CLOUDS OF VAGUENESS

I was encouraged by Matthew Leitch's taxonomy of bad behaviour to drag up a list of bad arguments I pulled together for a book that didn't get published some time ago. I thought it might contribute to the risk culture debate. The abortive book was on climate risk and now I look back I see that the discussion was unsurprisingly climate-focussed... I promised to review the Infrastructure Risk Group report on Managing Cost Risk & Uncertainty In Infrastructure Projects, a report which was launched last month at the ICE with the sponsorship of the IRM. The report is a result of work undertaken as part of the Infrastructure UK investigation of the high cost of infrastructure projects... I'm getting slightly obsessed with NEC3. As I've posted before, here and elsewhere, these forms of contract are intended to promote good practice in project management but, as far as risk is concerned, do not lay out very clearly what is intended. This is reinforced by what I see in my travels which is a