Eligibility, categories & judging criteria
The LABC Building Excellence Awards in 2023 are a three stage process beginning with nominations made in each of our 12 regions. These entries will be judged regionally with winners then being judged for the national awards.
We will have one national award ceremony taking place in January/February 2024.
For information on who can enter, why you should enter and how the awards work, visit the About the LABC Awards page.
Am I eligible?
If you're a building control surveyor or anyone else involved in a building project, these are your eligibility requirements for the 2023 awards:
- Building control work will have been carried out by a local authority building control team (not by an approved inspector).
- Projects were completed between 1 January and 31 December 2022.
- Entries are submitted via the online form.
Our Award categories
Categories are now split into People and Projects and the winners will be announced at our national award ceremony.
Project categories
- Best residential extension
- Best conversion or alteration to an existing home
- Best conversion to a single new home
- Best individual new home
- Best new housing development (split into small, medium and high volume depending on the number of units)
- Best social housing development (split into small and large volume depending on the number of units)
- Best purpose built accommodation (e.g. student accommodation or a care home)
- Best non-residential extension, alteration, or conversion
- Best non-residential new build
- Best public or community building
People categories
- Best residential and small commercial designer
- Best residential and small commercial builder
- Best residential site manager
- Best non-residential site manager
- Construction specialist of the year
- Public service superstar
- Local authority building control newcomer of the year
- Best partnership with a local authority building control team
- Local authority building control team of the year (This is a national award only and doesn't have an entry form. When clients nominate any projects, they have the opportunity to put their local authority forward for this award when completing their entry form. Nominated local authorities are then asked to add to the nomination before judging takes place)
- LABC Warranty site manager of the year (this award is managed by LABC Warranty, please contact your LABC Warranty account manager for further details)
Judging criteria
See our judging criteria here
Visit the Awards page to find links to everything you need to know about the LABC awards.