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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
13:00 - 14:00 BST (GMT+1)
Location
Online
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NEC’s secondary option X29, climate change: NEC to save the world?

Date
15 July 2025
Time
13:00 - 14:00 BST (GMT+1)
Location
Online

Free

Book now

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 Patterson, NEC and procurement specialist at Mott MacDonald, is a chartered civil engineer and ICE Fellow who has been with the firm for 35-plus years.

He was a member of the drafting team for NEC4; the ICE’s working group on procurement, contracts and carbon/net zero; and the team that developed the recently released NEC secondary option, X29. This enables clients to include contractual targets incentivising contractors to provide lower-carbon solutions.

Keen for NEC to be used more widely, Patterson has trained people in its application in countries ranging from Australia and Ethiopia to Peru and the US.

He has contributed to two NEC books and served on the editorial advisory panel of the ICE’s Management, Procurement and Law journal. He is also a frequent contributor to the NEC’s website and newsletter.

For more information please contact:

Jessica McQuade

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