> This isn't my experience in the UK (I design warehouses and have worked with lots of primary contractors). I've heard about the New Engineering Contract (NEC

> This isn't my experience in the UK (I design warehouses and have worked with lots of primary contractors). I've heard about the New Engineering Contract (NEC) system that is supposedly used a lot in the UK: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Engineering_Contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Engineering_Contract * https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/NEC4 https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/NEC4 This is where (AFAICT), contracts are standardized templates, and it is only 'amendments' that are custom for the project: blueprints, bill of materials, timetables (for staging payments), etc, are custom on each job. This (supposedly) allows for fewer lawyers to be involved, and only the 'technical' stuff needs to be looked at. How pervasive is NEC? Useful at all?