LABC Building Excellence Awards 2021 winner: Best Large Social Housing Development

More than 750 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to acclaim best practise, quality and standards in construction.

These were the first Building Excellence Awards since 2019 following the global pandemic and LABC has revised the awards to focus more on professional skills and competence – dividing the awards into two: ‘people’ and ‘places’.

A panel of industry experts judged a list of the highest quality projects and teams from around England and Wales to showcase solutions to complex technical or construction issues, site constraints, technical innovation and the building control professionalism that leads to safe, sustainable and high quality construction projects.  

LABC is delighted to announce the winner of the Best Large Social Housing Development is Small Drove, Weston, Spalding, Lincolnshire.

The judges highlighted the challenges of replacing 10 one bed post-war prefab bungalows with 34 new dwellings with a mix of bungalows and houses. Obstacles to overcome included the bungalows containing asbestos and the land registered high methane gas readings. Close collaboration between a local builder who has worked on lots of social housing projects, the design team and building control delivered a development resulting in additional energy efficient housing stock, on time and within budget, which residents love to live in.

Congratulating the team, Lorna Stimpson, LABC Chief Executive said,