Risk and Insurance in Construction

Nael G. Bunni is a Chartered Engineer, Registered Chartered Arbitrator and Conciliator. He is also a visiting professor in construction law and contract administration at Trinity College Dublin. He is a past president of the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (1987–88); past president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2000–01); past chairman of its Irish branch (1986–89); and a member of the Board of Directors of the LCIA (1994–2007). Over the last 25 years, Nael Bunni has been closely involved in FIDIC issues related to risk, liability, insurance, contracts and dispute resolution. He was involved in the development of the 1999 Suite of FIDIC Contracts. He was a full member of the FIDIC Contracts Committee 2004–2009, and has been a Special Advisor to the committee since then, especially on insurance and related matters. He has also been closely involved in the development of insurance clauses within the recently published 2017 Suite of FIDIC Contracts and the 2021 Edition of the Green Book. In 2018 he received the FIDIC Louis Prangey Award, the highest recognition for dedicated service to FIDIC. Lydia B. Bunni is a Barrister practicing in Ireland specialising in Construction Law, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Planning and Environmental Law. Lydia was one of the founding members of the Construction Bar Association of Ireland and remains on the Executive Committee, serving as Treasurer of the Association. Lydia delivers lectures on the Diploma in Construction Law and Contract Administration at Trinity College Dublin and to the School of Architecture at University College Dublin. Lydia is also a Tutor on the Barrister at Law Degree with the Honourable Society of Kings Inns. In September 2020, Lydia was appointed by the Minister for Housing and Local Government to the Pyrite Resolution Board.

1. Interaction between construction, insurance and law 2. Hazards and risks 3. The spectrum of hazards and risks in construction 4. Risks as allocated and classified in standard forms of construction contracts 5. Responsibility and liability in Construction 6. Indemnity and insurance 7. The insurance scene 8. Insurance clauses in the various FIDIC standard forms of contract 9. Insurance clauses of the 1999 FIDIC forms of contract 10. Risk and insurance clauses of the 2008 Gold Book 11. The 2017 FIDIC forms of contract - White, Red, Yellow and Silver Books 12. Risk and insurance clauses of the new 2017 FIDIC forms of contract – Clauses 17, 18 and 19 13. Risk and insurance clauses of the 2021 Green Book 14. Insurance covers required under the FIDIC Suite of Contracts 15. Professional indemnity insurance 16. Alternative methods of insuring