The latest PUA University session — Building for the Future: Climate Change, Wildfires and Resilient Design after the Los Angeles Fire Disaster — is now available on demand.

Led by Bruce Furukawa, Partner at Furukawa Castles LLP, this insightful webinar explores how design professionals can adapt to an evolving risk landscape shaped by climate change and increasingly severe wildfires.

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Recent litigation and court decisions have highlighted key challenges for design professionals, from indemnification to site safety.

In this important webinar, Jonathan Shoemaker of Lee/Shoemaker PLLC & Kent Holland of ConstructionRisk, LLCexamined the lessons learned from recent legal cases and how they inform contract clauses aimed at minimizing risk.

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As the frequency and intensity of storms, floods and other natural disasters increase, design professionals are faced with new challenges in meeting evolving Standards of Care.

In this timely webinar, Gail S. Kelley of ConstructionRisk LLC discusses the following:

• Managing the integral parts of a design project to ensure overall success
• Tools to effectively navigate contracts
• Strategies to carefully manage project costs and changes
• Tips for a successful project closeout

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Design-build firms and contractors face significant — and growing — professional liability exposures from the work they handle and the jobs they subcontract out. 

It’s essential to have a specialized insurance policy from a stable provider like Professional Underwriters Agency (PUA) that helps insureds mitigate risk, defends them from potential claims and covers those claims, if needed.

Read on to learn more.

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Learning objectives 

• Managing the integral parts of a design project to ensure overall success
• Tools to effectively navigate contracts
• Strategies to carefully manage project costs and changes
• Tips for a successful project closeout

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The complex environment in which architects and engineers operate means that even when risk management is a priority, professional liability claims can — and do — arise.

Having a comprehensive insurance policy from a stable provider that will defend insureds from potential claims and cover those claims, if needed, is essential for A&E professionals’ bottom line and peace of mind.

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Do you know why there is more risk when working as a design subconsultant to the design-builder?

In this webinar by J. Kent Holland – a construction lawyer and representative of design professionals, contractors and project owners as well as founder and president of ConstructionRisk, LLC – we discussed the unique risks design-build projects create for design subconsultants, examined court decisions involving design professionals and explored ways to manage or reduce the risks involved.

Learning objectives 

• Why there’s more risk when working as a design subconsultant to the design-builder
• Example claims scenarios against designers by design-builders
• Managing the risks associated with contract language
• Managing emerging risks in the design-build sector

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Does the Champlain Towers collapse from 2021 still keep you up at night? Do you fully understand your duty to warn as a design professional?

In this webinar by Bruce N. Furukawa — an industry legal expert with 30+ years of experience and founding partner of Furukawa Castles LLP — we break down exactly what happened the day of the building collapse in Surfside, Florida, identify the issues that led to the disaster and discuss the professional and legal implications for design professionals. 

Learning objectives 

• Examine the timeline of the events on the day of the Champlain Towers collapse
• Identify the issues from the preliminary forensic analysis of the building’s design, construction and maintenance history that needed to be evaluated leading up to and including the collapse
• Understand the professional responsibility of design professionals, inspection authorities having jurisdiction, contractors and building owners and operators in the design, construction, inspection and maintenance of buildings
• Discuss the Champlain Towers collapse and past building disasters to understand a design professional’s duty to warn of issues

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Do you have a handle on the key risks that arise from construction phase professional services? In this webinar, J. Kent Holland of ConstructionRisk, LLC provides an overview of common claims and how to avoid them, construction site safety basics and best practices for managing specific risks.

Learning objectives

Learn how to identify, address and manage key risks arising during construction phase professional services, including risks from:

• Requests for information
• Shop drawing reviews
• Change order reviews
• Various types of certifications, including payment, final completion, contractor compliance and lenders
• Evaluating contractor performance
• Job site safety

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Do you know the threats to your digital assets and online privacy? Do you understand your obligations to protect and manage business and customer files and resources? In this webinar, cybercrime expert Tony Whitledge teaches A&E agents and their clients how to protect the privacy of your online presence and your digital assets wherever you are — at work, at home or at a coffee shop.

Learning objectives

• Understand the threats to your digital assets and online privacy
• Learn tips, techniques and resources to help protect your personal and business identities and digital assets across all the devices you use
• Identify actions to limit tracking of your online activities
• Explore techniques to up your online security game
• Lower your susceptibility to attempts to gain access to your networks and information
• Find out how you can minimize the amount of data collected about you by websites, social media sits and other online data collectors
• Examine your obligations to protect and manage business and customer files and resources
• Discuss the use of business IT resources for personal purposes and/or using personal devices for business
• Address the circumstances requiring you to produce business information from your personal devices and the rules for governing preservation

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