IMUA Advanced Builders Risk Forum


Monday, September 14, 2026
at
5:00 PM (CDT)
to Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM (CDT)
Category: Annual Event

Overview

Please join us for the inaugural IMUA Advanced Builders Risk Forum, featuring high-impact sessions focused on the evolving opportunities and challenges shaping today’s builders risk market. Designed for underwriters, brokers, claims professionals, and loss control specialists, this premier event will deliver expert insights, practical discussion, and meaningful industry collaboration.

The Forum will also feature interactive panels, live polling, audience engagement, and real-time Q&A throughout each session, creating a highly dynamic and engaging experience.

In addition, a limited number of attendees will have the opportunity to tour active construction projects including a data center and a frame site. Learn more about the optional tours here

Register today! Attendance is limited to 200 participants. The inaugural IMUA Advanced Builders Risk Forum promises to be a standout industry event filled with valuable insights, meaningful connections, and an exceptional educational experience.

Sessions

  • Power Generation & Energy Systems Data center-adjacent power infrastructure, on-site generation, cooling mechanisms, and the emerging role of renewables and SMRs

  • NFPA 241: Fires in Structures Under Construction Case studies, root causes, and compliance gaps

  • Construction & Risk Management Transition from Construction to Operations, Commissioning Risk, and Phasing Sequencing 
  • Protective Safeguards & Site Security Technology Monitoring systems, security technology, and measurable effectiveness

  • Managing Data on Data Centers How the Market is Underwriting and Managing Limits on Data Center Construction  

  • Reinsurance Capacity Accumulation How treaty and fac capacity is stacking across carrier portfolios on data center construction and the reinsurer's view on aggregation exposure 
  • Underwriter & Developer Perspectives on Wood Frame  Panel discussion on how wood frame is being written, what’s driving decisions, and where the market is heading  
  • Emerging Trends in the General Contractor Space What's real, what's coming, and what it means for underwriting

View the Agenda

Venue

Falls Church Marriott Fairview Park

Hotel accommodations are not included in registration. Use the information below to secure a reservation. We recommend booking your room early.

Final day of room block rate: August 24, 2026

Reserve Online: BOOK NOW
Reserve by Phone:
1-888-236-2427 (mention the IMUA September Conference)
Room Rate:
$239/night + tax

Pricing

Early Bird Registration (May 18 - July 24): $449
Standard Registration (Starting July 25): $549
Includes registration 2 half days of education, 1 day of breakfast, 1 networking reception, and 2 coffee breaks. View full agenda here.

TOURS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN GENERAL REGISTRATION. Tour space is very limited. In order to be added to the lottery for our tours, you must be an IMUA member and be registered for the conference. Learn more about the tours here. 

Monday, September 14

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Field Trip Orientation
 For tour attendees only.

Tuesday, September 15

7:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tours
 Tours are an optional add-on with limited capacity.

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Kick-off & Welcome

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Power Generation & Energy Systems

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

NFPA 241: Fires in Structures Under Construction

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Coffee Break 

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

 Construction & Risk Management

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Protective Safeguards & Site Security Technology 

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Networking Reception 
With light appetizers.

Wednesday, September 16

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:10 AM

Managing Data on Data Centers

9:10 AM - 9:45 AM

Reinsurance Capacity Accumulation

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Underwriter & Developer Perspectives on Wood Frame 

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

 Emerging Trends in the General Contractor Space

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Closing

TOURS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN GENERAL REGISTRATION. Tour space is very limited. In order to be added to the lottery for our tours, you must be an IMUA member and be registered for the conference. 

Data Center Tour

$325/ticket

Gain exclusive access to one of the region’s active data center construction projects and explore the unique challenges shaping today’s most complex Builders Risk exposures. Attendees will see firsthand the scale, infrastructure demands, commissioning pressures, power requirements, and evolving operational considerations driving the rapid expansion of AI and cloud computing facilities.

Enter the Data Center Tour lottery for a chance to register

Frame Tour

$175/ticket

Tour an active mixed-use construction campus featuring multiple project types and construction phases, including wood-frame multifamily, structural concrete and steel, and build-to-suit commercial development. This immersive field experience will provide practical insight into construction sequencing, fire protection considerations, site logistics, and the evolving risk management challenges associated with large-scale frame construction projects.

Enter the Frame Tour lottery for a chance to register

Credits Price
Early Bird Registration - Non-Member Broker
Registration Ends 7/24/26 at 11:59 PM CDT
$449.00

For More Information:

Allie Monreale

Allie Monreale

IMUA