Webinar: Guidance on using NEC with FAC-1
Join Peter Higgins and Professor David Mosey as they discuss using NEC with a FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract.
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Time: 11am (BST)
Length: 1 hour
The FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract creates and implements collaborative framework and alliance arrangements and is recommended by the UK Government.
New guidance on how to implement NEC4 under the FAC-1 is now available. This document offers specific guidance on how to optimise the integration of FAC-1 and NEC4.
The purpose of the webinar is to:
- To assist users in combining the FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract with NEC4 contracts, and show how clauses in NEC4 contracts can be used to support the objectives of FAC-1
- To identify and provide guidance on material that needs to be incorporated in preparing the FAC-1 for use with an NEC4 contract and its management afterwards
- To show FAC-1 and NEC4 complement each other and to explain their combined strengths
- To provide case studies showing how strategic FAC-1 collaboration in conjunction with NEC contracts can lead to better programme and project outcomes
Event Speakers
David Mosey, Professor of Law, Kings College London
Professor David Mosey CBE PhD leads procurement research at the King's College London Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution where he was Director from 2013 to 2020. David was formerly head of Projects and Construction at law firm Trowers & Hamlins from 1991 to 2013.
David was appointed by the UK Government in 2021 to lead an “Independent Review of Public Sector Construction Frameworks” His recommendations for improving value, improving safety, managing risk and achieving net zero carbon are set out in “Constructing the Gold Standard” and were endorsed by Government and industry in the 2022 “Construction Playbook”.
David co-authored "Guidance on Collaborative Procurement for Design and Construction to Support Building Safety" to demonstrate how collaborative systems such as balanced evaluation, early supply chain involvement, multi-party contracts and BIM are essential to avoid another Grenfell Tower disaster. This guidance is being used by the new Building Safety Regulator as a measure of compliance.
David received the 2021 TECSA Clare Edwards Award for “professional excellence and an outstanding contribution to the legal profession serving the construction and infrastructure industry”. He is principal author of the “FAC-1” framework alliance contract, adopted on procurements worth over £100 billion, and he was awarded a CBE in the 2023 New Year Honours List for “services to the construction industry”.
Peter Higgins, Chair, NEC4 Contract Board
Peter Higgins is a director of pdConsult. Before starting pdConsult in 2000, he was responsible for the worldwide civil engineering work of a major UK consultancy. He has a background in civil engineering, building and landscape.
Peter Higgins was Chairman of the New Engineering Contract NEC Panel for the Institution of Civil Engineers and now chairs the NEC4 Contract Board. He has been involved in the development and implementation of NEC contracts since the initial preparation of these contract forms, and has provided advice and training to many contract users.
Peter was a council member and subsequently was awarded honorary membership of the Society of Construction Law, and has served as a branch chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and as chairman of the ICE Dispute Resolution Panel.