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Interactive course · NEC4 ECC

NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course

The NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract, from tender to final account.

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Waleed Tariq

Taught by Waleed Tariq, an NEC4 and FIDIC contract specialist on major infrastructure programmes, who has trained people in NEC4 across several countries.

About Waleed
Module 1 cover: How the ECC fits togetherModule 1 is free to try
14lessons
3 h 55 minof study
36quick checks
5stages in the course map

3 h 55 min in five stages

Minutes of study in each stage of the course map
  • Set up · 37 min
  • Day to day · 49 min
  • Change · 32 min
  • Money · 49 min
  • Finish · 66 min

What you will be able to do

Run an ECC contract with every clause number to hand

Set up the contract

Read the Contract Data and spot the entries that cause trouble later.

Keep every clock

Meet each time limit, from the first early warning to a reply on a quotation.

Deal with compensation events

Notify an event in time. Then quote it and see it implemented.

Get paid and close out

Assess each payment, then reach the final assessment on the right date.

Course map

Fourteen lessons in five stages

Take them in order or start with the stage you need. Module 1 is free to try.

1 · Set up37 min
01Free20 minHow the ECC fits together
0217 minBefore you sign: the Contract Data
2 · Day to day49 min
0317 minCommunications and the period for reply
0417 minEarly warnings
0515 minThe programme
3 · Change32 min
0616 minCompensation events: what they are and how to notify them
0716 minCompensation events: quotations, assessment and implementation
4 · Money49 min
0816 minPayment
0916 minDefined Cost, the Schedule of Cost Components and Disallowed Cost
1017 minTarget contracts: Options C and D
5 · Finish66 min
1117 minCompletion, take over and Defects
1215 minThe final assessment and closing out
1317 minDisputes: W1, W2 and W3
1417 minThe ECS: what changes in a subcontract

On the project

Every lesson follows one invented project

The Aldermere Flood Relief Scheme is an Option C job. Its dates keep to the contract's time limits.

ExhibitAldermere Flood Relief Scheme, January 2026 to May 2027
  1. 5 Jan 2026Contract Date
  2. 4 Mar 2026The programme is treated as accepted
  3. 5 May 2026CE007 accepted at £81,200 after one revision
  4. 29 Jun 2026The application is a day late. The payment is nil.
  5. 20 Jul 2026Dana assesses CE014 at £142,000 and 12 days
  6. 30 Oct 2026The Adjudicator decides £176,000 and 18 days
  7. 25 May 2027Completion Date, after CE007 and CE014

Time limits

Six clocks you will learn to keep

Each clock has its own clause. The lessons work each one through on the Aldermere dates.

ContractorProject ManagerClient
012345678weeks

The payment period is three weeks unless the Contract Data states another period.

Inside the lessons

What a lesson looks like

A lesson screen with a chart of the Aldermere programme
Module 5. The Aldermere programme from January to March 2026, with every reply on one chart.
A lesson screen on CE007 and CE014
Module 7. CE007 is accepted after one revision. Dana assesses CE014 herself.
A quick check on early warnings
Quick checks. Two questions after each section, with the reason shown as soon as you answer.

Who it is for

Commercial and project teams working under the ECC

For anyone who runs an ECC contract day to day, on the commercial side or the project side. It also suits people moving to NEC4 from another form.

Clause references are to the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract, June 2017 with amendments January 2023. Independent material. It is not published or endorsed by NEC. The project and the people are invented.