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NEC’s secondary option X29, climate change: NEC to save the world?

Event organised by ICE

Date
15 July 2025
Time

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Overview

In 2017 Mott MacDonald's NEC and procurement specialist, Richard Patterson was part of the 4-person team that drafted NEC's new secondary option X29, Climate change.

This is available for all but the short NEC contracts. In the ECC it:

  • Prompts the Client to include 'Climate Change Requirements' in the Scope and
  • allows the contract to include a 'Performance Table' in which to set or ask bidders to offer targets for anything.

Those targets could be for climate related issues or even for 'social value' issues.

The Client may include bonuses for beating and/or damages for not meeting those targets. This session will explain the details.

Speaker

Richard Patterson

Richard Patterson

Mott MacDonald

NEC and procurement specialist

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Richard Patterson

Richard is a chartered civil engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) and procurement and NEC specialist. He has been with global development, engineering and management consultant, Mott MacDonald for 36 years.

Richard was part of the drafting team for NEC4, part of the ICE’s working group on procurement, contracts and carbon/net zero and was one of the four-person team that developed NEC’s recently released secondary option X29, Climate change.

Richard leads on NEC for Mott MacDonald and delivers in-house and client training and training for NEC Training, including their 4-day ECC Project Manager accreditation course. 

Richard is very keen on getting NEC used more widely and has given NEC training in Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Ethiopia, France. Germany, Hong Kong. Ireland, New Zealand, Qatar, Peru, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka and the USA.

Richard has contributed to two NEC books, had 7 NEC papers published in ICE’s Proceedings and sat on the Editorial Advisory Panel of the ICE’s journal, Management, Procurement and Law.  He is also a frequent contributor to the NEC website and newsletter (67 articles at the last count and eight in 2023!).