NEC tools, quizzes and downloads
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Notice Builder
Early warnings, compensation event notices, quotations and replies, with the right clause and dates for your contract.
Build a noticeContract Health Check
Twenty questions, a score by area, and your biggest risks with what to do about them.
Check a contractBusiness case calculator
What manual tracking could be costing, from your own figures, with a document to give to whoever decides.
Make the caseQuick answers
Look something up while you are working. None of these asks you for anything.
Clause finder
1,921 clause references across 18 NEC3 and NEC4 forms, by number or by topic.
Find a clauseDeadline calculator
Work out reply, notice and payment dates, with the standard periods or your own.
Work out a dateContract picker
A few questions, and a form to start reading about.
Pick a contractMain Option picker
Which main Option suits the work, and who carries which risk.
Pick an OptionGlossary
Key NEC terms, A to Z, in plain English.
Open the glossaryTime periods by contract
Reply, quotation, payment and termination periods, side by side for every form we have confirmed.
Compare the periodsWho does what, by when
The main NEC4 ECC clocks, sorted by who has to act.
See the listClause index
Read through the clauses by topic, in plain English, with a guide for each.
Browse the indexAbbreviations
CE, PWDD, PMI, SCC and the rest, explained.
Look one upGuides A to Z
Every guide on this site in one alphabetical list.
Open the listStart here
Where to begin, by role.
Pick your roleTest yourself
Fifteen questions at a time from more than 1,800 across 7 contract families. Every answer is explained.
NEC4 ECC quiz
A free quiz on the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract, from core clauses and compensation events to main and secondary Options, with explanations.
Start this quizNEC3 ECC quiz
Core clauses, options, compensation events, payment, disputes and termination.
Start this quizNEC4 subcontract quiz
Periods, compensation events, payment, disputes and termination.
Start this quizNEC4 Professional Service quiz
Skill and care, compensation events, payment and disputes.
Start this quizNEC4 Term Service quiz
Task orders, plans, affected property, compensation events and payment, with clearly marked nec3 tsc questions.
Start this quizNEC short contracts quiz
When to use them, how they differ from the full forms, and how their clauses and time limits work in practice.
Start this quizNEC4 Supply quiz
Roles, batch orders, delivery, defects, payment, compensation events, title and termination.
Start this quizAll quizzes
Choose from every contract family.
See all quizzesPlay a role
7 scenarios of about eight minutes each. You make the decisions, and the contract responds.
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 roleTake something away
51 files to use on your own contracts: clause sheets by form, registers and trackers, letter templates and one-page checklists.
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