NEC ACCREDITED | APMG PROJECT PLANNING AND CONTROL
NEC planning and project controls consultancy for UK contractors
Protect the margin you won the job on, from tender to completion, under NEC, JCT or FIDIC.
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Accurate, on time, and it gave our team and the client what they needed.
Charlie Brierton
Project Manager, Studley Engineering
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Their support has given us confidence in our programme and claims position, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
Roger Hills
Director and Contract Manager, JWA Shopfitting Solutions
Project planning and project controls services
Project planning services for contractors on NEC, JCT and FIDIC work, with programmes in Primavera P6, MS Project or Asta. Each service is scoped to the job, checked by an NEC Accredited Project Manager before issue and priced in writing before any chargeable work.
Logic-linked tender programmes and narratives written to the contract, solid enough to become the baseline after award.
Programme, interfaces and long-lead procurement set up between award and site start, so the team can run it from day one.
Programmes that show all nine items clause 31.2 requires, checked against the four reasons for non-acceptance in clause 31.3.
Programme updates, lookaheads, dashboards and reporting packs to an agreed cadence. Remote, hybrid or embedded.
An independent review, then logic, critical path and float rebuilt into a recovery programme the team can trust again.
Notifications, quotations and time impact assessments built on the Accepted Programme, with the equivalent under JCT and FIDIC.
NEC, JCT and FIDIC case studies
Each case study sets out the contract, the challenge and the outcome.
Where a programme makes or loses money
Four moments decide it.
Win the work
A credible tender programme helps win the bid and becomes a baseline you can deliver.
Protect the margin
Compensation events assessed on the programme, so the entitlement is defensible.
Keep control
A programme kept current every month, so delays show while there is still time to act.
Stand up under audit
A clean evidence trail at acceptance, in assessment and in dispute.
Applied in practice across the full lifecycle. Tender, baseline, live reporting, change control and recovery delivered on a £50M+ NEC3 gas infrastructure package, a £20M carbon capture facility, a £10M grain processing shutdown and a £5M chemical processing shutdown. See project case studies
Real project controls outputs
Anonymised extracts from live jobs. Full examples are shared privately during scoping, where confidentiality allows.
Obstacle tracker
Open obstacles with owners, target dates and the activities they hold up.
Four-week lookahead
The next four weeks from the live programme, by area and trade, for the site team.
Project controls programme report
The month's position: planned Completion, Key Dates, what moved them and what is needed from others.
Baseline programme
Logic-linked in P6, MS Project or Asta, with the critical path shown.
Live reporting dashboard
Progress, S-curves, variance commentary and management reporting.
Four ways to start
Most engagements start with a single deliverable, then move to a monthly cycle. Scope and fee are confirmed in writing before billing.
Programme review
Before you submit, accept or revise a programme.
Single deliverable
You need one output by a set date.
Monthly retainer
You need continuity through delivery without an in-house hire.
From £1,400 a month + VAT
Multi-project support
You run a framework or a portfolio and need planning capacity you can rely on.
A specialist NEC planning consultancy with senior review on every output
£750M+
Of projects planned, from a £1.5M shutdown to a £500M transmission project.
NEC4
Your programme reviewed by an NEC Accredited Project Manager, the way your PM will read it.
5,000
Activities in one P6 master programme, built and run from design to handover.
48 hrs
From the first call to a fixed fee in writing.
SOCIAL VALUE
Meet your jobs and skills commitment by hiring a permanent project planner.
From January 2027, central government tenders from £1m weight social value at 10 per cent or more, with jobs and skills at the centre. A permanent planning job is a commitment you can deliver and prove.
A University of Birmingham policy report, launched in Parliament on 3 November 2026, features the model as an example of best practice.
Sectors we work in
Experience across energy, utilities, infrastructure, process and specialist construction.
Focus for new work: carbon capture, hydrogen and AMP8.
Power & Renewables
Generation · Grid
Oil & Gas
Upstream · Downstream
​Carbon Capture
CCUS
Data Centres
Hyperscale · Colo
Water & Utilities
AMP · Framework
Transportation
Rail · Aviation
Industrial
Process · Chemical · Food
NEC programme guides
What clause 31.2 says your programme must show, the four reasons it can be rejected and how deemed acceptance works.
The event is valid. The entitlement still goes. Seven ways it happens on NEC4 jobs, starting with the clause 61.3 time bar.
NEC does not do extensions of time the JCT way. Each event is assessed against the Accepted Programme at the dividing date.
