Learn NEC4 and FIDIC with me, one short lesson at a time.
I'm Waleed Tariq. I have trained people in NEC4 across several countries, and the same questions come up everywhere.
Is this a compensation event? Which notice do I send, and by when?
I built this academy to answer those questions properly. Each course follows one invented project, so every rule is tied to a real decision.
Module 1 of every course is free. You need no account and no card.
Waleed TariqNEC4 and FIDIC contract specialistRead my story
What a lesson looks like
Every lesson takes about five minutes and follows the same steps. These screens are from the first lesson of the Practitioner Course, which is free.
Answer two questions and I will suggest a path through the lessons.
Step 1 of 2
Skip, I will choose my own lessonsWhere are you starting from?
We use this to set your path. You can change it at any time.
Which side of the contract are you on?
Some lessons matter more on one side than the other.
Your path
NEC4 first steps
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- What makes up the contract5 min
- Who is who5 min
- Reading and changing the words5 min
- Acceptance and instructions5 min
NEC Case Law, Clause by Clause
- The ground rules5 min
- Reading the words6 min
- Changing the contract6 min
- The whole agreement6 min
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- When a communication counts6 min
- The period for reply5 min
- When a submission is not accepted6 min
- When a reply is late6 min
- What to warn of, and how6 min
- The register and the meetings6 min
- What a missed warning costs6 min
- Designs wait for acceptance5 min
- Key people and Subcontractors5 min
- Duties beside the work5 min
- What a programme must show5 min
- Reply, refusal and silence5 min
- Keeping it current5 min
- What counts as a compensation event5 min
- Testing an event against the contract5 min
- Notifying within eight weeks5 min
- The reply and what silence means5 min
- Quotations and the reply5 min
- Building the change to the Prices5 min
- Delay, and when Dana assesses5 min
- Proposed instructions and implementation5 min
- Assessment dates and applications5 min
- Building the amount due5 min
- Certificates, payment and interest5 min
- Completion, Key Dates and take over5 min
- Delay damages and quality5 min
- Correcting Defects and the Defects Certificate6 min
- Choosing the Option and starting a dispute5 min
- From the Adjudicator to the tribunal5 min
- What W2 and W3 change5 min
It starts with What makes up the contract. The first lessons are free. You need no account and no card.
Your path
Running an ECC contract
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- What makes up the contract5 min
- Who is who5 min
- Reading and changing the words5 min
- Acceptance and instructions5 min
NEC Case Law, Clause by Clause
- Notices that take effect6 min
- Which address counts6 min
- A fair Project Manager6 min
- Replies, acceptance and delegation6 min
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- When a communication counts6 min
- The period for reply5 min
- When a submission is not accepted6 min
- When a reply is late6 min
- What to warn of, and how6 min
- The register and the meetings6 min
- What a missed warning costs6 min
- What a programme must show5 min
- Reply, refusal and silence5 min
- Keeping it current5 min
Is it a valid compensation event?
- What a compensation event is5 min
- What the Scope is and who changes it6 min
- Test the instruction against the Scope6 min
- Drafting that starts the argument6 min
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- What counts as a compensation event5 min
- Testing an event against the contract5 min
- Notifying within eight weeks5 min
- The reply and what silence means5 min
Is it a valid compensation event?
- Reply to a notification in one week6 min
- Price a change before you decide it6 min
- When the reply is silent or wrong6 min
- Run the full test on the case clinic7 min
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- Quotations and the reply5 min
- Building the change to the Prices5 min
- Delay, and when Dana assesses5 min
- Proposed instructions and implementation5 min
NEC4 Payment and Defined Cost Masterclass
- Assessment dates and the application6 min
- A late application and the 50.4 cap5 min
- Certificates, payment and late payment6 min
- Corrections and interest6 min
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- Defined Cost and the Fee5 min
- The Schedule of Cost Components5 min
- Disallowed Cost5 min
- Completion, Key Dates and take over5 min
- Delay damages and quality5 min
- Correcting Defects and the Defects Certificate6 min
- When the final assessment is due5 min
- When the assessment becomes conclusive6 min
- Building the final amount due5 min
It starts with What makes up the contract. The first lessons are free. You need no account and no card.
Your path
Compensation events and payment
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- What makes up the contract5 min
- Who is who5 min
- Reading and changing the words5 min
- Acceptance and instructions5 min
Is it a valid compensation event?
- What a compensation event is5 min
- What the Scope is and who changes it6 min
- Test the instruction against the Scope6 min
- Drafting that starts the argument6 min
- Read the words, not the label5 min
- What the Supervisor can instruct5 min
- Notify the change yourself6 min
- Spot the clash and notify it5 min
- From the statement to the compensation event6 min
- Who gets the benefit of the doubt6 min
- The two exclusions6 min
- The Contractor's design6 min
- Proposals and savings6 min
- Who notifies, and the eight-week bar6 min
- Physical conditions and weather7 min
- Late replies and withheld acceptances6 min
- The Client, Others and the last resorts7 min
- Reply to a notification in one week6 min
- Price a change before you decide it6 min
- When the reply is silent or wrong6 min
- Run the full test on the case clinic7 min
NEC Case Law, Clause by Clause
- What counts, and who notifies6 min
- Will a court enforce the time bar?5 min
- Replies, silence and the last date5 min
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- Quotations and the reply5 min
- Building the change to the Prices5 min
- Delay, and when Dana assesses5 min
- Proposed instructions and implementation5 min
NEC4 Payment and Defined Cost Masterclass
- The money map7 min
- Six ways to value work5 min
- What counts as Defined Cost6 min
- Why Option C is not cost-plus6 min
- Defined Cost is a list6 min
- The price tests in clause 52.16 min
- What the Fee carries6 min
- Sorting one application6 min
- Pricing with the Short Schedule6 min
- The dividing date and risk allowances6 min
- Building a quotation: CE0076 min
- Test a cost against the list5 min
- Grounds that turn on cause6 min
- Grounds that turn on the kind of cost6 min
- What Disallowed Cost really costs6 min
- Keep the records and test a sample5 min
- Correct a certificate and carry the proof6 min
- Close off a part under clause 50.96 min
- Test each audit finding against its evidence6 min
It starts with What makes up the contract. The first lessons are free. You need no account and no card.
Your path
From FIDIC to NEC4
NEC4 vs FIDIC 2017
- How the two contracts are built6 min
- Who does what7 min
- Communications that count7 min
- When documents conflict7 min
- How work starts5 min
- What the programme must show5 min
- When the reply is silence5 min
- What the programme does5 min
- Applying for payment6 min
- Certificates and payment dates6 min
- Money held back6 min
- When payment is late6 min
- Who warns, and of what5 min
- Registers and meetings6 min
- A warning is not a notice5 min
- The price of not warning6 min
- Two tests for the ground5 min
- Notices and time bars5 min
- From notice to decision5 min
- When nobody decides5 min
- Who can change the work5 min
- From instruction to decision5 min
- Instructions that do not say so5 min
- Pricing first and your own ideas5 min
- How the ECC values a change5 min
- Bill rates and new rates5 min
- Cost or Cost Plus Profit5 min
- Weather and new laws5 min
- What adds time5 min
- Measuring delay and speeding up5 min
- Delay damages5 min
- Getting delay damages paid5 min
- Who counts as a Subcontractor5 min
- Getting a Subcontractor approved5 min
- Security for the employing Party5 min
- Advance payment5 min
- Who designs and how a design is cleared5 min
- Tests, searches and failed work5 min
- Quality systems and Tests on Completion5 min
- Who carries the risk5 min
- Claims from others and limits of liability5 min
- Insurance and when care passes5 min
- Completion and taking over5 min
- Defects and the closing certificate5 min
- Retention and the final payment5 min
- When the final figure is fixed5 min
- Terminating for default5 min
- Convenience and what each Party is paid5 min
- Prevention and Exceptional Events5 min
- Ending the contract after a long stoppage5 min
- Who decides and when a dispute starts5 min
- The first step and the referral5 min
- What a decision does and how to challenge it5 min
- Missed limits and the Aldermere result5 min
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
- What to warn of, and how6 min
- The register and the meetings6 min
- What a missed warning costs6 min
It starts with How the two contracts are built. The first lessons are free. You need no account and no card.
Your path
Preparing an NEC4 contract
NEC4 Contract Preparation
- What makes up an ECC5 min
- Italics and capitals5 min
- Sections and compensation events6 min
- The NEC4 family and the short forms5 min
- Subcontractor or supplier6 min
- Services, supply and other forms5 min
- Drawing the contract map7 min
- Design and scope6 min
- The risk the Client keeps5 min
- Bringing a contractor in early5 min
- Packaging and the timescale6 min
- Priced Options A and B5 min
- Target Options C and D5 min
- Options E and F, and choosing yours5 min
- Share, cost checks, PSC and TSC6 min
- Does the Construction Act apply?5 min
- W1, W2 or W35 min
- The Y(UK) Options5 min
- The dispute entries5 min
- The Schedule and inflation6 min
- Delay damages6 min
- Retention and the other Options6 min
- Z clauses6 min
- The clocks in part one6 min
- Key Dates, take over and Defects5 min
- Weather, money and insurance5 min
- Part two and changes after the Contract Date6 min
- What the Scope does5 min
- Drafting requirements and constraints5 min
- Site Information and what the Contractor is taken to know5 min
- The Contractor's design6 min
- What goes out and what comes back5 min
- Queries, addenda and clarification5 min
- Clashes and where choices land5 min
- Setting the scoring method5 min
- Testing the fee and the rates5 min
- Checking the target and the programme5 min
- Subcontract forms and what to pass down6 min
- Sorting the risk in part one5 min
- Building the fee and the rates6 min
- Settling the design statement5 min
- The tender programme5 min
- The designer and the maintenance contract6 min
- Frameworks and the Others on Site6 min
- Handing over to maintenance6 min
- Your strategy on one page6 min
NEC Case Law, Clause by Clause
- Spot the clash, then price it6 min
- Read the documents together5 min
- A clarification can still be a change5 min
- Rankings and the Contractor's Scope5 min
It starts with What makes up an ECC. The first lessons are free. You need no account and no card.
The courses
All six follow the same invented project, so what you learn in one carries into the next. There are 291 short lessons in all. Finish a course and you get a certificate that anyone can check online.
Foundation level, 19 modules
NEC4 ECC Practitioner Course
Every part of the ECC, shown on one Option C job.
Intermediate level, 15 modules
NEC4 Payment and Defined Cost Masterclass
How the ECC pays, and how to check every amount.
Advanced level, 17 modules
NEC Case Law, Clause by Clause
What the courts have decided, taken clause by clause through the ECC.
Intermediate level, 14 modules
NEC4 vs FIDIC 2017
The ECC and the Red Book side by side, on the same scheme.
Intermediate level, 12 modules
NEC4 Contract Preparation
Build your own contract strategy while Aldermere Water chooses its contracts.
Intermediate level, 6 modules
Is it a valid compensation event?
Test any instruction against the Scope, whatever its label says.
The Toolkit
Six workbooks and three packs of notice letters. The workbooks work out the dates. You enter what happened. It comes with the membership.
See the ToolkitEvery course and the Toolkit for $25 a month.
See pricingQuestions
Can I try it first?
Yes. Module 1 of every course is free. You need no account and no card. A free account saves your progress.
Can I cancel at any time?
Yes. Cancel online from your account. You keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
Are new lessons included?
Yes. Every new lesson and course is included while you are a member.
Can my company pay?
Yes. Buy team seats, or pay for one person. Add your VAT number at checkout and the invoice is made out to your company.
Try a lesson before you decide.
Module 1 of every course is free. You need no account and no card.