NEC role-play scenarios
Reading a clause is easy. Using it on a Friday afternoon with the Client on the phone is not. Pick a seat on a fictional contract, make the calls, and see what each one costs you.
Each scenario takes about eight minutes. At the end you can ask for a personal debrief, with what you did well, what cost you and what to read next. We just ask where to send it. It is training, based on an unamended contract, and not legal advice.
Or go straight to a role
Project Manager role-play
A year on one NEC4 ECC job, told in the decisions that shape it. Replies fall due, the Client wants answers, and the easy option is rarely the safe one.
Play this roleContractor commercial role-play
You are the Contractor's commercial manager or QS. Entitlement is there to be lost: by a missed eight weeks, by weak weather data, by under-certification, or by records nobody kept.
Play this rolePlanner role-play
You are the Contractor's planner. Your programme is a contract document, and everyone would like the dates to say something else.
Play this roleSupervisor role-play
Test, inspect, search and notify, while people ask you to do things that belong to the Project Manager. Knowing where your role stops is half the job.
Play this roleClient representative role-play
You pay the bills, but you are not the Project Manager. Budgets, site visits, an angry councillor and a pay less notice with days to spare.
Play this roleSubcontractor role-play
Shorter clocks, the Contractor as your paymaster, and a promise of payment next week. You play this one under the NEC4 subcontract.
Play this roleNEC3 Project Manager role-play
For readers still on NEC3. It is the same method with different numbers, and some of the consequences catch out anyone used to NEC4.
Play this roleWant the facts first?
The quizzes cover the rules, and the guide to NEC roles explains who does what.
See the same decisions in software
The fictional company and contractors in these scenarios also appear in our guided tour.