In this episode Alastair Hamilton, Adrian Ceney, Nicola Gemmell and Mike Reader look at how best to manage timescales and provides tips for controlling change within a contract.

Drawing on their experience of working with NEC3 contracts, the team discuss the importance of collaboration and building trust between not only the project team, but also between the team and the client in order to effectively manage timescales, budgets and other changes.Delving into topics such as budgeting and risk management, the team share their opinions on current NEC thinking around these topics and deliberate the significance of transparency.The team also debate the issue of specialist sites, such as laboratories, and how project teams can avoid over-inflating prices and timescales by allocating risk assessment and management to specialist suppliers and how this can be communicated to the client.