Writing
Notes on the contracts.
Patterns that decide whether a claim, a programme or a final account survives. Real clause references, anonymised numbers. Longer answers than the Contract Assistant gives.
NEC34 min read
Why most NEC3 compensation events get rejected
Three patterns we see on every NEC3 project: notifications without an event in 60.1, notifications outside the eight-week window, and quotations that don't separate Prices, Completion Date and Key Dates.
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JBCC4 min read
The JBCC final account mistake costing contractors R2M+
Final accounts go wrong long before the final account. Two failure modes — undocumented verbal variations and missed submission deadlines — and how to run JBCC contracts as instruments from day one.
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NEC35 min read
What B2–B5 contractors get wrong about NEC3 programmes
The Accepted Programme isn't a Gantt chart you submit once. Submitted properly under Clause 31, it protects time and cost. Submitted as a bar chart, it does neither.
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