Webinars

NEC4 Webinars & Site Diary Tutorials for Construction Commercial Teams

Practical training on NEC4 contracts and site record management from the people who wrote the rules.
Our webinars feature Ben Walker (NEC4 drafter and CEMAR founder) alongside experts from CECA and GMH Planning, covering everything from compensation events to early warnings.
Plus step by step tutorials showing how to get the most from Gather on your projects

NEC4

October 1, 2026

61 minutes

NEC4: Managing Effectively - Top Tips

Fourteen practical tips for managing an NEC4 ECC contract, drawn from episodes 1 to 11: contract language, written communications, timescales, early warnings, value engineering, the programme, applications for payment and assessing compensation events.

NEC4

September 7, 2026

62 minutes

NEC4 Clause 13: Communicating Correctly

A discussion of NEC4 ECC communications: the required form, the system specified in the Scope, reply periods, separate notifications and reasons for withholding acceptance.

Gather Explained

September 4, 2026

2 minutes

How to Complete a Shift Record in Gather

How to complete a shift record in Gather on site, in six steps: shift details, access, resources, work log, comments and allocation. Works offline, and submitting locks the record for review.

Gather Explained

September 4, 2026

3 minutes

How to Use AWS Rekognition to Make Sense of Construction Site Photos

Gather runs every site photo through AWS Rekognition so it is tagged with what it shows. Search for 'excavation' or 'pipework' and find the photo, not the date it was taken.

Gather Explained

September 4, 2026

3 minutes

How to Use the Gather Gallery to Make Sense of Your Construction Photos

Every photo taken in Gather is timestamped, located and attached to a shift record. The Gallery brings them together so you can find the one photo that matters, months later.

Gather Explained

September 4, 2026

1 minute

Construction Weather Data, Linked to Every Shift Record

Gather links contractual and on-site weather to every shift record automatically, hourly, at every location. Conditions sit beside output, and the QS AI agent answers the commercial question: productive hours lost.

Gather Explained

September 4, 2026

1 minute

Project Documents in Gather: Organise Files with Folders

Drawings, method statements, permits and briefings build up fast. Folders in Gather let you group project documents your way, with status and signing progress still visible.

NEC4

June 8, 2026

58 minutes

NEC4: Contractor's Value Engineering Proposals

Ben Walker, Glenn Hide and David Allen discuss contractor proposals under NEC4 ECC clause 16 and whole-life cost proposals under Option X21. The session explores the different pricing and sharing arrangements and the importance of recording the proposal and instructed change.

NEC4

May 5, 2026

60 minutes

NEC4 Disallowed Cost Explained

Ben Walker and Glenn Hide discuss Disallowed cost under NEC4 ECC Options C, D and E, with a separate discussion of Option F. The session covers the contractual grounds for exclusion, payment assessment and supporting records. Read its thematic groupings alongside the ten bullets at clause 11.2(26); Option F uses a separate definition.

NEC4

March 30, 2026

45 minutes

NEC4 Understanding the Activity Schedule

A discussion of activity schedules under NEC4 ECC Options A and C. The session distinguishes Option A payment for completed activities from Option C cost-based payment, and explores revisions and implemented compensation events.

NEC4

March 2, 2026

55 minutes

The Role of Contract Data

Ben Walker and Glenn Hide discuss Contract Data Parts One and Two, project-specific entries and the relationship with the conditions of contract. The session includes a demonstration of NEC Digital by Iain Jeffries.

NEC4

February 2, 2026

50 minutes

NEC4: How to approach Option Z / amendments

A discussion of additional conditions under Option Z: why an amendment may be proposed, how it interacts with the rest of the contract and how to explain the intended risk allocation to bidders.

NEC4

January 5, 2026

65 minutes

NEC4: Programme - Getting it working for you

Glenn Hide and Ben Walker discuss programme submission, acceptance, updates and compensation event assessment under NEC4 ECC. The session also explores time risk allowances and the evidence supporting realistic programme updates.

NEC4

December 1, 2025

60 minutes

NEC4: Assessing compensation events part 2 - Price

Ben Walker and Glenn Hide discuss how NEC4 ECC compensation events affect Defined Cost and the resulting change to the Prices. The session explores the dividing date, the applicable cost components, Fee and agreed assessment approaches.

NEC4

November 3, 2025

65 minutes

NEC4: Assessing Compensation Events Part 1 - Time

A discussion of programme evidence and time assessment for NEC4 ECC compensation events. Topics include the dividing date, progress records, planned Completion and the Project Manager’s assessment where clause 64 applies.

NEC4

October 7, 2025

65 minutes

NEC4: Notifying compensation events and instructing quotations

A discussion of NEC4 ECC compensation event notifications and quotation instructions, including the responsibilities of the Contractor and Project Manager, the eight-week time bar and stated assumptions.

NEC Contract Early Warnings: A Positive Approach to Project Management

NEC4

September 8, 2025

60 minutes

NEC Contract Early Warnings: A Positive Approach to Project Management

A discussion of NEC4 ECC early warnings, the Early Warning Register and early warning meetings. The session explores prompt notification, practical actions and the distinction between early warnings and compensation event notifications.

NEC4

July 8, 2025

30 minutes

NEC4 - Taming Commercial Chaos | NEC People Conference 2025 London

Ben Walker’s NEC People Conference presentation explores how contract knowledge, team behaviour and consistent administration support NEC project management, including the role of structured site records.

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Gather Explained

April 30, 2025

2 minutes

What Is CEMAR? Beginner Guide to NEC Contract Software [2026]

Learn how to seamlessly integrate Gather with CEMAR/Thinkproject contract management system, linking shift records to compensation events via API.

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Gather Explained

June 13, 2024

3 minutes

How to Align Your Site Diary with Your Contract

Learn how to better categorise project delivery variances in Gather RMS. Link them to NEC contracts, track early warnings and analyse trends.

Ben Walker: Decoding NEC Contracts and the Value of Site Records

NEC4

March 18, 2024

57 minutes

Ben Walker: Decoding NEC Contracts and the Value of Site Records

Ben Walker discusses the role of contemporaneous records in NEC contract administration, including cost substantiation, programme reviews and the practical uses of structured site information.

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Gather Explained

March 1, 2024

15 minutes

Simplify Construction Blockade Reporting with Consistent, Structured Site Records

Learn how to streamline blockade reporting on Gather RMS with this step-by-step guide. Plan shifts, record activities, and get real-time insights. It's easy.

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Gather Explained

February 20, 2024

8 minutes

Prepopulate 64% of Your Shift Records on Gather

Plan a week of shifts in under 10 minutes. Prepopulate labour, plant, activities and access so your field teams only need to fill in what actually happened.

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Gather Explained

February 14, 2024

3 minutes

Capture Individual Resource Times on Gather

Discover Gather's new resource time feature, enabling precise tracking of individual work hours and automated fatigue monitoring for safer shift planning.

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Gather Explained

February 12, 2024

3 minutes

Real Time Construction Planned versus Actual Reporting

Track planned versus actual costs and hours in real time using site diary data. See where you're winning, where you're losing, and act before it's too late.

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Gather Explained

February 7, 2024

2 minutes

Tagging Shift Records for Commercial Assurance

Learn how Gather's tagging system helps track weather delays and other project changes, making it easier to analyse impacts and generate detailed reports.

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Gather Explained

January 17, 2024

2 minutes

Gather: The New Name For Raildiary

Watch Raildiary transform into Gather. Our mission: curb the £1.5 trillion cost of bad data in construction through better site data capture across sectors.