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NEC Users' Group consists of over four hundred member organisations representing clients, consultants, designers, project managers or contractors with the following aims:
- to provide regular newsletter advising of NEC developments and through which members can communicate information on their usage of NEC
- to provide a helpline facility to answer members' questions
- to provide free or discounted access for members to a range of NEC products and services
- to act as a conduit whereby the views of members can be passed to the NEC Panel and vice versa
- to provide presentations on NEC for new or prospective users and consultancy services for existing users
- to receive feedback from its members on their experience of using NEC to enable continuous improvements to be made to the suite of documents
- to promote wherever possible the wider use of NEC
The NEC Users' Group operates as three regional groups:
- Australasia
- Asia-Pacific
- United Kingdom
"Carillion is one of the founder members of the NEC User Group and has seen it flourish out of all expectation from its early inception. We must applaud the User Group Helpdesk which has always provided very clear and rapid responses".
Adam Green, Managing Director, Carillion Infrastructure.
Chairmen
Each group has its own chairman, who will have a regional remit to:
- represent users in appropriate forums
- chair formal NEC Users' Group seminars and workshops
- act as a liaison point between the Users' Group, the NEC Panel and NEC publisher Thomas Telford on issues as they affect Users' Group members and the general development of NEC
- promote wherever possible the wider use of NEC
The current chairmen are Steve Rowsell (UK, of Rowsell Right Consulting & formerly of Crossrail), Warwick Fergusson (Australasia, of Meridian Energy Ltd) & TC Chew, of (Asia-Pacific, of MTR Corporation in Hong Kong)
Secretaries
Each group also has a secretary, who each fulfil the following roles for their region:
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support or act on behalf of the Users' Group chairman in all activities
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respond to queries from the technical helpline
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contribute FAQ's to the newsletter
Current secretaries are:
- Robert Gerrard (United Kingdom) Robert.gerrard@thomastelford.com
- Marc Palmer (Australasia) Marc.palmer@merdianenergy.co.nz
- Ivan Cheung (Asia Pacific) Ivan.cheung@echarris.com
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