... on the site, which had to be demolished during construction of the new West Island line. Client MTR trialled the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract for the £64 million second phase of the pool to see how it compared with the conventionally procured first phase. This paper describes the tendering, team...

... the Institution of Civil Engineers’ NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract for the project. This paper describes the scope of the work, how an appropriate contract strategy was chosen and how NEC3 facilitated effective risk management during construction. It concludes with a recommendation that NEC3 brings...

...Mike Attridge, MRICS; Harpal Tamber, BCom MCIPS This paper describes the procurement and contracting strategies adopted for the majority of section 2 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, now renamed High Speed 1, plus Eurostar's new depot at Temple Mills and the fit-out works at Stratford and Ebbsfleet...

..., which received specialised treatment, allowing clean water to be returned to the canal. Structural repair methods included over 4000 rock bolts, construction of new concrete arches and the use of sprayed concrete. contracting risk waterways & canals When Queen Victoria opened the Great...

...Virginia Stovin; Stephen Eccles; Michael O'Reilly The inherent risks of civil engineering projects mean the choice of contract can have a significant impact on cost and duration. In the absence of any quantitative comparisons, the decision tends to be based on qualitative criteria or personal...

... of the project, requiring complex tunnelling and bridging works in a busy urban environment. This paper provides a brief overview of contract 430, which—thanks partly to an innovative working relationship between the contracting and project management teams—was completed on schedule despite one of the wettest...

...Alasdair Cathcart The £5·2 billion Channel Tunnel Rail Link is the largest project to date to adopt the popular partnering-based NEC Engineering & Construction Contract. This paper describes the strategy behind adopting a partnering approach and the detailed processes and behaviours that were...

...Dan Keeling Like any major project, quality management is at the core of the £5.2 billion Channel Tunnel Rail Link project. It operates at various levels, from the individual civil design and construction contracts to the design, commissioning and operation of the whole transport system. This paper...

... of the superstructure and drive system. This it did, and the team was in place. To complete the project on a design-and-build basis through a construction management form of contract (Fig. 2). Fig. 2. Project organisation The project was truly European with major components coming from six countries...

... this period—from the contracts used by John Smeaton in the mid 18th century to the establishment of today's ‘traditional’ system around 1860. It reveals that many supposedly recent innovations—such as joint ventures, partnering and co-located project teams—have all been done before. What early civil engineers...

...Martin Barnes, PhD, BSc, CIMgt, FCIOB, FICE, FREng Civil engineering management in the next century will be dramatically different from the last, thanks to a growing and long-overdue realization that the traditional forms of contract—virtually unchanged since the 1860s—have had their day.This paper...

...M BARNES; NEC © Thomas Telford and ICE 1994 CONTRACTS ENGINEERING NEW NEC CONTRACTING PROJECTS MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONS SERVICES COMPULSORY COMPETITIVE TENDERING CCT The New Engineering Contract= a promising start Martin Banes, chairman of the ICE panel for theNew Engineering...

...G P NASH; R MCGILL; J O CALLAGHAN; ICHEME © Thomas Telford and ICE 1994 THAMES WATER UTILITIES E C HARRIS INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS ICHEME J MURPHY WATER RINGS MAINS RING PROCUREMENT STRATEGIES CONTRACTS MANAGEMENT CONTRACTORS COSTS CONTROL METHODS...

...A N BALDWIN; S A OTEIFA © Thomas Telford and ICE 1993 CONTRACTS DOCUMENTATION ESTIMATORS ESTIMATING DECISIONS MAKING CONTRACTORS TENDERS CONTRACTING TENDERING 54 z .I BRIEFING discontinued or carried out by the preparation of the present an initial stage, the harmo- some...