LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 winner: Best Non-residential Extension or Alteration

More than 850 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.

The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as well as projects, with categories for ‘People’ and ‘Places.’

A panel of industry experts judged a selection of the highest quality projects, professionals, and teams from around England and Wales to showcase solutions to complex technical or construction issues, site constraints and technical innovation. The awards highlight the vital contribution public sector building control teams make as part of the project team, ensuring safe, sustainable, and high-quality construction projects. 

LABC is delighted to announce that the winner of the Best Non-residential Extension or Alteration is Block A, Harvey Combe, Killingworth. The project was designed by Ainsworth Spark Associates and built by and for North Tyneside Council. 

This award-winning 1966/67 Grade II* Listed building was fully refurbished to provide up-to-date offices and meeting rooms, along with storage and workshop spaces. A challenging project, designed to retain the original building design, whilst modernising the interior which was in a poor state of repair. The team had to tackle widespread asbestos contamination.

The judges commented in particular on the clever approach to improving fire safety, acoustics, environmental sustainability, and disabled access to this historic building. The LABC public service building control team from North Tyneside were on hand with a swift response and excellent communications at all stages of the project, including pre-application advice.

Congratulating the whole team on their success, Lorna Stimpson, LABC Chief Executive said,