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Construction and Infrastructure Risk Hub, Middle East

Marsh's Middle East Construction and Infrastructure Hub delivers specialist risk intelligence for project owners, contractors, engineers, and lenders navigating one of the region's most significant build cycles in decades.

The Middle East Is Building Again. Is Your Risk Strategy Ready? The region is entering a new infrastructure cycle of significant scale. For project owners, contractors, engineers, and lenders, the risk environment has never been more complex or more consequential.

Across the Middle East, major infrastructure programmes are accelerating. National transformation agendas are driving investment into transportation, urban development, energy transition infrastructure, and public assets at a pace that few markets globally can match. At the same time, elevated geopolitical uncertainty, supply chain volatility, hardening war risk and political risk insurance markets, and a surge in contractor demand are reshaping the risk profile of every project in the pipeline.

For those financing, building, designing, or owning these projects, the question is not whether risks exist. It is whether your risk strategy is keeping pace.

Marsh's Construction and Infrastructure practice brings deep regional knowledge and global technical expertise to every stage of the project lifecycle, from pre-construction planning and contract structuring, through to completion and operational transition. We work with project developers, contractors, engineering consultants, and financial institutions to design risk and insurance frameworks that protect capital, satisfy lender requirements, and keep projects on schedule.

What you will find in this hub

This hub brings together Marsh's latest thinking on the risks shaping construction and infrastructure in the Middle East, including:

Specialist insight on contractor all-risk, erection all-risk, and professional indemnity insurance in current market conditions. Analysis of political risk, war risk, and supply chain exposures affecting regional project delivery. Perspectives on how lenders and investors are reassessing bankability requirements in light of regional volatility. Practical guidance on risk allocation, contractual risk transfer, and claims preparedness for large-scale projects.

Why it matters now

Regional conflict and its aftermath are creating a dual dynamic: near-term project risk is elevated, while the medium and long-term reconstruction pipeline represents one of the largest infrastructure investment opportunities the region has seen. Organisations that build a rigorous risk management framework today will be better positioned to compete for, finance, and deliver those projects.

Marsh is advising clients across this spectrum. The intelligence in this hub reflects what we are seeing on the ground.

Report

Construction Market Update Q1 2026

Marsh’s Construction Market Update 2026 provides a regional view of insurance capacity, pricing, coverage, and underwriting in response to the evolving landscape. 

Our people

Dal Bhatti

Dal Bhatti

Managing Director, Construction Practice Leader, IMEA

  • United Arab Emirates