Changing Course: Navigating Variations Under JCT and NEC Contracts
21 May 2025
Insight Hub
27 February 2025
In this article, we summarise some important considerations when negotiating standard form construction contracts based on lessons from two recent cases from the Technology and Construction Court (TCC): Workman Properties Ltd v Adi Building And Refurbishment Ltd [2024] EWHC 2627 (TCC) (Workman v Adi); Workman v Adi concerned a dispute regarding design responsibility under an…
Read more23 October 2024
Various different NEC payment mechanisms are used across the construction industry and all standard forms of construction contract include different payment mechanism options. The three most commonly used payment mechanisms are fixed price, target price, and cost reimbursable, and there is a myriad of variants of each of these mechanisms. The NEC suite of contracts…
Read more12 August 2022
Following the publication of a consultative draft in April 2022 (as previously reported in our blog), the New Engineering Contract (NEC) published on 26 July 2022 the secondary Option X29 (Climate Change) clause that can be incorporated across the suite of NEC4 main contract and main subcontract forms ranging from the Design and Build Contract…
Read more25 May 2022
Decarbonising the UK’s townscapes We have all heard and used the phrase ‘paint the town red’ to describe going out to have a good time. However, when it comes to climate change, the party is over. Change is urgently needed in our towns and cities to make the landscape greener. We work with the public…
Read more25 May 2022
The environmental impact of construction is an enormous challenge on the road to Net Zero: indeed, the Built Environment contributes around 40% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions worldwide. The traditional view of many in the construction industry has been that environmental considerations are an issue best addressed in the scope or specification of a construction contract,…
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