ACEC Trust Programs

Business Insurance
Life and Health Insurance
Retirement Programs

ACEC's Trust Programs are designed to enhance your membership investment by helping to control your firm's costs. Programs are available for business insurance, life/health insurance, and retirement plans. The ACEC Trusts have created partnerships with reputable administrators and plan providers that offer valuable services with quality and 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.

In order for an engineering firm to take advantage of these excellent business opportunities you must become a member. ACEC membership is available through one of the 52 state and regional councils, called Member Organizations. Click on Join ACEC to begin your first steps to savings for your business. For membership information, call 202-347-7474 and ask for the Membership Department.

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 Business Insurance Trust:  ckim@acec.org

ACEC Life/Health Trust:  Daphne Bryant at dbryant@acec.org

ACEC Retirement Trust:  Caroline Burns at cburns@acec.org

ACEC members can achieve further savings through ACEC's Discount Programs. Click here for more information on these programs or contact discountprograms@acec.org.

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)

The mission of ACEC Life/Health Trust (Trust) is "To provide healthcare benefit solutions and services to support the business objectives of ACEC member firms and the health and wellbeing of the firms' employees and families." Since 1965, the Trust has dedicated our efforts to supporting the health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance needs of engineering firms across the country. The Trust does this by partnering with top leaders in the health insurance and health benefits industry to deliver health plans that raise the bar on affordability and quality, with group-negotiated advantages such as lower premiums, reduced administrative costs, more coverage options and wellness programs to help your employees get healthier.

Member firms are backed by the group purchasing power of more than 1,700 firms and 90,000 participants. The Trust financial strength equates to long-term rate stability and an enhanced value proposition for every member firm we serve.

Representative Contact:
John Krebsbach (john@aceclifehealthtrust.com)

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 retirements 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 Zabrycki (Lydia.Zabrycki@captrust.com)