Placer Solutions, a consulting firm focused on driving change and accelerating technology adoption in construction, announced a new partnership with AXA XL Insurance, a provider of global commercial insurance. Under the terms of the agreement, Placer Solutions will join the AXA XL Construction Ecosystem as a preferred partner in a network of products and services focused on advancing technology adoption, leveraging data to solve customers’ problems, enhancing risk management and supporting business goals.
Placer Solutions has been selected to help support the Construction Ecosystem as an AXA XL-endorsed consulting firm that will work with their construction customers on technology change management. As part of the Construction Ecosystem, Placer Solutions will offer a customized Field Assessment to AXA XL customers, which leverages a proprietary network analysis approach to highlight and profile key groups of individuals in a construction firm’s operations. Previous clients of Placer Solutions have included Top Engineering News-Record (ENR) contractors that have used results from the assessment to improve strategic technology planning and inform product selection.
“Placer Solutions has a deep understanding of the construction ecosystem, specifically how the industry’s field-based and project-based nature can make enterprise-wide programs difficult in practice,” said Rose Hall, senior vice president, head of innovation, Americas at AXA XL. “The greatest technologies in the world are most effective if embraced by the culture of the industry they serve. By partnering with a company like Placer Solutions, we enable our customers to focus on the human element that drives technology adoption, which will result in them having a more robust technology adoption roadmap.”
Placer Solutions will be included as part of AXA XL’s Referral Program. Member companies receive Preferred Terms and Discounts on Placer Solutions’ services.
“AXA XL’s leadership in bringing together construction’s fragmented value chain to solve big problems is exactly what the moment demands,” said Nate Fuller, founder of Placer Solutions. “We look forward to working with AXA XL’s customers. brokers and other business partners in our shared journey to modernize the industry and deploy new solutions that can address the needs of our industry’s workforce in meaningful ways.”
