NEC Managing Reality is a series of manuals written by NEC experts well versed in using the NEC 'at the coalface', that aims to explain how the NEC can be used to optimum benefit in everyday environments. The manuals are based on the usage of the NEC's core document - the Engineering and Construction Contract - although the principles and procedures they discuss apply equally across all documents in the NEC suite. They cover both use of the NEC in its NEC2 version, on which virtually all existing NEC contracts have been based, and the newly published (July 2005) NEC3, which is expected to be the version of NEC used on future projects