LABC Building Excellence Awards 2022 winner: Best Small Social Housing Development

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 Small Social Housing Development is William Cuffy House, Southwark, designed by W Griffith Architects and built by Neilcott Construction Ltd.

The project involved the construction of a seven-storey residential development containing 17 dwellings for social rent for the London Borough of Southwark.

Built under the LABC Partner Authority Scheme, prestart meetings between the building control plan checking team at Swansea Council and the inspecting team from the London Borough of Southwark helped to coordinate the design approach and highlight any concerns from the outset. This proactive and collaborative approach by the client, designers, contractors and building control teams resulted in a real exchange of knowledge and learning and everybody acknowledging a positive outcome.

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