Helping architects and design professionals understand the basics of surety bonding can show them how a bonded project and their own success go hand in hand. NASBP Producer Communications Toolkit 2.0 offers resources that bond producers can share with design professionals so they see the importance of surety bonds and are well positioned to advise project owners of their value.

Managing Project Risks Through Surety Bonds
This document gives a brief overview of the surety bonding process and emphasizes that surety bonds ensure project success. The document provide architects with a better understanding of the essential role that surety bonds play in the construction risk management process, giving them the knowledge to to advise a project owner and to help facilitate the success of the owner’s project.

Design Professionals as Payment Bond Claimants?
This article describes the possibilities for architects and design professionals to claim on a payment bond. Included is a 50-state chart providing an overview of each U.S. state’s approach to design professionals as payment bond claimants.

Be Guaranteed to Succeed: We’re All Building Something
This NASBP Surety Story Video focuses on how surety bonds reduce risk and bring stability during times of uncertainty. “We Are All Building Something: a career, a home, a family, a life.” Share with design professionals to reiterate that surety bonds ensure the right people are on the right jobs, in the hopes of creating something great and ensuring project success.

Answers to 30 Questions Architects Ask About Contract Surety Bonding
This Q&A document can help a producer answer a wide range of questions from architects, from a simple “Why should I care?” to more complex questions regarding indemnity, contractor default, and claims.

These are just some of the valuable, free tools NASBP bond producers will find in the NASBP Producer Communications Toolkit 2.0 to help them promote the surety product to construction project stakeholders, including project owners, lenders, architects, and contractors.

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