Skip to main content
Marsh logo

Webcast

Environmental risk considerations in construction: Owners, contractors, and developers

Failure to manage environmental risks throughout the complete lifecycle of a construction project can have negative ramifications. In this short video course, learn how to recognize different types of construction activity and how they are interrelated, identify environmental risk throughout the project lifecycle, and determine the best possible environmental insurance coverage for your project type and responsibility.

09/19/2022

Construction isn't just an industry. It's activity that can take place in any industry.

And with that activity comes considerable risk for all project stakeholders.

In our short course, Environmental Risks for Owners, Contractors, and Developers, hear from Elizabeth Bannister, environmental risk specialist in construction, as she illustrates the who, what, where, when, and why of environmental risks associated with construction projects. Elizabeth sheds light on the complexities, including:

  • Recognizing different types of construction activity and how they are interrelated
  • Identifying environmental risk throughout the project lifecycle
  • Determining the best possible environmental insurance coverage for your project type and responsibility
  • Understanding and managing contract language

Environmental Risks for Owners, Contractors, and Developers

Learn how to recognize different types of construction activity and how they are interrelated, identify environmental risk throughout the project lifecycle, and determine the best possible environmental insurance coverage for your project type and responsibility.

Environmental Risks for Owners, Contractors, and Developers

Learn how to recognize different types of construction activity and how they are interrelated, identify environmental risk throughout the project lifecycle, and determine the best possible environmental insurance coverage for your project type and responsibility.

Environmental short-course series

Marsh’s Environmental Short-Course Series is a collection of highly focused, 15-20 minute topical discussions on environmental risk management that are relevant and useful in today’s business climate.

Other courses in the series include:

  • Asbestos Bodily Injury Claims and Risk Transfer Solutions - Asbestos claims are a frictional cost of doing business. What can be done to manage mounting claims?
  • M&A Toolbox - M&A activity is back with a vengeance. Don’t let environmental liabilities derail your deal.
  • Cost Cap Insurance - Yes, there are solutions to cover project cost overruns. Learn about the options.
  • Counterparty Credit Risk - Concerned about divested environmental liabilities coming back home? Excess of indemnity insurance might be the answer.
  • Environmental Liability Buyouts - Managing environmental cleanup projects can be a significant source of financial uncertainty, and environmental insurances typically exclude known pollution conditions and associated cleanup obligations. What can a company do to create certainty?
  • Environmental Operational Risk & Insurance - Environmental loss is a significant risk that can negatively impact a business' financial position. Learn about the different categories of operational environmental risk and the risk transfer solutions that are available to help address these potential hazards.
  • Environmental Claims - Environmental claim counts have more than tripled over the last ten years. Find out what's driving the increase and how you can better prepare in the event of a loss.

Environmental short-course modules

Conserve water and environment. Shot of an unrecognizable ecologist taking samples of water with test tube from city river to determine level of contamination and pollution.

Webcast

Environmental claims

11/28/2021
Placeholder Image

Webcast

Environmental operational risk & insurance

10/27/2021
Green city

Webcast

Environmental liability buyouts

10/05/2021
metallurgical plant heavy industry poor ecology top view smoke from chimneys smog

Webcast

Counterparty credit risk and the environmental "excess of indemnity" solution

06/10/2021