2020 Shortlist

Below you will find the full shortlist for the Build It Awards 2020 in association with BuildStore

Best Architect or Designer for a Self Build Project sponsored by Kloeber 

• ARCO2 Architecture – Featherbeds
• Chewton Bespoke – Northcott
• Greenspace Architects – Plot 0153 Graven Hill
• Living Space Architects – Origami – Ide
• Lynn Palmer Architects – The Slate House
• Rayner Davies Architects – Lime Tree House
• Ström Architects – Island Rest

Best Architect or Designer for a Renovation or Extension Project 

• A’Bear & Ball Architects – Chapel House
• Architects Atelier – Lakeview
• ARCO2 Architecture – Little Cutmadoc
• lapd Architects – Pippins
• Paul Archer Design – Fin
• van Ellen + Sheryn – Botter Cottage
• Welsh Oak Frame – The Bowden cottage

Best Self Build or Renovation Project sponsored by Self Build Zone

• James & Caroline Sharp: Hybrid oak and timber frame ideal for family home
• Debbie & Laurence Osborne: Wow factor metal extension to grade II listed barn
• Miranda Tufnell: Rural barn converted into modern eco house
• Howard & Angela Payne: No hurdle too big for this contemporary build
• Jade & David Oliver: 1970s property transformed into stylish high-tech home
• Sharon & Martin Newman: Friends create semi-detached self build homes

Best Council for Self or Custom Build

• Bristol City Council
• Carlisle City Council
• Glasgow City Council
• South Gloucestershire Council
• City of York Council

Best Custom Build Project or Model 

• Border Oak – Stoke Prior
• Graven Hill Village Development Company – Graven Hill
• Livedin – Ingoldisthorpe

Best Timber Frame Home 

• ARCO2 Architecture – Waterhouse
• Fleming Homes & Stuart Davidson Architecture – Scott’s Place
• Frame Technologies – Tanglewood
• Graven Hill & A’Bear & Ball Architects- Omotayo
• KTF Timber Frame Housing – Vicky Wakefield
• MBC Timber Frame – Lyncroft House
• Potton – The MacDonalds
• Scandia-Hus – Apps Hollow

Best Brick Home

• CB Homes – Plot 1, Sawyers Meadow
• Complete Oak Home – Chiltern Cottage
• Furness Brick – Cliffe Vale
• Northcot Brick – Northcot House

Best Off-Site Manufactured Home

• Frame Technologies – Tanglewood
• Graven Hill & Facit Homes – Marsale
• MBC Timber Frame – Lyncroft House
• The Wee House Company – Wee House for David & Christine

Best Oak Frame Home – sponsored by Stovax

• Border Oak – Mr & Mrs Brown
• Complete Oak Home – Chiltern Cottage
• Paragon Oak – Woolgreaves Hall Project
• Welsh Oak Frame – Smith Project

Best ICF Home

• Beco Wallform – The Meadway
• Eco Massive House – Flint Barn
• van Ellen + Sheryn – Beechwood

Best SIPS Home

• Greenspace Architects – Plot 0153, Graven Hill
• JML Contracts – Farragon House
• Potton – The Jays

Best Self Build for Under £250k – sponsored by Protek

• Aitken Turnbull Architects – The Landels
• Fleming Homes & Stuart Davidson Architecture – Scott’s Place
• Frame Technologies – Birchfield

Best Eco Home

• ARCO2 Architecture – Tresidder
• Buildakit – Toller Grove
• Eco Massive House – Flint Barn
• Frame Technologies – Tanglewood
• MBC Timber Frame – Lyncroft House

Best Accessible or Inclusive Home

• Barc Architects – Sanctuary House
• lapd Architects – Greenfields
• Swindon Home Control – Hughes Project

Best Heating System or Product

• Drayton – Wiser Multi-Zone Kit
• DRU Fires – Virtuo Electric Fire
• Harlequin Manufacturing – HeatStream
• Moss Technical – Digital Black Thermostat
• Orangehouse Renewables – Water Source Heat Pump
• Stovax  & Gazco – Reflex 105 Multi Sided
• Stovax & Gazco – Studio Air

Best Sustainable Technology or Product 

• CorkSol UK – Thermocork
• Gartec – Aritco HomeLift
• Grohe – Blue Home Duo
• Solarwatt – Complete PV Package

Best Home Technology Product or Installation

• Amina – Mobius i range
• Baulogic – Baulogic
• Clarke Infinity – El Padrino Home Cinema
• FireAngel – FireAngel Pro Connected
• Gartec Home – Aritco HomeLift
• Lithe Audio – Wireless Bluetooth Ceiling Speakers
• Moss Technical – Wireless Motion Detector

Best Plumbing or Drainage Product

• Bassetts – GLO+ Underfloor Heating
• Impey – Universal Wetroom Drain
• Marley Plumbing and Drainage – Foundry Finish Rainwater System
• Methven – Turoa Rail Shower
• Polypipe – PolySoil

Innovation in Insulation

• Caribbean Blinds – Antiguan External Blind
• Core Conservation – TermoRasante AeroGel Thermal Lime Plaster
• Loft Leg – Loft Leg XL
• Rockwool – Thermal Timber Frame Slab

Best Cladding System or Product

• Cupa Pizarras – Cupaclad Natural Slate Rainscreen Cladding System
• Kebony – Kebony Character
• Russwood – SILA Select Cladding RW014

Best Windows

• airby Everglade – MOD Series
• IQ Glass – Invisio
• Kloeber – Aluminium Heritage Window
• Masterframe Windows – Vintage Conservation Sash Window
• Quickslide – PVCu Legacy Sliding Sash Window
• Rationel – Auraplus
• Roseview Windows – Ultimate Rose
• Velfac – V200

Best Roofing System or Product 

• Cupa Pizarras – Cupa R12
• IQ Glass – Invisio Rooflight
• Wallbarn – M-Tray Instant Green Roof System

Best Glazed Doors

• Express Bi-Folding Doors – XP Vision
• IDSystems – Heritage Doors
• IDSystems – theEdge2.0
• IQ Glass – MHB SL30
• IQ Glass – Miro
• Kloeber – Timber KustomFold
• Lacuna UK and Ireland – Lacuna Classic Folding Door
• Ultraline – Ultraline Sliding Door

Best Joinery Product

• Benchmarx Kitchens – True Handleless Kitchen
• Bisca Staircases – Stacked Spiral Staircase
• Kloeber – KlassicFront Entrance Door
• Kloepping TSS – Thatch Barn
• Max-stairs – Breathtaking Y Staircase
• Zakuna – Dutchman
• Zakuna – Invisible Door System

  Best Self Build Lender

• Bath Building Society
• Darlington Building Society
• Ecology Building Society
• Furness Building Society
• Hinckley & Rugby Building Society
• Mansfield Building Society
• Newcastle Building Society