WALEED TARIQACADEMY
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Short course · NEC4 ECC

Is it a valid compensation event?

How to tell whether an instruction changes the Scope under the NEC4 ECC, and what the Project Manager's reply must say.

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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: Does the instruction change the Scope?Module 1 is free to try
4lessons
1 h 15 minof study
12quick checks
3stages in the course map

1 h 15 min in three stages

Minutes of study in each stage of the course map
  • Is it a change? · 38 min
  • Ambiguities · 17 min
  • Exclusions and replies · 18 min

What you will be able to do

Decide whether an event counts, and give the reason

Test the instruction

Check any instruction against the Scope, whatever its label says.

See through clarifications

Know why NEC has no clarifications, and what that means for a reply.

Resolve ambiguities

Use clause 63.10 when two documents in the Scope disagree.

Reply as the Project Manager

Give the right reason when an event is not a compensation event.

Course map

Four lessons in three stages

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

1 · Is it a change?38 min
01Free20 minDoes the instruction change the Scope?
0218 minThere are no clarifications
2 · Ambiguities17 min
0317 minAmbiguities and inconsistencies
3 · Exclusions and replies18 min
0418 minThe exclusions, the Contractor's design and the Project Manager's reply

On the project

Four events on the Aldermere scheme, and why each one counts or not

Every example happens on the invented Aldermere Flood Relief Scheme, with dates that follow the contract's time limits.

£26,085

A portal reply headed "Clarification: no change" turns out to be CE011.

63.10

A drawing and the specification disagree about the outfall pipe bedding. Clause 63.10 decides who gets the benefit of the doubt.

Not a CE

A thicker wet well base slab is not a compensation event, and the Project Manager's reply stands.

CE016

The Supervisor's guardrail direction becomes a compensation event only once the Project Manager instructs it.

Inside the lessons

What a lesson looks like

A lesson screen on CE012
Module 1. A school-hours instruction changes a constraint, so it becomes CE012 the same day.
A lesson screen on CE011
Module 2. The reply said no change, but its words added a seal, so it became CE011.
A quick check on the Scope
Quick checks. Two questions after each section, with the reason shown as soon as you answer.

Who it is for

People on NEC4 ECC contracts who deal with change

For commercial and project staff on NEC4 ECC contracts, on either side. It also suits cost consultants and auditors who check compensation events.

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.