Improving Your ESG Performance Though NEC4 Contracts

Mr Robert GERRARD

Senior NEC Consultant and Secretary,NEC Users’ Group Accredited Mediator
Dispute Resolution Adviser Honorary Advisor to the Hong Kong Adjudication Centre Senior Certified Adjudicator at the International Dispute Resolution & Risk Management Institute

Abstract

This presentation will focus on the contractual considerations to assist companies in their journey to improve their Environmental, Social and Governance performance. We will address the use of pre-contract investigations of the supply chain and then the setting up of the contract to allow for targeting of e.g. environmental improvements with FM, reducing the impact of FM on climate change and reducing whole life cost in FM.

Biography

Robert specialises in NEC contracts, both setting these up and successfully managing them. He has over 39 years’ experience in contract management and carries out training and consultancy around the world. Robert is based in Hong Kong and works as a Senior Consultant for Thomas Telford Limited.

He is an examiner for the Institution of Civil Engineers Certificate in Law and Contract Management course and has also held the position of NEC Users’ Group Secretary from 2006 to date. Robert was an NEC4 Contract Drafter, part of the NEC3 contracts working group and an Accredited NEC4 ECC Project Manager.

Robert’s publications include NEC3 and NEC4 Compared (2017), NEC2 and NEC3 Compared (2005), joint author in NEC4 Avoiding and Resolving Disputes (2019), NEC4 Practical Solutions (2017) and NEC3 Practical Solutions (2015).