Industry professionals with hands-on practical experience of the NEC
Have you ever : -
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Been late with an Early Warning and lost entitlement as a result
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Had a Compensation event refused by the PM
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Put lots of effort into a CE quotation only for the PM top assess it at far less than expected
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Failed to get the PM to accept your programme
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Incurred cost that that you could not get the PM to accept and pay
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Lost time or money you felt sure that you were entitled to
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What we can do for you
ADVICE
Genuine, practical and useful advice on all aspects of the NEC. We have loads real life operating experience, it means we understand the practicalities and know how to operate the NEC. We advise clients daily on all aspect however big or small. Get in touch, a call takes 5 minutes, there is no obligation or hard sell.
TRAINING
Our training classes are world leading. We teach what you need to know and don't just stand in front of you regurgitating the contract. Our trainers are down to earth straight-talking people, they know the roles that you staff perform because they have been there and done that.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
COMPLIANCE
We advice you on processes, notices, early warnings, instructions and every operating element of the NEC. A genuinely invaluable service, the NEC is a contract of processes, get one step wrong and you loose entitlement
CONTRACT REVIEW
We hardly ever see standard NEC contracts these days. The Employer (Client in NEC4) always amends the standard form. Don't ask your lawyer to review contracts for you, they over complicate, they sit on the fence and they frequently fail to provide the simple no nonsense advise that you need. If you haven't built dozens of construction projects (lawyers usually have not) you simply cannot understand the risk, we have, and so we do.
We have managed numerous disputes to conclusion. Our preferred approach is something that is perhaps unusual, we call it "tactical communication". There is usually a route to resolving disputes without adjudication and we firmly believe in avoiding formal dispute resolution. We play "gentle" and we play "hard", we won't kill relationships, we will resolve your dispute.
NEC TRAINING
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We have been in your shoes, we have operated dozens of construction projects under the NEC at commercial director and commercial manager levels, we have years of hands-on experience.
Some NEC trainers are just reading from a book, we have heard of a firm of lawyers that had sold an NEC training course and had to get an associate of ours to teach their staff so they could deliver the course! What an absolute joke.
You can pay someone to read the contract back to you (and call it training), or you can pay someone that knows how it works on the ground and how to make it work for you.
One course is not enough.
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We do offer an introduction course, we run through all aspects of the NEC. It is not enough, it is impossible t get into the detail in one day.
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We also know that you do not have all the time in the world for training, you have projects to deliver. To that end, we have designed an effective series of training modules that get the job done without taking your staff away from the job for too long.
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TRAINING MODULES
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Module one
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General
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Actions
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Identified and defined terms
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Interpretation and the law
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Communications
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The Project Manager and the Supervisor
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early warnings
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Contractor’s proposals
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Requirements for instructions
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Corrupt Acts
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Prevention
The Contractor’s main responsibilities
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Providing the Works
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The Contractor’s design
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Using the Contractor’s design
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Design of Equipment
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People
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Working with the Client and Others
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Subcontracting
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Other responsibilities
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Assignment
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Disclosure
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Module two
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Time
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Starting, Completion and Key Dates
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The programme
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Revising the programme
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Access to and use of the Site
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Instructions to stop or not to start work
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Take over
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Acceleration
Quality Management
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Quality Management system
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Tests and inspections
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Testing and inspection before delivery
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Searching for and notifying Defects
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Correcting Defects
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Accepting Defects
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Uncorrected Defects
Module three
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Payment
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Assessing the amount due
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Payment
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Defined Cost
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Final assessment
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The Activity Schedule (Option A).
Compensation events
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Compensation events (what are they)
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Notifying compensation events
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Quotations for compensation events
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Assessing Compensation events
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The Project Manager’s assessments
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Proposed instructions
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Implementing compensation events
Liabilities and insurance
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Client’s liabilities
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Contractor’s liabilities
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Recovery of costs
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WORKSHOP MODULES – 3hrs each.
Module one – Change part one
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Early warnings, including - risk reduction meetings, risk register, mitigation.
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Compensation events, including – what are they, notification.
Module two – Change part two
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Compensation events, including - quotations for compensation events, assessing compensation events, the project manager’s assessments, proposed instructions, implementing compensation events.
Module three – Programme and Activity Schedule
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The Activity Schedule (Option A) including, worked examples, designing to aid cash flow, materials off-site, link to the programme.
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Programme, including – work breakdown structure, cost loading, types of float, planned and completion dates, key dates.
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CONTACT US
OUR ADDRESS
Eafield Road
Littleborough, Lancashire
Email: james@necadvice.com
Tel: 07775 532443
Please fill out the form below to contact us with any questions or inquiries.
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