LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 winner: Best Residential Conversion or Alteration to an existing home

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 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 Residential Conversion or Alteration to an existing home is Mill Cottage, Kidderminster.

Involving the creation of an inclusive ‘home without barriers’ for a young adult with cerebral palsy who relies on a wheelchair for the majority of his mobility needs, this exemplary project will enable someone who suffered a life changing accident to get on with their life. This new home ensures that there are no longer physical barriers presented by an inadequate property preventing them from doing so with a great degree of freedom from reliance on others. 

The building design is heavily personalised to suit the needs of a specific individual and far exceeds the criterial outlined in Approved Document M for residential properties. Every single element was assessed and designed – in conjunction with occupational therapists, the client and family members and the building control team - to provide the absolute maximum level of inclusivity achievable. All this was undertaken whilst maintaining the clients strict budget requirements which is testament to the people involved in delivering the project.

Excellent communication from start to finish between the project team and the public service building control team at North Worcestershire Building Control were integral to the success of this project.

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