Time is on its side

摘要

You either love it or hate it. And by and large the legal profession seems to hate it. We are talking of course about the new edition of the NEC. Let's examine one way in which this much maligned contract encourages collaborative working and transparent practices. Why is it that a contractor rarely, if ever, produces a target programme with terminal float? The answer is not difficult to find. If it produces a "transparent" programme, it runs the risk that the client will use the float for its own purposes.