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Interactive course · NEC4 and FIDIC 2017

NEC4 vs FIDIC 2017

The ECC and the Red Book side by side, at the moments that matter.

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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: Two contracts, one schemeModule 1 is free to try
10lessons
3 h 5 minof study
30quick checks
5stages in the course map

3 h 5 min in five stages

Minutes of study in each stage of the course map
  • Setting up · 39 min
  • Warnings and claims · 41 min
  • Change · 37 min
  • Time and money · 36 min
  • Finishing · 34 min

What you will be able to do

Work under either contract and know where the two routes part

Match the roles

See who does each job under each contract, from the Project Manager to the Engineer.

Keep both sets of clocks

Notices and time bars differ. See each pair side by side.

Value change both ways

Price a compensation event and a Claim on the same facts.

Explain the differences

Brief a client or a team on where the two contracts part.

Course map

Ten lessons in five stages

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

1 · Setting up39 min
01Free20 minTwo contracts, one scheme
0219 minStarting out and the programme
2 · Warnings and claims41 min
0317 minEarly warning and advance warning
0424 minCompensation events and Claims
3 · Change37 min
0519 minChanging the work
0618 minValuing change
4 · Time and money36 min
0719 minExtending time and delay damages
0817 minGetting paid
5 · Finishing34 min
0917 minCompletion, defects and the final account
1017 minDisputes

On the project

The same scheme, let twice

The Aldermere Flood Relief Scheme is let under the ECC and under the Red Book. The same things happen on site under both.

84 days

The Red Book judges the ground at the Base Date, 84 days before the ECC's test date.

£81,200

The buried concrete adds this to the Prices under the ECC.

£76,500

The Red Book adds this to the Contract Price, because Sub-Clause 4.12.4 gives Cost with no profit.

6 weeks

A change to the embankment ends in two decisions on the same figures, six weeks apart.

Exhibit

Two contracts, two very different clocks

The time to give notice of a claim for more time or money. The course sets the two forms side by side at each moment like this one.

014284256days

From NEC4 vs FIDIC 2017, Module 4. The ECC counts eight weeks from when the Contractor becomes aware of the event.

Inside the lessons

What a lesson looks like

A lesson screen on delay damages under both contracts
Module 7. Aldermere Water recovers its delay damages under both forms. Only the Red Book makes it claim.
A lesson screen comparing the two ground condition tests
Module 4. The Red Book judges the ground 84 days before the ECC does.
A quick check on ground conditions
Quick checks. Two questions after each section, with the reason shown as soon as you answer.

Who it is for

People who know one form and now work under the other

For practitioners who know one of the two forms and now work under the other. It also suits anyone who has to explain the differences to a client or a team.

Red Book references follow the 2017 text as first published. The course says where to check the 2022 reprint.

Clause references are to the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract (June 2017 with amendments January 2023) and the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Construction, Second Edition 2017 as first published. Independent material. It is not published or endorsed by NEC or FIDIC. The project and the people are invented.