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03 Insuring Hydrogen from Waste
04 Insuring BECCS
05 Sustainable construction: the refurb revolution
06 Workforce well-being in construction
07 The trouble with EfW
08 A future built of wood?
09 Cladding Crisis
10 Infrastructure Survey 2022
11 supply security in the spotlight
12 Desalination could be the answer to water scarcity
13 Building Resilience: Environmental Impairment Liability
14 Bioenergy and Construction
15 Modern Methods of Construction - Gardiner & Theobald 2023
16 International Contractors JVs
17 JCOP Updates2023
18 Building Up Cybersecurity in Construction
19 Captives in Construction
20 Surety Market Update Q3 2023
21 Sustainable Development Event 07.23
22 How are carbon reduction targets changing the UK construction sector?

Sustainable Development

Risk vs. Reward


Gallagher Specialty's Exclusive Construction Event

Wednesday 20th September 2023

With sustainability becoming a focus point for the Construction industry, this event will discuss how the insurance and the development industry can work better together to overcome the risk and insurance related challenges of building more sustainably.

Location: The Old Library, Lloyd’s of London, One Lime Street, London, EC3M 7HA

Date: Wednesday 20th September 2023

Time: 3:00pm – 7:30pm

Please note, we are no longer accepting registrations for this event.

We look forward to welcoming attendees on the 20th September.

Meet our speakers and panelists

The event will kick off with various industry experts including Sellar, Arup, Whitby Wood and General Projects with their thoughts on sustainable development. Speakers will include:

Meredith Davey - ESG Director, Sellar

Eoin O’Loughlin - Associate, Fire Safety, Arup

Ben Cross - Development Director, General Projects

Kelly Harrison - Director, Whitby Wood

For the second part of the event there will be a panel discussion with insurers Aviva and AXA, where the key issues facing the industry regarding sustainable development and how current barriers can be overcome will be discussed. The panel speakers will include:

James Bell – Trading Manager, Property Investors, Aviva

Oliver Wright – Lead Construction Risk Engineer, Aviva

Alistair Baker – Head of Construction, AXA XL

The panel will cover insurers’ thoughts on:

  1. What are the key issues that the development industry need to overcome to encourage insurers to increase their appetite for sustainable development?
  2. London insurer appetite vs rest of world e.g. Scandinavia and USA - why is it different?
  3. What are the challenges with repurposing existing buildings?
  4. How does insurers underwriting appetite and remit align with their wider central sustainability and environmental targets and is there a disconnect between insurers corporate messaging and the trading businesses and if so how do we overcome this?

The panel discussion will be followed by some drinks and the opportunity to network with industry professionals.

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