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The RICS "Responsible Use of AI in Surveying Practice" standard is live as of today, the 9th March 2026. It's a serious piece of professional governance, and it applies to...
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Mace v Baltic [2026] EWHC 976 (TCC), handed down on Tuesday, settled a question that had remained open since Walter Lilly: can an adjudicator overturn a prospective extension of time?...
I remember a Project Manager on a flagship UK project telling me: "NEC does not require CPM." The deeper consequence of that mindset aside, it got me thinking. Does it,...
Terminal float in NEC: Ownership, Mechanics, and Reality There's a persistent claim in construction that "the Contractor owns terminal float" under NEC. It's become shorthand advice, so let's unpack what's...
Most T2/T3 delay claims in the UK use the same method. Compare the baseline programme to what actually happened, calculate the gap, assert the Main Contractor caused it. Done. Simple....
Most people working under NEC contracts treat programme acceptance as a binary outcome - accepted means compliant, not accepted means exposed. That framing is too simple, and in practice it...
The RICS "Responsible Use of AI in Surveying Practice" standard is live as of today, the 9th March 2026. It's a serious piece of professional governance, and it applies to...
There is a persistent misunderstanding in the NEC community that has quietly cost Contractors money, diluted legitimate entitlement, and handed Employers an analytical advantage they were never supposed to have....
Why delay analysis is not the same as advanced planning Forensic delay analysis plays a critical role in the resolution of construction disputes. However, a material risk arises when...
NEC4 replaces the NEC3 Risk Register with the Early Warning Register (EWR). This is a sound change given that in NEC3 the Risk Register was confused with project risk registers supplementary...
Employers have been commissioning a third party to assist them with the management of engineering contracts ‘since the 19th century’ [1]. This role may be satisfied by a natural or...
In this article the author discusses how evaluative mediation can be used to improve the efficiency of Change Control on Projects operating under NEC3 type of Contract. NEC3 ECC The NEC3 Engineering...
In recent years I have noticed a trend amongst small and medium sized contractors that I would like to address. Some of you have probably realised by now that this...