ACEC’s Trust Programs
The ACEC Business Insurance Trust, ACEC Life/Health Trust, and ACEC Retirement Trust can enhance your membership investment by helping to control your firm's costs. Programs are available for business insurance, life/health insurance, and 401(k) retirement plans. The ACEC Trusts have created partnerships with respected administrators and plan providers that offer valuable services at competitive prices. In addition to providing business savings, these programs make for an attractive employee retention program in which individual employees benefit from your ACEC purchasing power.
To take advantage of the Trusts, one of the requirements is that you must become an ACEC member. The Business Insurance Trust and the Life/Health Trust offer coverage upon approval to firms with national membership as engineering or land surveying firms, while the Retirement Trust offers retirement programs to those firms and as well as National and M.O. Affiliate Member companies. ACEC membership is available through one of the 51 state and regional Member Organizations. To determine if your firm might quality to participate in one or more of the Trust programs, click on Become a Member, call 202-347-7474 and ask for the Membership Department, or send an email to memberservice@acec.org.
If you are a company that provides products or services to the consulting engineering industry and are interested in gaining national visibility within the association, click here to learn more about the National Affiliate Member program or contact Jacklin Siganda with ACEC’s Member Services Department. Please note that, in addition to the ACEC membership requirement, eligibility for participation in the ACEC Trusts is also subject to the rules and regulations of each Trust program.
Learn more about the three ACEC trusts by downloading our brochure.
For additional information on the ACEC Trust programs, please see the contact information below for each Trust. In addition, contact information for the ACEC national office liaison for each Trust follows:
ACEC members can achieve further savings through ACEC's Discount Programs. Click here for more information on these programs or contact discountprograms@acec.org.
ACEC Business Insurance Trust
The ACEC Business Insurance Trust (BIT) oversees a program that provides business and professional liability insurance coverage for participating ACEC member firms. The program offers policyholders ACEC-exclusive tailored coverage along with broad policy terms and conditions.
Program coverage includes automobile liability and physical damage; workers' compensation; and the "Spectrum" package policy affording protection for buildings, business personal property, money and securities, business liability, equipment breakdown, drones, cyber security, computers and media. Catastrophe liability protection is available through umbrella coverage.
The business insurance plan underwriter is The Hartford. The plan administrator is Greyling, a division of EPIC.
Representative Contacts:
Lee Ann Wheeler (leeann.wheeler@greyling.com)
Jeff Connelly (jeff.connelly@greyling.com)
ACEC Life Health Trust
The ACEC Life/Health Trust is an Association Health Plan serving ACEC Member firms since 1965. We offer affordable, high-quality health plans to over 1,300 ACEC Member firms nationwide.
Although we serve firms of all sizes, we take particular pride in offering small firms the products and services generally only available to large firms. We take a long-term approach to employee benefits and strive for consistency and predictability. The results speak for themselves: We've been in business for over 50 years and are proud to say we have a 90 percent annual retention rate. Contact us today for more information on how your firm can join the ACEC Life/Health Trust.
Representative Contact:
John Krebsbach (John.krebsbach@aceclht.com) or sales@aceclht.com.
Retirement Trust
The ACEC Retirement Trust allows any size firm to have enormous buying power. The ACEC Retirement Trust was originally formed in 1973 for the purpose of combining the assets of multiple unaffiliated firms to provide:
- Greater fiduciary protection for individual retirement plans
- Cost-effective administration and recordkeeping
- Quality, low-cost investments typically unavailable to individual firms
- Innovative participant education resources
- More frequent and detailed review and reporting without tying up your internal resources
A valuable benefit program to attract and retain talent. Harness the right expertise while you stay focused on engineering. Leverage economies of scale. Reduce fiduciary risk. Gain a competitive advantage with a best-in-class retirement plan you can't get from any source but the ACEC Retirement Trust.
Representative Contact:
Lydia Zabryck (Lydia.Zabrycki@captrust.com)