A conversation between parts of the construction and insurance industries at a time of significant regulatory change, increasing risks and a hardening of the insurance market in terms of cover and affordability.
Some may argue that we are where we are and the market reflects the current risk situation. Others will argue that the present arrangements give little comfort to clients and that the fragmentation of design and construction procurement feeds conflict and litigation at considerable cost.
The combination of the climate and biodiversity emergency, the Grenfell tragedy (and the near misses in Scottish schools) and the desire of the Government to build 300,000 homes a year has led to unprecedented activity around Fire Safety, Building Regulations, Future Homes and other standards, the planning process and Procurement for Value. While all these are very necessary, they are leading to significant changes in how we all procure, design and build with increased risks, not least those arising from the race to achieve net-zero carbon construction.
This roundtable is being held under the Chatham House rule to ensure the greatest openness and creative thinking. We are asking you to seize the moment and imagine a better way of doing it and then how we might get there but please be brief in your opening remarks (5 minutes). The aim is to identify a few issues that we could usefully follow up in more public debates.
The Roundtable was a collaboration between the Edge and Howden
Chair: Fergus Harradence, Deputy Director, Infrastructure and Construction, BEIS
The insurer’s perspective:
Tom Barney, Howden Professional Indemnity
Mark Brundell, Zurich Head of Professional Indemnity
Mark Sommariva, Brunel Professions’ UK sales director
Are there alternatives?
Kevin Thomas, MD and a founding director of Integrated Project Initiatives (IPI)
What do clients need?
Rob Lane, Group Commercial Director, Clarion Housing Group
Robert Knight, Igloo regeneration Operations Director for people place and planet.
Graham de Roy, Planit Ventures Partner and formerly director of Griffiths and Armour
The designer’s perspective
Nigel Ostime, Hawkins Brown Architects Partner Project Delivery and Chair of RIBA Client Liaison Group
Judith Sykes, Senior Director, Expedition Engineering and Useful Projects + Edge
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