Training Courses
Set out below are our standard set of training courses. These courses have been developed over many years from our extensive experience and are particularly tailored to their target audience.
In addition to the courses listed below we can develop bespoke training and collaboration courses and workshops to meet your specific needs and requirements. Please use our contact form to make an enquiry for prices and availability.
NEC4 Awareness Training
Target Audience
Beginner: No experience of the NEC3
Duration
All day
Content
General overview
Payment (under the main options)
Early Warnings and compensation events
Defects and the programme
JCT D&B 2016 (Main and Subcontract)
Target Audience
Beginner: Little to no experience of the JCT
Content
The D&B 2016
Contract Articles and Recitals
Contract particulars
Contract Conditions
Schedules
Review of mechanisms
Payment
Claims
Management of the works
Compensation Events: The process
Target Audience
Inexperienced: Aware of the contract but not sure of the procedure
Duration
½ day
Content
Review of Clause 6
Understanding the implications of not following the process
Determining obligations and timelines
NEC Intermediate
Target Audience
Reasonable level of knowledge about the NEC
Duration
All day
Content
Deeper dive into the NEC mechanisms around payment and change control.
NEC Advanced
Target Audience
Candidates that are familiar with the contract to a good level
Duration
2 days
Content
This two-day course is based around a ‘notional’ project and goes from completing the Contract Data, through to final account. There are 8 sessions in total and each session consists of a contractual question based upon a scenario to which the delegates have to give a full contractual answer. A copy of the contract is required.
NEC Project Manager’s course
Target Audience
People that need a complete understanding of the Project Manager’s role under the NEC contract
Duration
2 days
Content
A project management based course covering; Project Start Up, Programme and Risk Management, Commercial Management and Contract management and Project Closure.
Compensation Events: Evaluating Prices
Target Audience
Inexperienced: Know the process but need to understand better how to evaluate CE’s
Duration
½ day
Content
Understanding the SCC and Disallowed Cost
Understanding the various percentages
Treatment of risk
Project Manager’s assumptions
Calculating the value of a CE
The Accepted Programme
Target Audience
Inexperienced: Need to understand how general programming principle fit within the NEC provisions
Duration
½ day
Content
The purpose of the Accepted Programme
Time risk allowance and treatment of float
Treatment of planned Completion and the Completion Date
Examination of how the NEC deals with extensions of time
Risk and Insurance Under the NEC3
Target Audience
Inexperienced: aimed at project managers and commercial managers/QS
Duration
½ day
Content
Core Clause 8
Examination of other factors affecting risk
Management of risk with early warnings
Risk reduction meeting exercise
Preparing an NEC3 contract (subcontract)
Target Audience
Intermediate: for those that review contracts and draft subcontracts. Builds on the awareness course and the understanding risk course.
Duration
½ day – full day
Content
Understanding the main options
Understanding secondary options
Understanding the requirements for the contract data
Preparation of the contract data for an imaginary project
Subcontracting under the NEC3
Target Audience
Intermediate: for those on site dealing with subcontractors
Duration
½ day
Content
Review of the Contractor’s responsibilities for subcontracting
Treatment of Subcontractors under the NEC3 - what does it mean commercially
The risk of using subcontractors, including the subcontracted fee percentage
Programme exercise assessing the impact of subcontractor delay on the main contract
Commercial awareness in the NEC3 environment
Target Audience
Intermediate: for those that have a grasp of the contract but need further training to put it into context
Duration
½ day
Content
Construction related Acts
Manipulation of the Fee and other percentages in the contract data
Calculation of the WAO and PFPO
Dispute avoidance under the NEC3
Target Audience
Intermediate: staff that need to understand how to get the best out of the contract
Duration
½ day
Content
Contracting under the NEC and the nature of the contract itself
Things to look out for
Compliance with contractual requirements
How to set yourself up to prepare for an adjudication
NEC4 conversion course
Target Audience
All
Duration
½ day – full day
Duration
½ day – full day
Content
A review of the changes from NEC3 to NEC4
Changes in terminology
Changes in mechanism
Alterations to the risk balance
Changes to the commercial elements of the contract, including the contract data and the various fee percentages
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