CRIS® Certification Reaccreditation

Once you earn the right to use the CRIS certification you must engage in an ongoing continuing education process to maintain it. This involves obtaining 7 hours of approved construction risk and insurance continuing education credit during the 24 months following initial receipt of the certification and every 12 months thereafter. You may obtain this CE credit by completing online CRIS courses or attending seminars or conferences that have been approved for CRIS reaccreditation (and notifying us that you have completed them). This process is explained below.

Online CRIS® Courses for Reaccreditation

In addition to the core courses you completed when you obtained your CRIS certification, the CRIS Learning Center offers a number of other construction risk and insurance courses designed to increase your expertise. In most cases one of these courses is all that is necessary to satisfy your 7-hour CE requirement, and most also qualify for insurance CE if you need it. Here is a list of the currently available courses:

These courses are now available in the CRIS Learning Center’s Course Catalog. Simply go to the CRIS Learning Center, select “CRIS Courses for Reaccreditation,” and then click on the “Reaccreditation” tab at the top of your screen. We will periodically add more courses in the future to build a library of courses focused on the risk and insurance issues faced by contractors.

Alternatively, you may retake one of the core courses to satisfy the 7-hour requirement, and we recommend you do this every few years as we update the courses to cover the latest developments in construction risk and insurance.

Attend a Seminar or Conference

Your other option for maintaining your CRIS certification is to attend an approved conference or seminar. The process for this is:

Attend a seminar or conference that has been approved for CRIS reaccreditation. You must attend the seminar or conference after receiving your CRIS certification.
The conference or seminar sponsor will provide you with a Certificate of Completion containing a unique and nontransferable Completer Code number.
Go to the Voucher/Promotion/Completer Code Redemption page in the CRIS Learning Center to report your attendance and pay the reaccreditation fee. You will need the Completer Code number from the Certificate of Completion you received when you do so. The fee for this reaccreditation option pays the costs of administering this part of the CRIS program.

Approved Seminars and Conferences

The following seminars and conferences have been approved for CRIS Reaccreditation.

Seminar/Conference	CRIS Credit	Sponsor	Program Availability
2008 IRMI Construction Risk and Insurance Seminars
Construction Defect Risk Management and Insurance	7 hours	IRMI	San Diego March 25-26, 2008 Miami April 8-9, 2008 Dallas April 22-23, 2008
Contract Risk Management: Tactics for Success	7 hours	IRMI	San Diego March 25-26, 2008 Miami April 8-9, 2008 Dallas April 22-23, 2008
New Industry Contracts and Your Bottom Line	7 hours	IRMI	San Diego March 26-27, 2008 Miami April 9-10, 2008 Dallas April 23-24, 2008
Wrap-Ups: Beyond the Basics from Concept to Closeout	7 hours	IRMI	San Diego March 26-27, 2008 Miami April 9-10, 2008 Dallas April 23-24, 2008
27^th IRMI Construction Risk Conference	7 hours	IRMI	No longer available
Construction Benefits Conference	7 hours	IRMI	No longer available
2007 IRMI Construction Risk and Insurance Seminars
Construction Defect Risk Management and Insurance	7 hours	IRMI	No longer available
Wrap-Ups: Avoiding the Pitfalls	7 hours	IRMI	No longer available
26^th IRMI Construction Risk Conference	7 hours	IRMI	No longer available

Obtaining Reaccreditation Approval for Seminars or Conferences

If your organization sponsors seminars, conferences, or other educational programs (Programs) that focus on construction law, accounting, risk management, insurance, surety, or safety topics, consider having them certified for CRIS reaccreditation. In addition to this focus, they must meet the following criteria to qualify:

The duration of instruction must be at least 3 hours.
The program content must provide a level of instruction that will advance the knowledge and competence of someone who has completed the CRIS core curriculum.
You must have a satisfactory method of monitoring attendance or completion of the course.
You must agree to certain administration, notification, and recordkeeping requirements.

Obtaining CRIS reaccreditation approval will make your seminar or conference more attractive to those potential participants who have obtained the CRIS certification. We may also provide a link from our listing of approved programs in the CRIS Web site to your promotional page in your Web site. There is a $50 nonrefundable filing fee for each course you submit that must be paid by credit card at the time of application.

Submit a Program for CRIS Reaccreditation