Step
- Compensation Event Quotation Template
- Compensation Event Software
- Compensation Event vs Relief Event
- Compensation Event: A Changed Decision
- Compensation Event: A Client Liability Event
- Compensation Event: A Corrected Assumption
- Compensation Event: Access Not Provided
- Compensation Event: Additional Events in the Contract Data
- Compensation Event: Change to the Scope
- Compensation Event: Client Breach of Contract
- Compensation Event: Client or Others Not Working as Stated
- Compensation Event: Client Taking Over Early
- Compensation Event: Instruction to Stop or Not Start Work
- Compensation Event: Late Reply to a Communication
- Compensation Event: Materials or Facilities for Tests
- Compensation Event: Objects of Value or Interest Found
- Compensation Event: Physical Conditions
- Compensation Event: Prevention
- Compensation Event: Quotation for a Proposed Instruction Not Accepted
- Compensation Event: Something the Client Should Provide
- Compensation Event: Test or Inspection Causing Delay
- Compensation Event: Tests and Searches Finding No Defect
- Compensation Event: Weather
- Compensation Event: Withholding Acceptance for Other Reasons
- Compensation Events Have Not Been Added to the Target
- Compensation Events Under Option A
- Compensation Events Under Option C
- Compensation Events Under Option E
- Compensation Events Under Options B and D
- Completion
- Completion Date
- Completion Date and Planned Completion
- Construction Contract Management Software
- The Consultant Under the PSC
- Contract Administration Software for Construction
- Contract Data
- Contract Date
- The Contractor Did Not Submit an Application: Do They Still Get Paid?
- The Contractor Has Not Submitted a First Programme
- The Contractor Has Not Submitted a Quotation: What Can the PM Do?
- The Contractor Has Stopped Sending Forecasts
- The Contractor Has Stopped Updating the Programme
- The Contractor Will Not Fix a Defect
- Contractor's Design
- The Contractor's Duties Under NEC
- Contractor's Liabilities
- Correcting Defects
- Cost and Fee Changes in NEC4
D
- Deemed Acceptance of a Programme Under NEC4
- Defect
- A Defect Appeared After Completion: Who Fixes It?
- A Defect Appeared After the Defects Date: What Now?
- Defect Correction Period
- Defects Certificate
- The Defects Certificate Explained
- Defects Date
- Defects Date Explained
- Delay Damages
- Delay Damages Have Been Deducted: Can We Challenge Them?
- Difference Between JCT and NEC for Clients
- Disadvantages of NEC Contracts
- Disallowed Cost Explained
- Dispute Resolution Changes in NEC4
- Do We Actually Need NEC Software?
- Do We Need the PM's Acceptance to Appoint a Subcontractor?
- Does an Early Warning Count as Notifying a Compensation Event?
- Does Giving an Early Warning Admit Fault?
- Does PM Acceptance Remove Our Design Responsibility?
- The Drawings and Specification Disagree: Which One Applies?
E
- Early Contractor Involvement Under NEC
- Early Warning Notice Template
- Early Warning Register
- The Early Warning Register
- Early Warning Register Software
- Early Warning Register Template
- Early Warnings for Subcontractors
- Early Warnings: What Changed in NEC4
- ECC vs ECSC: Full or Short Contract?
- ECC vs PSC: Works or Professional Services?
- ECC vs TSC: Works or Term Service?
- Employer vs Client in NEC
- Ending an NEC Subcontract
- Equipment
- Equipment, Plant and Materials
- An Event Beyond Anyone's Control Has Stopped Work
F
- Failure to Reply: Treated Acceptance
- Fee
- The Fee Under NEC
- The Final Assessment
- Final Assessment of the Amount Due in NEC4
- The First 30 Days on an NEC Contract
- Force Majeure and NEC
- The Full List of NEC3 ECC Compensation Events
- The Full List of NEC4 ECC Compensation Events
H
- The History of NEC Contracts
- How an NEC Contract Is Structured
- How Disputes Work Under NEC
- How Do We Claim Prolongation Under NEC?
- How Do We Prove a Weather Compensation Event?
- How Does the Client Get a Price Before Instructing a Change?
- How Good Records Reduce NEC Disputes
- How Is Disruption Recovered Under NEC?
- How Often to Revise the Programme
- How Software Helps You Avoid Missed NEC Time Bars
- How to Choose an NEC Main Option
- How to Choose NEC Contract Software
- How to Choose the Right NEC Contract
- How to Notify a Compensation Event
- How to Write an Early Warning Notice
I
- IFC Drawings Are Late: Should We Give an Early Warning?
- Implementing a Compensation Event
- Indemnities Under NEC
- Insolvency and NEC Contracts
- Insurance Under NEC
- It Has Rained for Weeks: Can We Claim for Weather?
J
K
- Keeping a Clear NEC Audit Trail
- Keeping a Compensation Event Register
- Keeping a Defects Register
- Keeping NEC Knowledge When People Move On
- Key Date
- Key Dates in NEC
L
- Learning NEC4: What Your Team Needs to Know
- Limiting Liability Under NEC
- Looking for a CEMAR Alternative?
M
- Making an NEC Payment Application
- Making Clause 10 Work in Practice
- Managing Many NEC Contracts Without Losing Track
- Managing NEC Communications
- Managing NEC Contracts: A Practical Guide
- Managing NEC Subcontracts
- Material Prices Have Risen Sharply: Can We Recover the Increase?
- The Most Common NEC Mistakes
- Moving a Live NEC Contract Onto Software
- Moving From NEC3 to NEC4
N
- NEC Accreditation: How It Works
- NEC and Public Sector Procurement
- NEC Clause 15 Explained
- NEC Clause 31 Explained
- NEC Clause 32: Revising the Programme
- NEC Clause 50: Assessing the Amount Due
- NEC Clause 51: Certifying Payment
- NEC Clause 52: Defined Cost Accounting
- NEC Compensation Events: The Complete Guide
- NEC Contract Administration
- NEC Contract Management Software
- NEC Contract Meaning
- NEC Contract Reporting
- NEC Contract Types: Which Form Do You Need?
- NEC Contracts Explained for Beginners
- NEC Contracts Explained: The Complete Guide
- NEC Core Clauses Explained
- NEC Definitions: A Glossary of Key Terms
- NEC Disputes and Termination
- NEC Early Warnings: The Complete Guide
- NEC ECC Contract Overview
- NEC Forms: What You Need
- An NEC Guide for Clients
- An NEC Guide for Commercial Managers
- An NEC Guide for Consultants
- An NEC Guide for Contractors
- An NEC Guide for Planners
- An NEC Guide for Quantity Surveyors
- An NEC Guide for Subcontractors
- NEC Letter Templates: What to Include
- NEC Main Options: A to F Explained
- NEC on Building Projects
- NEC on Energy and Nuclear Projects
- NEC on Highways Projects
- NEC on Maintenance and Term Contracts
- NEC on Rail Projects
- NEC on Water Projects
- NEC Option A Worked Example
- NEC Option A: Priced Contract With Activity Schedule
- NEC Option B: Priced Contract With Bill of Quantities
- NEC Option C Worked Example
- NEC Option C: Target Contract With Activity Schedule
- NEC Option D: Target Contract With Bill of Quantities
- NEC Option E Worked Example
- NEC Option E: Cost Reimbursable Contract
- NEC Option F: Management Contract
- NEC Option G Term Contracts: What It Means
- NEC Outside the UK
- NEC Payment and Defined Cost: The Complete Guide
- NEC Payment Application Software
- The NEC Payment Timeline
- NEC Programme Approval Software
- NEC Programme Review Checklist
- The NEC Programme: A Complete Guide
- The NEC Project Manager
- NEC Project Manager Responsibilities Checklist
- NEC PSC vs Other Consultancy Appointments
- NEC Questions Answered: Real Situations on Site
- NEC Risk, Liabilities and Insurance
- NEC Roles: Who Does What on an NEC Contract
- NEC Secondary Options: X, Y, W and Z Clauses Explained
- NEC Software vs Spreadsheets
- The NEC Supervisor
- NEC Templates: A Practical List
- NEC Time Bars Explained
- NEC vs FIDIC
- NEC vs GC/Works
- NEC vs ICC
- NEC vs Other Construction Contracts
- NEC3 Contract Software
- NEC3 Contracts Explained
- NEC3 Main Options
- NEC3 Option A: What to Know
- NEC3 Option C: What to Know
- NEC3 Option E: What to Know
- NEC3 Risk Reduction Meetings
- The NEC3 Risk Register
- NEC3 vs NEC4: The Main Differences
- NEC4 Alliance Contract (ALC)
- NEC4 Contract Data Explained
- NEC4 Contract Software
- NEC4 Contracts: A Complete Guide
- NEC4 Design Build and Operate Contract (DBO)
- NEC4 Dispute Resolution Service Contract (DRSC)
- NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC)
- NEC4 Engineering and Construction Short Contract (ECSC)
- NEC4 Engineering and Construction Short Subcontract (ECSS)
- NEC4 Engineering and Construction Subcontract (ECS)
- NEC4 Facilities Management Contract
- NEC4 Framework Contract (FC)
- NEC4 Option A: What to Know
- NEC4 Option B: What to Know
- NEC4 Option C: What to Know
- NEC4 Option D: What to Know
- NEC4 Option E: What to Know
- NEC4 Professional Service Contract (PSC)
- NEC4 Professional Service Short Contract (PSSC)
- NEC4 Professional Service Subcontract (PSS)
- NEC4 Questions and Answers
- The NEC4 Suite of Contracts
- NEC4 Supply Contract (SC)
- NEC4 Supply Short Contract (SSC)
- NEC4 Term Service Contract (TSC)
- NEC4 Term Service Short Contract (TSSC)
- NEC4 Term Service Subcontract (TSS)
- NEC4 Terminology Changes
- A New Project Manager Is Reversing Earlier Decisions
- New Regulations Mean Extra Work: Who Pays?
- Notifying Defects
O
- Open Book and Cost Records
- Option A vs Option B
- Option A vs Option C
- Option C vs Option E
- Others
- Our Contractor Has Gone Insolvent: What Does the Client Do?
- Our Main Contractor Has Not Paid Us: What Can a Subcontractor Do?
- Our Materials Are Delayed by the Supplier: Who Takes the Risk?
- Our Own Designer Is Late With Drawings: Who Pays?
- Our Permit Has Been Delayed: Who Takes the Risk?
- Our RFI Has Not Been Answered: What Can We Do?
- Our Subcontract Is Not on an NEC Form: Does It Matter?
- Our Subcontractor Notified Late: Can We Still Claim Upstream?
P
- Pain/Gain Share Explained
- Parties
- Pay Less Notices Under NEC
- Payment for NEC Subcontractors
- Payment on Termination
- People
- Period for Reply
- Plant and Materials
- The PM Certified Far Less Than We Applied For
- The PM Disallowed Our Costs: How Should We Respond?
- The PM Has Not Replied to Our Compensation Event Notice
- The PM Has Not Replied to Our Quotation
- The PM Issued an Instruction but No Compensation Event: What Now?
- The PM Keeps Asking for Revised Quotations
- The PM Refused to Accept Our Design: What Now?
- The PM Rejected Our Compensation Event Without Reasons
- The PM Says We Have Not Reached Completion: Who Decides?
- The PM Should Have Notified It: Does the Time Bar Still Apply?
- The PM Told Us to Stop Work: What Should We Do?
- The PM Wants a Member of Our Team Removed: Can They?
- The PM Will Not Accept Our Programme: What Now?
- The PM's Assessment of Our Compensation Event Is Too Low
- Price for Work Done to Date
- Price for Work Done to Date (PWDD)
- Prices
- The Prices
- Professional Services Under NEC
- Programme Acceptance and Reasons for Not Accepting
- Programme Changes in NEC4
- Programme Submission Template
- The Project Has Finished but Compensation Events Are Still Open
- Project Manager Instruction Template
- Project Manager Instructions
- The Project Manager Replied Late: Is It Automatically a Compensation Event?
- The Project Manager Works for the Client: Are They Impartial?
- Proposed Instructions and Quotations in NEC4
- PSC Main Options
Q
R
- Reasons for Termination
- The Registers Every NEC Contract Needs
- The Relationship Has Broken Down: What Does Clause 10 Actually Require?
- Retention Under NEC
- Revised Drawings Arrive After IFC: Is That a Change to the Scope?
- Revised Quotations: When and Why
- Risk Allocation by Main Option
- Risk Allowances in Quotations
- Risk Register
- Running an Early Warning Meeting
- Running an NEC Kick-off Meeting
S
- The Schedule of Cost Components Explained
- Schedule of Cost Components: Charges and Overheads
- Schedule of Cost Components: Equipment
- Schedule of Cost Components: People
- Schedule of Cost Components: Plant and Materials
- Scope
- Searching for Defects
- Sectional Completion
- Seeing Your NEC Commercial Position at a Glance
- Senior Representatives
- The Service Manager
- Setting Share Ranges and Percentages
- The Short Schedule of Cost Components
- Should a Subcontractor Warn the Main Contractor or the PM?
- Should We Go to Adjudication or Keep Negotiating?
- Site
- The Site Flooded: Who Is Responsible Under NEC?
- Site Information
- Snow or High Wind Stopped Work: Is That Covered?
- Subcontract Management Software
- Subcontractor
- Subcontractors and Defined Cost
- Submitting the First Programme
- The Supervisor Made Us Open Up Work and Found Nothing
- The Supervisor Says the Work Is Defective but We Disagree
- The Supervisor Under NEC4
T
- A Table of Key NEC Time Periods
- Target Cost and the Contractor's Share
- Task
- Task Orders Under NEC Term Service Contracts
- Terminal Float in NEC
- Termination Procedures
- Termination Under NEC
- A Test Failed: Who Pays for Retesting?
- Tests and Inspections
- There Is No Accepted Programme: How Are Events Assessed?
- Time Limits for NEC Disputes
- Time Risk Allowance in NEC
- Tracking NEC Contracts in Spreadsheets
- Tracking Periods for Reply
- The Tribunal
- TSC Main Options
U
- Uncorrected Defects
- Using the Programme to Assess Compensation Events
- A Utility Company Is Late: Who Takes the Risk?
W
- W1: Dispute Resolution Where the Act Does Not Apply
- W2: Dispute Resolution Under the Construction Act
- W3: Dispute Avoidance Board
- We Are Heading Over Target on Option C: What Now?
- We Are Running Behind Programme: What Should We Tell the PM?
- We Can Save the Client Money: How Do We Propose It?
- We Cannot Get Enough Labour: Is There Any Relief?
- We Cannot Price the Quotation Yet Because Facts Are Unknown
- We Disagree With the Final Assessment
- We Do Not Have Records for Our Defined Cost
- We Found Archaeology on Site: Who Pays?
- We Found Asbestos During the Works: What Do We Do?
- We Found Contaminated Ground: What Happens Under NEC?
- We Found Unmarked Utilities: Is It a Compensation Event?
- We Gave an Early Warning and the PM Ignored It
- We Have Not Been Given Access to the Site: What Do We Do?
- We Hit Unexpected Ground Conditions: Who Pays?
- We Missed a Key Date: What Does It Cost?
- We Missed the Eight-Week Time Bar: Is It Over?
- We Need to Replace a Key Person: What Is Required?
- We Priced the Job Wrong: Can We Get It Changed?
- We Stopped Work for a Safety Reason: Who Pays?
- A Weekly NEC Routine
- What an NEC Contract Manager Does
- What an NEC Programme Must Show
- What Changed in NEC4 Termination
- What Counts as Completion?
- What Does NEC Stand For?
- What Happens If No Early Warning Is Given?
- What Is a Compensation Event?
- What Is an Early Warning Under NEC?
- What Is an NEC Contract?
- What Is Defined Cost?
- What Is NEC3?
- What Is NEC4?
- What Is the Accepted Programme?
- What Poor NEC Administration Really Costs
- What Should Be Early Warned?
- When Should Retention Be Released?
- When the Project Manager Assesses a Compensation Event
- Who Gives an Early Warning?
- Who Has to Use NEC?
- Who Owns Float in NEC?
- Why an NEC Contract Needs a Single Audit Trail
- Why Clients Use NEC Contract Software
- Why Contractors Use NEC Contract Software
- Why Email Is a Poor Way to Run an NEC Contract
- Why NEC Project Managers Use Contract Software
- Why Quantity Surveyors Use NEC Contract Software
- Why Subcontractors Use NEC Contract Software
- Why Use NEC Contract Management Software?
- The Work Has Been Suspended for Months: Can We Terminate?
- The Work Is Already Done: How Do We Quote?
- Working Areas
- The Works
- Works Information
- Works Information vs Scope
X
- X10: Information Modelling
- X11: Termination by the Client
- X12: Multiparty Collaboration
- X13: Performance Bond
- X14: Advanced Payment to the Contractor
- X15: The Contractor's Design
- X16: Retention
- X17: Low Performance Damages
- X18: Limitation of Liability
- X19: Task Order (NEC3) and Termination by Either Party (NEC4)
- X1: Price Adjustment for Inflation
- X20: Key Performance Indicators
- X21: Whole Life Cost
- X22: Early Contractor Involvement
- X2: Changes in the Law
- X3: Multiple Currencies
- X4: Ultimate Holding Company Guarantee
- X5: Sectional Completion
- X6: Bonus for Early Completion
- X7: Delay Damages
- X8: Undertakings to the Client or Others
- X9: Transfer of Rights
Y
Z
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