Background
Kent Holland wrote on design
liability legal trends and now writes on environmental
issues for IRMI.com.
As Managing Principal of ConstructionRisk.com LLC, Mr. Holland provides
construction and environmental risk management services. His consulting
services include assisting clients in risk management and legal issues in all
phases of construction projects, including drafting and negotiating contracts,
preparing change order and claim documentation, analyzing changes and claims,
insurance risk management, and environmental risk management. His risk
management clients have included several insurers, as well as design
professionals, environmental consultants, design-builders, contractors, project
owners, and developers.
He is also a construction lawyer with the firm of ConstructionRisk Counsel,
PLLC, with a national practice emphasizing construction and environmental
law—representing project owners, design professionals, and construction
contractors in contract negotiations, claim resolution, disputes, and
litigation.
From 1982 through 1986, he was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel
of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, with responsibility for assisting
the Agency in deciding wastewater treatment construction grants disputes,
contractor claims, bid protests, suspension and debarment matters, and minority
business enterprise matters.
Mr. Holland is a frequent speaker for groups such as the American Bar
Association and IRMI on the subjects of environmental law, insurance law, and
construction law, with a special emphasis on risk management for design
professionals and contractors. He has written several books,
including Contract Guide for Design
Professionals (2012); Working of
Purpose (2011); Risk Management for
Design Professionals in a World of Change (2010); Construction Law & Risk Management—Case Notes and
Articles, Vol. II (2006); Risk Management
& Contract Guide for Design Professionals (2006); Construction Law & Risk Management—Case Notes and
Articles, (2003); Architectural/Engineering Contracts Risk Management
Guide (1997); and EPA Construction Grants
Disputes: Surviving the Audit (1990). He has also has written chapters
in several manuals and books for publishers including Wiley Law, Aspen Law, and
IRMI. He coauthored and edited Construction
Contractor's Environmental Risk Management Procedures Manual for the
Associated General Contractors Association of America (AGC). He has taught a
Federal Publications course titled The
Environmental Liabilities of Government Contractors and Agencies.
Mr. Holland publishes a Web-based construction risk management library and
legal newsletter at www.ConstructionRisk.com. He is a 1979
graduate of the Villanova University School of Law. When not working, you will
find Kent on his motorcycle, bicycle, snowboard, or playing tennis.