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Doha -18:00hrs – 19:00hrs

The IHE Middle East Branch would like to invite you to their online technical CPD webinar on Wednesday 12th March 2025. 

Details

The NEC Engineering and Construction Contract can to anything that FIDIC can do – Red, Yellow or Silver as it:

– allows any level of design by the Contractor and

– has six options for how to pay:

+ A priced contract with activity schedule ‘lump sum’
+ B priced contract with bill of quantities ‘remeasurement’ – Client takes quantity risk
+ C target contract with activity schedule – quantity and efficiency risk shared
+D target contract with bill of quantities – quantity risk with Client, efficiency risk shared
+ E reimbursable contract – quantity and efficiency risk with Client
+ F management contract – risk allocation depend on options used (A to E) in the subcontracts

>And it is:

• designed for flexibility
• written in plain English and
• designed to support project management and collaboration.

The webinar will introduce the basics of the NEC family of contracts and the NEC Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) and look at how it compares with FIDIC.

Presenter – Richard Patterson, Mott MacDonald

Richard is a chartered civil engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and procurement and NEC specialist. He has been with global development, engineering and management consultant, Mott MacDonald for over 35 years.

Richard was part of the drafting team for NEC4, part of the ICE’s working group on procurement, contracts and carbon/net zero and was one of the four-person team that developed NEC’s recently released secondary option X29, Climate change.

Richard leads on NEC for Mott MacDonald and delivers in-house and client training and training for NEC Training, including their 4-day ECC Project Manager accreditation course. He is very keen on getting NEC used more widely and has given NEC training in Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Ethiopia, France. Germany, Hong Kong. Ireland, New Zealand, Qatar, Peru, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka and the USA.

In December 2022 and January 2023, he was invited by the Buildings and Construction Authority (BCA) in Singapore to present on NEC at BCA’s annual conference. Richard has contributed to two NEC books, had 7 NEC papers published in ICE’s Proceedings and sat on the Editorial Advisory Panel of the ICE’s journal, Management, Procurement and Law. He is also a frequent contributor to the NEC website and newsletter (67 articles at the last count and eight in 2023!).

Most of his articles are linked from his Linked-in page at: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/coolsoberandsmiling