NEC4: Practical Solutions

NEC4: Practical Solutions, Second edition is a practical ‘how to’ guide that answers commonly-occurring issues faced by users of the NEC4 contracts. Drawing on extensive experience and feedback, this fully revised and updated edition will help the reader to avoid common project pitfalls and to implement good practice, ensuring the successful delivery of project outcomes. The book is presented as a series of questions and answers, offering guidance on the practical application of the NEC4 contract forms. The chapters provide concise and practical solutions to over 270 common queries faced by practitioners during the design and implementation stages of a project, as well as addressing the risks associated with running a project. For ease of reference, the structure follows the same order as the Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC), enabling readers to use the book as a quick look-up tool to find answers to common queries and problems that occur in practice. This edition includes recent amendments and updates, as well as extended coverage of early warning provisions, Contractor’s proposals, compensation events and appropriate use of Z clauses. Written by two well-known NEC consultants NEC4 Practical Solutions is essential reading for engineers, surveyors, architects, project managers, supervisors, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, and anyone else working with, or interested in working successfully with, the NEC4 suite of contracts.