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Our Approach to Managing Risk in Construction & Design

A hands-on, proactive process that improves outcomes and reduces risk across your business and your projects

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Partnering With You to Turn Insight Into Action

Risk decisions are not made in isolation. They happen within your business, across your projects, and often under real-world pressure. That requires alignment between your team and ours, with a shared understanding of how you operate.

Our role is to bring clarity and structure to that process, applying insight, data, and experience in a way that supports decisions, strengthens alignment, and improves outcomes over time.

A Client-focused, Data-driven Lifecycle of Support

Our approach is built around you. It supports the full scope of how construction and design firms operate, from program development and contract review to claims, renewals, and broader business events such as growth and acquisition.

At every stage, our work is guided by data, benchmarking, and real-world experience. This creates a connected approach where risk, insurance, and advisory are aligned and continuously informed by how your business and your projects evolve.

 

How Our Lifecycle Works in Practice

Each element connects to create a coordinated approach that supports your business, your projects, and your long-term outcomes.

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Build and Align

We begin by understanding your business, your projects, and your risk profile in context. Using data and benchmarking, we help structure insurance programs, align contracts, and identify where risk can be better managed before issues arise.

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Advise and Execute

As projects move forward, we work alongside your team to provide guidance, respond to changing conditions, and support execution in real time. This includes ongoing advisory, project-specific insight, and claims advocacy when it matters most.

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Evaluate and Improve

Our work continues beyond placement and project completion. We assess performance, refine strategy, and engage early in the renewal process to identify opportunities, address challenges, and strengthen outcomes over time.

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A Clearer View of Risk, Backed by Data and Experience

Understanding the environment and where you stand is critical to improving how risk is structured and managed.

Better decisions start with better information. We use data, benchmarking, and ongoing analysis to understand how your risk profile compares across the market and where opportunities exist to improve performance, structure, and cost.

This insight is applied continuously, not just at renewal. It helps surface issues earlier, challenge assumptions, and support more informed decisions as your business and projects evolve.

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Working With You, We Shape Renewal Outcomes Well Before Your Renewal Date.

Starting early creates the time and space for more thoughtful decisions, stronger alignment, and a renewal process built around your priorities.

We do not treat renewal as a deadline-driven exercise. Our renewal process begins well before the market is approached. That extended runway allows us to review performance, assess changes in your business and projects, and identify issues that can affect structure, cost, and carrier positioning.

Working alongside your team, we use that time to refine strategy, strengthen alignment, and prepare the market with greater clarity and purpose. That leads to a renewal process with fewer surprises and better support for your business and your projects.

What This Changes for Your Business

You get a partner and a process that delivers more control, clearer decisions, and greater consistency across your risk and insurance strategy.

  • Better decisions made earlier
    More time and clearer insight lead to decisions that are informed, deliberate, and aligned before pressure builds.
  • Stronger alignment across your program
    Contracts, coverage, and execution are coordinated rather than addressed in isolation.
  • More control during renewal and claims
    Greater preparation and continuity reduce uncertainty and improve how issues are managed when they arise.
  • Consistency across projects
    A connected lifecycle approach helps bring greater consistency and control to how risk is managed across your portfolio.

Where Experience, Insight, and Execution Come Together

EPIC Construction & Design brings together industry expertise, a structured lifecycle, and a hands-on partnership to support how risk and insurance are managed in practice.

It is an approach grounded in real-world experience and informed by data, applied consistently to help you navigate complexity, make better decisions, and operate with greater confidence.

Our Team

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Kristen Walker
Senior Vice President, Atlanta, GA
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Bill Ferree
Principal – Pleasant Hill, CA
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Brennen Parker
Southeast Growth Leader, Atlanta, GA
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Kena Aagesen
Principal, Houston, TX

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