The Engineering Construction Industry is critical to the success of the UK economy. The stakeholders in this industry construct and maintain vital projects such as power stations, oil and process plants and deliver other large scale infrastructure investments.

The means of managing labour relationships to ensure completions to time and budget has rested with the National Agreement for Engineering Construction Industry (NAECI) since 1981. At that time the Agreement was ground breaking, and throughout the period since it has enjoyed considerable success. Whilst it has evolved to meet a changing business and labour environment, the Agreement was subject to a large scale review which was completed in 2007.      More...