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Video: NEC3: an architect's guide

This programme has been made to tie in with a new book Guide to NEC3 by Frances Forward, which explains NEC3 from the architect's perspective.

Increasingly architects are being required to get to grips with NEC3. This programme aims to explain the basic structure and ethos of NEC3 along with examples and explanations of areas of the contract that may be new ground for architects and designers.

Key learning

An overview of NEC3
An explanation of its three-tier structure
The role of the works programme as a contractual document
An introduction to the role of ‘supervisor’
Works information, acceleration clauses and many more terms and definitions.

About the contributor(s)

Frances Forward is author of the recently published Guide to NEC3. As well as being a NEC3 expert, Frances - an architect - also runs her own architecture practice, Southampton-based Haus.