Course overview
NEC4 ECC – Beyond the Clauses is for project teams using the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract. It brings the main procedures together around the decisions needed to deliver the works, from preparing the contract documents to assessing change and payment.
Participants work through communications, early warnings, programmes, quality and commercial assessments using project scenarios. They consider what action is required, who needs to take it and what information supports the decision.
The course provides a broad grounding across the ECC. Role-specific courses develop particular responsibilities in more detail, while Operational Workshops allow a team to work through its own procedures and project issues.
What the course covers
Topics include:
The NEC4 framework
- Introduction to NEC4 and the contract suite
- NEC4 characteristics and philosophy
- The contract framework
- The documents forming the contract
Managing project delivery
- Communications
- Early warning
- Accepted Programme
- Quality management
Commercial management
- Defined Cost
- Payment
- Compensation events
- Beyond contract management
Course delivery
Training is delivered face-to-face for your organisation over one, two or three days.
A one-day course concentrates on the principal procedures and decisions. Two- and three-day formats allow more time for worked examples, exercises and discussion of the team’s project arrangements. The agreed scope determines the balance, rather than every duration covering the same material in the same depth.
Entry level establishes how the ECC procedures work and the responsibilities behind them. Experienced-level sessions use more demanding submissions, assessments and connected project scenarios to examine how those procedures operate in practice.
We agree the level and duration with you to suit your team’s experience and project requirements, including any contract amendments.
Who it’s for
The course is for the whole project team, including:
- Superintendents and Project Managers
- Contractors
- Contract Administrators and Commercial Managers
- Project Controls Personnel
- Client-side Delivery Teams
- Consultants and Advisors
- Programme and Project Management Office Personnel
