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McLarens launches new impartial surveying enterprise | Newest Information

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Global insurance services company McLarens has announced the launch of Brawdia, an independent construction and construction consultancy providing insurance-related surveying services across the UK and Ireland.

Brawdia aims to create a strategic proximity to McLarens’ core business while supporting insurers, brokers and their commercial and high net worth customers.

The Manchester-based company will operate as a separate but 100% owned entity.

Construction consulting includes the reinstatement of tenders and project management, analysis of construction costs, contract management, investigation and resolution of subsidence damage, technical due diligence, error analysis, dilapidated surveys and the work of experts.

Appointment as head

Philip Barmby - Brawdia

Philip Barmby has joined the newly formed company as Managing Director to lead and expand a team of chartered surveyors with extensive experience in the insurance market.

Barmby is a Chartered Surveyor with over 25 years of experience. He comes from the real estate company Savills, where he headed the insurance re-establishment department as director for construction and project consulting.

Steven Wallace, McLarens Managing Director, UK and Ireland, said: “This is an extremely positive step in the development of McLarens – a clear proposition from our core loss adjustment business, but one that is heavily aligned with our focus on complex commercial and commercial issues is niche markets.

“Philip has a great reputation and a wealth of expertise in surveying services for both pre- and post-loss insurance.

“The team will no doubt offer the same culture, quality of service and technical expertise that have become synonymous with our values ​​and I am excited to add Brawdia to the McLarens family.”

Barmby added, “In a claims context, surveying requires extensive construction expertise and extensive knowledge and understanding of the various aspects of an insured loss, regardless of whether you are familiar with value-at-risk cost assessment. Understand the nuances of business continuity or managing multiple stakeholders.

“Brawdia will provide the industry with an essential mix of technical skills, pragmatism and experience. This is an extremely exciting endeavor that I would like to lead and develop further. “