Webinar: Introducing the Framework Alliance Contract
Date: Oct 9 Time: 11am (1 hour)
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FAC-1 brings together clients, consultants, contractors and the supply chain in a single collaborative agreement. Used on over £100 billion of projects, it provides a clear structure for improving value, managing risk, and integrating delivery across multiple contracts.
In this free one-hour webinar, you will:
- Understand the purpose, structure and benefits of FAC-1
- Distinguish FAC-1 from other contracts as an integrator of programmes and projects
- See how FAC-1 has been applied successfully in high profile projects and programmes
- Learn how FAC-1 complements NEC Contracts
- Hear why FAC-1 is recognised in the Construction Playbook as a Gold Standard contract
The webinar will provide one hour of informal CPD.
Event Speakers
Professor David Mosey CBE FICE, Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution, King’s College London , NEC Contract Board member
Professor David Mosey CBE PhD leads procurement research at the King's College London Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution where he was Director from 2013 to 2020. David was formerly head of Projects and Construction at law firm Trowers & Hamlins from 1991 to 2013.
David was appointed by the UK Government in 2021 to lead an “Independent Review of Public Sector Construction Frameworks” His recommendations for improving value, improving safety, managing risk and achieving net zero carbon are set out in “Constructing the Gold Standard” and were endorsed by Government and industry in the 2022 “Construction Playbook”.
David co-authored "Guidance on Collaborative Procurement for Design and Construction to Support Building Safety" to demonstrate how collaborative systems such as balanced evaluation, early supply chain involvement, multi-party contracts and BIM are essential to avoid another Grenfell Tower disaster. This guidance is being used by the new Building Safety Regulator as a measure of compliance.
David received the 2021 TECSA Clare Edwards Award for “professional excellence and an outstanding contribution to the legal profession serving the construction and infrastructure industry”. He is principal author of the “FAC-1” framework alliance contract, adopted on procurements worth over £100 billion, and he was awarded a CBE in the 2023 New Year Honours List for “services to the construction industry”.
Kevin Murray, Managing Director, Metre Sq Limited
Kevin has more than twenty-five years’ experience in senior leadership roles as a Director of private sector consultancies and head of Profession in public sector roles. Kevin’s experience and expertise includes the development and implementation of property, construction and facilities management strategies, including those of a complex, high-value and high-risk nature. Kevin is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS). He has extensive experience in contracts based on collaboration and alliancing. For example, the design and procurement of alliancing for major construction programmes for the Ministry of Justice and the £30bn Crown Commercial Service Construction Works and Services Framework that used FAC-1 as the framework agreement. He has been a member of the Alliance Sterring Group since its inception. He established his own practice in 2019 and continues to work on market leading construction and facilities management strategies and procurement based on alliancing.