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Construction & Engineering Insurance

Our London Market solutions for construction and engineering needs.

Markel’s Construction and Engineering team provides Construction All Risks (CAR) and Erection All Risks (EAR) solutions for single-project construction, contractors and asset owners globally.

What we offer

Our team has designed an offering to meet the diverse needs of our clients, complementing and enhancing our broader energy and construction portfolio.


With specialist underwriters, dedicated claims handlers and an in-house risk engineer, we provide underwriting and risk management expertise, breadth of cover and professional claims service.

Coverage types

We can offer line sizes up to $50m on Company or Lloyd's paper and write primary and excess lines worldwide (excluding sanctioned territories).


Our policy is distributed via brokers through open market (retail or wholesale basis) including reinsurance, surplus lines and via delegated authority.

  • Power
    Combined-cycle or simple-cycle gas turbines, hydro, nuclear, waste-to-energy, biomass, coal, T&D lines
  • Data centres
  • Heavy industries
    Metal production, pulp & paper
  • Infrastructure and heavy civils
    Roads, bridges, tunnels, wet works
  • Oil and Gas
    Liquefaction and regassification (LNG), gas processing and storage, pipelines, refineries, petrochemicals, hydrogen, biofuels
  • Mining
    Above-ground mining and processing, underground, coal mining
  • Buildings
    Residential, commercial, wood frame

We provide comprehensive Construction & Engineering coverage across:

  • Property damage
  • Delay in start-up (DSU)
  • Primary third-party liability

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