Building and Construction Insurance
Gold Coast Building & Construction Insurance
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Building & Construction Insurance: Tailored Insurance Solutions for Construction Businesses
What are the key risks in the building and construction industry?
Construction projects involve multiple stakeholders and are often undertaken on challenging sites. Construction businesses must often manage changes to scope or orders, poorly written contracts and specifications and complex project management issues. They may need to deal with labour and materials shortages, or theft of tools and materials.
Subcontractors and suppliers can provide extra stress for construction firms, as can the rising number of extreme weather events. What’s more, cybercrime is an emerging threat to construction businesses, which often use insecure connections from mobile workplaces, and share files and data with stakeholders outside the business.
Who should consider insurance?
Whether you’re an owner builder, a contractor or a large construction company, you’ll need a range of insurance covers to safeguard your workers, building and equipment.
What insurance should you take out - and what can it cover?
Following is a summary of types of insurance covers generally recommended for your industry. However, additional covers may be required for your individual business, and your Ausure Insurance Broker can tailor a cost effective insurance program to suit your specific circumstances.
- Contract works
Protects any buildings under construction and construction equipment. This cover may include protection against natural disasters like fire, earthquake, storm, flood, wind and water damage, damage to property caused by defects, theft and malicious damage or vandalism or smashed glass, third-party personal injury and property damage. - Business pack
Safeguards your business premises against equipment or machinery breakdown,
employee dishonesty, property or glass damage, tax audit theft, and theft or loss of money - Cyber
Safeguards you and your business against expenses and legal costs if your website or other systems are hacked and your system cannot be used or customers’ details are stolen.
- Commercial Motor Insurance
Takes care of your valuable business vehicles with cover to help if you or your staff damage another person’s vehicle, repair your vehicle after an accident or replace it if it’s written off, replace a lost or stolen vehicle, and safeguards you against legal liability. - Professional Indemnity
Protects you against legal action from a client for breach of professional duty. This type of insurance is often required by building contracts. - Workers compensation
Covers the cost of your employees’ wages, rehabilitation and medication if they become injured or sick through their work. - Management Liability
Covers your liability to third parties as businesses managers, for such things as Employment Practice Liabilities for wrongful dismissal or discrimination, Statutory Liabilities for breaches of Corporations Law, breaches of Fair trading law etc
Case Study:
Rick has a small construction business, which employs subcontractors from time to time. As his usual plumber was unavailable for a job renovating a home, Rick employed a plumber recommended from a friend. Unfortunately, the plumber did a careless job and a pipe burst overnight, flooding the building and causing extensive damage to the half-completed renovations. Rick successfully claimed on his contract works, which covered the cost of the labour and materials to rectify the damage.
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