Using NEC contracts to manage risk and avoid disputes

Using NEC contracts to manage risk and avoid disputes

Richard Patterson, NEC4 drafter, wrote an article for ICE’s Management, Procurement and Law journal entitled "Using NEC contracts to manage risk and avoid disputes".

In this article, he provides his views on Risk distribution inclduing Allocation and Management.

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Why we need to start adapting project bank accounts to ring-fence retentions

Why we need to start adapting project bank accounts to ring-fence retentions

As I mentioned in my last editorial, it is over 5 years since the UK government published its consultation report on reforming the practice of withholding cash retentions

Do what NEC4 ECC says or face the ‘enforcement clauses’

Do what NEC4 ECC says or face the ‘enforcement clauses’

This article, which is an update from one on NEC3 ECC published in the Issue 79, looks at each of the clauses and how they are enforced.

London’s NEC-procured Elizabeth line becomes one of the UK’s busiest railways

London’s NEC-procured Elizabeth line becomes one of the UK’s busiest railways

NEC contracts were used to procure most of the infrastructure and systems for the £19 billion Elizabeth line in London.

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