Exhibition recap
UK Construction Week 2026
Three days on stand K3 at the UK's biggest construction show. On the Innovation Stage, Rafie Faruq showed how to cut the time and legal risk in complex construction projects, where the risk often sits between the documents rather than in any one of them.
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With Rafie, Naz, Alex and Justin
Photo: UK Construction Week, 2024 edition - When
- 29 September to 1 October 2026
- Talk on the Innovation Stage, Wednesday 30 September
- Where
- NEC Birmingham, stand K3, Hall 4, Birmingham
- What we did
- Exhibiting, Sponsoring, Speaking
- Who was there
- Rafie Faruq, Co-founder and CEO
- Naz Tareque, EMEA Business Development Lead
- Alex Sinani, Account Executive, EMEA
- Justin Chow, AI Automation Engineer
- Organiser
- UK Construction Week
- Who it is for
- Contractors, consultants, project managers, commercial managers and procurement leads
Our session
On stage
Reducing time and legal risk in complex construction projects
Rafie Faruq, co-founder and CEO of GenieAI
Wednesday 30 September, 11:50 to 12:20, Innovation Stage (Futurebuild Innovation Showcase)
On a construction project the risk sits in the gaps between documents: a liability cap that survives the main contract can fall away in the collateral warranty. The talk showed how to read the whole contract suite at once, set your own rules for it, and see exactly what you agreed, and where the line falls between the agent's work and a commercial call a person has to make.
Reducing time and legal risk in complex construction projects
The recap
What happened
Three days on stand K3 in Hall 4, talking with contractors, infrastructure firms, insurers, consultancies and resellers. Plenty of them run projects without an in-house lawyer.
Rafie Faruq's talk on the Innovation Stage made one point well: the risk on a construction project is rarely inside one contract. It sits between them, where a cap agreed in the main contract quietly disappears in a collateral warranty. The answer is to read the whole suite at once, check it against your own rules, and keep a clear record of what you agreed. The room took it well.
The same question came up on two panels and at the stand: who owns which part of the design, and do the contracts actually say so?
- Risk sits in the gaps between documents in a contract suite, not inside any one of them.
- Read the whole suite, set your own rules, and see what you agreed.
- The Design Responsibility Matrix came up on two panels: who owns what, and whether the contracts match.
- A view from a major contractor's buyer: AI in construction will start in bid work before operations.
What people asked us
Who owns which design responsibility, and do the contracts match it?
Genie reads the main contract, the appointments and the warranties together and checks each against the design responsibility you expect, so a gap between the matrix and the paper shows up before signature.
Where will construction businesses start with AI?
The view on the stand was bid work: reviewing tender terms and contract suites quickly enough to price the risk before you commit.
Read and listen
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See it for yourself
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In 30 minutes we could cover:
- Genie working on one of your own contracts, live
- How it drafts and reviews against your playbook and standards
- Which contract work AI can take on alone, and where a person signs off
- Security, data handling and how you control AI training
- What a pilot would look like for your team
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