A Unique Benefit of ACEC Membership

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. 

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 and broad policy terms and conditions.

Program coverage includes automobile liability and physical damage; workers' compensation; and the "Spectrum" package policy affording protection for buildings, 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
Jeff Connelly 

ACEC Contact:

Charles Kim 

ACEC Life/Health Trust

Since 1965, the ACEC Life/Health Trust has provided high-quality employee benefits and exceptional value to ACEC member firms (1,500 firms and 100,000 members). We have a broad network of providers, plan options, and value-added services as we strive to make engineering the healthiest industry in the United States. Contact us today for more information on how your firm can join the ACEC Life/Health Trust.

Representative Contact:

John Krebsbach or our sales contact

ACEC Contact:

Sandy Lynch

ACEC Retirement Trust

The ACEC Retirement Trust is designed exclusively to give ACEC Member firms of any size the power to make the most of their retirement plans. For more than 50 years, we have examined the retirement marketplace, done careful due diligence, and assembled a team of retirement industry experts to deliver the ACEC Retirement Trust 401(k) plan at negotiated and competitive prices. With the pooled assets of every plan in the Trust, participating plans and participants benefit by receiving:

  • Top-notch fiduciary protection for individual retirement plans
  • Cost-savings administration and recordkeeping
  • Access to quality, low-cost investments usually out of reach for individual firms
  • Personalized investment advice and complimentary Certified Financial Planning services for every participant
  • Innovative resources to educate participants
  • Annual plan reviews and reporting without requiring internal effort
  • A valuable benefit program to help you attract and keep top talent

Enjoy the benefits of large-scale savings, reduced fiduciary risks, and a top-tier retirement plan that gives you a competitive edge.

Representative Contact:

Lydia Zabrycki

ACEC Contact: 

Caroline Knox