The world is going paperless, big data is building up and the internet of things is about to change our lives forever
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Agile methodology is a set of principles commonly used for software development in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organising, cross-functional teams.
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NEC doesn’t work without the right culture. There has to be transparency, cooperation and a willingness to follow the contract. To do so is not aggressive, it’s collaborative.
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Health and safety management has taken a step change in the last twenty years by focusing on “lead” indicators to identify trends informing proactive actions.
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“Option Z: The additional conditions of contract” is almost a footnote in the NEC contracts at the back of the secondary option clauses. So why does it often evolve into a document several times longer than the contract?
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During a lively debate at the NEC Users Group seminar someone asked why we were talking about collaboration when the contract only asks for “a spirit of mutual trust and cooperation”, what followed was a discussion on the difference between those two concepts.
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The modern project manager may not spend his time “managing” projects in the old sense of organising labour, plant and materials to build something.
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BIM stands for Building Information Modelling (or Model) which the US National Building Information Model Standard Project Committee define as – “A digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility… and a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle.”
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We can probably all recall an Employer (client) who at some time or other approached the delicate balance of delegating authority to Project Managers with either too much suffocating governance or not enough control to limit their risk exposure.
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It’s no secret that to achieve as a team we need to trust and cooperate with each other. In construction projects, trusting and collaborative environments are always the most productive, profitable and enjoyable ventures
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We are pleased to announce the launch of CEMAR’s new capability for administering FIDIC contracts. Director Ben Walker explains…
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A strategic revolution in integrated and interchangeable cloud solutions. It’s very tempting as a client to be drawn towards a one-stop-shop solution where a single application attempts to combine several functions within one tool – ‘the perfect solution’ – but we feel this is a myth.
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One of the central themes of NEC3 contracts, and a significant reason for their adoption across major infrastructure projects across the world, is the engaging and timely project management processes embedded throughout their procedures. However, it’s only words on a page if we don’t bring to life those processes and live up to the spirit in which they are written.
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Early warnings within the NEC3 contract are exactly that! They are not...
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