Previous events
Timber construction (for reduced carbon)
23 November 2022
This webinar explored how to approach timber construction. Hosted by
Buildoffsite and CIRIA’s communities of practice, Managing Construction Risk and Driving Net Zero Carbon, we heard from Buildoffsite members and the perspectives from clients, suppliers, accreditors, and brokers.
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Offsite construction risk management
4 October 2022
In collaboration with Buildoffsite, CIRIA hosted a webinar exploring the opportunities and challenges around managing offsite construction. We heard from Buildoffsite members and the perspectives from clients, suppliers, accreditors, and brokers.
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Evaluating industry guidance on water damage risk management
19 July 2022
This webinar evaluated industry guidance on water damage risk management. CIREG and BESA provided a summary of their guidance on managing the risks of water damage. The webinar covered the challenges and practical solutions and featured the perspectives from clients, contractors, insurers, brokers and legal professionals.
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Design risk management
30 November 2021
This webinar focused on how designers overcome challenges in terms of design management, innovation and contractual risks. The emphasis was on how you solve issues.
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The benefits and challenges of single project insurance
22 September 2021
This webinar addressed both the benefits and challenges in taking on single project insurance that covers small and medium sized projects, and endeavoured to answer the following questions:
- What is project insurance?
- How does single project insurance offer value for money?
- What is not covered by project insurance?
- How does single project insurance for small to medium sized projects compare to annual multi-party insurance?
- What are the potential legal pitfalls (overlapping with other insurance products)?
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Contract works insurance: water damage risk management
17 June 2021
This webinar covered the challenges and solutions around all risk cover for water damage caused during contract works, with tangible examples of impact. the focus was on what good practice looks like in terms of risk management from the design to preventative measures on site, and it featured the perspectives of clients, contractors, designers, insurers, brokers and manufacturers.
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The challenges around professional indemnity insurance (PII)
23 March 2021
This webinar addressed some of the challenges associated with professional indemnity insurance (PII) and aimed to improve the understanding of how PII policies are developed to help mitigate risk in the construction sector. It explored how clients have managed and demonstrated company-wide real risk exposure in partnership with insurers and included case study examples highlighting the client and insurer perspectives, focusing on the challenges of PII as well as other challenges within the built environment.
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Community of Practice - Managing Construction Risk launch
8 December 2020
Community of Practice launch webinar bringing together practitioners from the construction and insurance sectors to improve the management of risk and financial performance. CIRIA's new CoP will deliver more focused collaboration and enhance knowledge transfer in risk management over the next three years by holding a series of network events and providing integrated resources in one place.
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