Builder's Risk and Delay in Start Up Insurance Consulting
Builder’s Risk Policies
Construction projects are prone to delays resulting from loss events during construction with consequences for all parties. For contractors, delays can result in extended general conditions costs and other delay damages. For owners, delays to commercial operations can mean loss of income. It is for that reason that insurance carriers offer policies to protect contractors and owners.
Delay in Start-Up Policies
Carriers also write policies which insure against delay risks stemming from covered events in the form of Builder’s Risk policies and Delay in Start-Up (DSU) products aimed at contractors and owners respectively. VERTEX’s team works with insurance carriers to determine the cause and origin of the identified damages, and the impact of the loss event on the completion of the project so that the financial loss suffered can be quantified.
Cause and Origin Reports for Damages and Impacts
VERTEX offers architects, engineers, environmental scientists and construction experts as necessary to evaluate the cause of loss. Services include:
- Reviewing policy documents
- Delay Analysis including Period of Restoration, Period of Delay
- Retrospective – observational and/or modeled
- Baseline schedule
- Restoration Activity Information
- Updated Schedules
- As-Built Schedules
Assessment of Repair Plans
VERTEX offers architects, engineers, environmental scientists and construction experts for assessment of repair plans, as needed. VERTEX also has forensic accountants who specialize in construction to assist with evaluating expenses related to a loss event, extra expenses incurred to maintain the scheduled progress and loss of income.
Expertise
- Claims Disputes and Forensics
- Surety Claims Consulting
- Construction Claims Consulting
- Environmental Claims Consulting
- Forensic Engineering
- Forensic Cost Engineering
- Forensic Architecture
- Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigations
- Forensic Fire & Life Safety Claims
- Insurance Appraisal Consulting
- Builder’s Risk and Delay in Start Up (DSU) Insurance Consulting
- Subcontractor Default Insurance Claims Consulting
- Expert Witness Services
- Standard of Care
Contractor - Standard of Care
Contractor Termination - Standard of Care
Owner - Standard of Care
Architectural & Building Envelope - Delay and Damages
- Productivity Loss
- Termination
- Commercial Damages
- Standard of Care
Structural - Standard of Care
Site Civil - Government Contracts
- Standard of Care
Heavy Civil - Standard of Care
Geotechnical - Standard of Care
MEP - Standard of Care Fire Protection
- Standard of Care Construction Safety
- Construction Delay Claims and CPM Scheduling
- Standard of Care Fire Protection and Life Safety
- Construction Delay Claims Productivity
- Construction Delay Claims Acceleration
- Cost of Repair and Fault Allocation
- Business Interruption & Lost Profits
- Differing Site Condition
- Added Scope
- Environmental Cost Expert
- Environmental Scope Expert Witness Services
- Environmental Schedule Expert Witness Services
- Environmental Compliance Expert Witness Services
- Standard of Care
- Project Advisory
- Distressed Services & Turnaround Construction
- Project and Program Management
- Quality Assurance
- Project Controls
- Compliance and Regulatory
- Risk Assessment and Loss Control
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