Everyone’s at it! NEC4 to join the growing list of new standard form contracts

The date of publication of the new NEC4 suite of contracts was announced recently as June 2017. Key changes will include a new Design Build and Operate Contract, a new Alliance Contract and a new approach to BIM.

This follows the recent publication of a number of updated standard forms of contract by a number of bodies including the ACE, JCT, IChemE and FIDIC.

Here we outline the key changes.