6 Critical Honest Questions That Reveal Whether You Need JCT Contracts or the New Engineering Contract in 2026

  Two contractors walk into a site meeting. One’s clutching a JCT contract, the other’s clutching the new engineering contract (NEC, to its friends), and neither has actually finished reading it. No judgment — we’ve all nodded along in a meeting while secretly wondering “what is a contract, really, and why is it 400 pages.” […]