Nick Garvey

Personal website & blog · Project controls

Personal blog / Project controls & commercial practice

Ideas from the work, shared in my own words.

Long-form notes on project controls, commercial management and programme delivery. Written in a personal capacity; views are my own.

6 November 2026

Reading Between the Lines of the Disability Employment Statistics 2026

Read article

6 November 2026

Monte Carlo QCRA in Depth: How to Build, Run and Read a Quantitative Cost Risk Model

Read article

4 November 2026

How to Calculate the Cost of Risk on Construction Projects: Monte Carlo, PERT and How Often to Run Each

Read article

5 September 2026

Professional Recognition in Cost Engineering and Quantity Surveying: Why CaSA and QSi Matter

Read article

7 September 2026

NEC4 Compensation Events: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notifying Time and Cost

Read article

7 September 2026

The UK Construction Payment Process: A Step-by-Step Compliance Guide

Read article

7 September 2026

NEC4 Early Warnings: The Clause 15 Process, Explained with a Simple Flowchart

Read article

16 September 2026

NEC4 Disallowed Cost Explained: The Clause 11.2(26) Categories and How to Avoid Deductions

Read article

16 September 2026

The Accepted Programme in NEC4: Why It's the Baseline for Everything

Read article

7 September 2026

NEC4 Payment and Defined Cost: A Practical Guide to What You Can Recover

Read article

16 September 2026

The NEC4 Contract Family: ECC, PSC, TSC, FMC and Which One to Use

Read article

16 September 2026

NEC4 Main Options A to F: Choosing the Right Pricing and Risk Model

Read article

16 September 2026

NEC4 Secondary Options X, Y and Z: How to Tailor the Contract Without Breaking It

Read article

23 September 2026

QCRA vs QSRA: Which Quantitative Risk Analysis Should You Run First?

Read article

20 September 2026

How to Build an Earned Value Management Framework That Survives Board-Level Scrutiny

Read article