LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 winner: Best Residential Conversion to a Single New 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 Longdon, Knowle, Solihull.

The conversion of an historic Grade 2 Listed barn into a modern dwelling, built to standards exceeding the building regulations yet meeting the exacting requirements of the conservation team was extremely challenging. This building keeps the historic heritage it deserves both on its external façade and on the internal finishes whilst bringing a

modern feel to the development which has an insulation specification far in excess of the current 2022 Part L regulations.

Exemplary communication from start to finish between the project team and the public service building control team at Solihull MBC were integral to the success of this project, overcoming many logistical and technical issues.

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