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The ICE and BIFM are pleased that the next step in this process is now being released.

Peter Higgins, Chair of the NEC4 Contract Board, presented at CIC’s launch and introduced the new guidance for using the BIM Protocol with NEC4 contracts.

The common-law position, in the absence of express contract provisions, is that risks for ‘physical conditions’ principally lie with the contractor.

Cartrefi Conwy Housing Association, the largest social landlord in Conwy in Wales, has adopted NEC4 contracts for all future new building and maintenance work.

As most readers will now be aware, Carillion went into compulsory liquidation on 15 January 2018, leaving an estimated £2 billion of unpaid debts to suppliers.

ICE and BIFM to launch a joint initiative to develop contracting & procurement solutions and services.

Highways England has launched a new £9 billion NEC4-based framework for delivery of major motorway and A-road projects in England.

Project managers must abandon the widespread ‘fear of failure’ current preventing the collaborative approach, according to members of the Infrastructure Client Group organisation steering group.

NEC is joining ICE's Infrastructure District at Ecobuild. Visit us on stand G152.

Richard Patterson wrote an article for ICE’s Management, Procurement and Law journal entitled "NEC3 to NEC4 – evolution, not revolution; some fixes and some good ideas!".