NEC3 - Terminal Float

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11 years 2 months

@Mike Testro just a quick one.  The NEC is expressly clear as the ownership of terminal float in the accepted programme.  This is not split between the Employer and the Contractor, it is owned in its enitrity by the Contractor i.e. any event which stops the Contractor completing the Works by the date shown in the Accepted Programme is a Compensation Event pursuant to 60.1 (19).

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19 years 10 months

Hi Bo

Terminal float - as I understand it - is the gap between programmed work completion and the contract completion date.

In the NEC form of contract ownership of this period is split between the Contractor and the Employer.

If nothing is stated in the contract then the Contractor is fully entitled to bridge the terminal float with a "Time Risk Contingency" task thus creating a critical path with a buffer for any of his own delays.

In a forensic EoT situation I would have no hesitation in putting such a buffer in the baseline programme.

Remember that the contractor has agreed to finish by the contract date - how he arranges that is up to him.

Best regards

Mike Testro

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12 years 1 month

Hi Bo,

Leave out the dummy activities.

Review any changes to the planned completion dates as they occur.

Cheers

Alan