Note
20/1/2023: Various forms of Senior Representative added.
8/8/2022: General updating.
18/7/2022: Created.
Identified Terms (terms identified in the Contract Data and shown in italics)
- access date
- access dates
- activity schedule
- additional conditions of contract
- Adjudicator
- Adjudicator nominating body
- Adjudicator’s
- arbitration procedure
- assessment interval
- beneficiaries
- beneficiary
- bill of quantities
- boundary of the site
- Client
- Client’s
- completion date
- completion dates
- condition
- conditions of contract
- Contractor
- Contractor’s
- Contractor’s share percentages
- Cost Manager
- Cost Manager’s
- currency of the contract
- defect correction period
- defects date
- defects dates
- delay damages
- Dispute Avoidance Board nominating body
- exchange rates
- fee percentage
- fee percentages
- incentive schedule
- information execution plan
- interest rate
- key date
- key dates
- key person
- key persons
- language of the contract
- law of the contract
- method of measurement
- named supplier
- named suppliers
- people rates
- period for reply
- project bank
- Project Manager
- Project Manager’s
- Promoter
- Promoter’s objective
- retention free
- retention percentage
- section
- section’s
- sections
- sections’
- Senior Representative
- Senior Representative's
- Senior Representatives
- Senior Representatives’
- share ranges
- starting date
- Subcontractor undertaking to Others
- Subcontractor undertaking to the Client
- Supervisor
- Supervisor’s
- tribunal
- undertaking to Others
- value engineering percentage
- weather data
- weather measurements
- working areas
- works
(various forms of Senior Representative added, 21/1/2023)
Defined Terms (have capital initials)
- Accepted Programme
- Activity Schedule
- Authorisation
- Base Date Index
- Bill of Quantities
- Budget
- Completion
- Completion Date
- Contract Data
- Contract Date
- Core Group
- Core Group Members
- Corrupt Act
- Defect
- Defects
- Defects Certificate
- Defined Cost
- Disallowed Cost
- Dispute Avoidance Board
- Early Warning Register
- Equipment
- Fee
- Insurance Table
- Joining Deed
- Key Date
- Key Performance Indicator
- Latest Index
- Materials
- Named Suppliers
- Others
- Own Contract
- Parties
- Partnering Information
- Partners
- People Rates
- Plant
- Price Adjustment Factor
- Price for Work Done to Date
- Prices
- Pricing Information
- Project Cost
- Provide the Works
- Schedule of Partners
- Scope
- Short Schedule of Cost Components
- Site
- Site Information
- Specialist Subcontractor
- Stage One
- Stage Two
- Subcontractor
- Supplier
- Total of the Prices
- Trust Deed
- Working Areas
Terms to be converted from GCC or SMM4 to NEC4
| GCC or SMM4 | NEC4 |
|---|---|
| Architect (as Supervising Officer) | Project Manager |
| Bill of Quantities | bill of quantities |
| Bills of Quantities | bill of quantities |
| claim for additional payment | notification of compensation event |
| claim for extension of time | notification of compensation event |
| claim for extension of time and/or additional payment | notification of compensation event |
| Conditions of Contract | conditions of contract |
| condition (working condition) | condition |
| Cost (in GCC) | |
| date for commencement of the Contract | Contract Date |
| date for commencement of the Works | starting date |
| date for possession of the Site | access date |
| date of acceptance of the Tender | Contract Date |
| date of the award of the Contract | Contract Date |
| date of the letter of acceptance | Contract Date |
| Defects Liability Period | The period between Completion and the defects date |
| Employer | Client (Employer in NEC3) |
| equipment (for incorporation into the Works) | Plant |
| expiry of the Maintenance Period | defects date |
| extension of time | change to the Completion Date |
| Final Contract Sum | final total of the Prices |
| GCC Clause 16 Programme | Accepted Programme |
| Period of Maintenance | The period between Completion and the defects date |
| plant (construction plant) | Equipment |
| Price Fluctuation Factor | Price Adjustment Factor |
| Schedule of Rates | bill of quantities |
| Supervising Officer | Project Manager |
| Supervising Officer's Representative | Supervisor |
| Surveyor (Quantity Surveyor) | Cost Manager |
| the Contractor | the Contractor |
| the date for completion of the Works | completion date |
| the extended date for completion of the Works | Completion Date |
| the Main Contract | the contract |
| the Works | the works |
(conversions from Architect, Employer, Supervising Officer, Supervising Officer's Representative, Surveyor and Contractor added, 8/8/2022)
A global search and replace action may cause errors with these terms
Terms which are used both as identified terms and defined terms
- activity schedule vs Activity Schedule
- bill of quantities vs Bill of Quantities
- completion date vs Completion Date
- key date vs Key Date
- named suppliers vs Named Suppliers
- Dispute Avoidance Board Nominating Body vs Dispute Avoidance Board
- people rates vs People Rates
- working areas vs Working Areas
Previous terms which may mix up with or form part of other expressions
- Architect as in Architectural Services Department
- Contractor as in Sub-contractor
- condition
- cost
- section
- Surveyor
- tribunal
- works
- (Adding "the " before the word or a space at the end may help in some cases.)
(added, 8/8/2022)
Identified terms which may mix up with or form part of other expressions
- (when changing to italics)
- contract
- Contractor
- condition
- section
- tribunal
- works
(note in brackets and Contractor added, 8/8/2022)
Defined terms which may mix up with or form part of other expressions
- (when capitalising the first letter)
- Authorisation
- Budget
- Completion
- Defect
- Defects
- Equipment
- Fee
- Materials
- Others
- Parties
- Plant
- Prices
- Scope
- Site
- Supplier
(note in brackets added, 8/8/2022)