Build It Awards 2022 showcases best of custom and self build

The Build It Awards by Build It magazine in London is a sparkling annual event in the custom and self build calendar, sharing the best the sector has to offer in terms of homes, products and services.

As always, there was a host of National Custom and Self Build Association members in attendance, and was thrilled to see many of its members shortlisted, including Oakwrights which won Best Custom Build Project or Model for its site at Webbs Meadow, below.

Self Build or Renovation Project 2022
Royan & Helen Anthony’s oak frame home (main pic)

The shortlist for this overall winner category is traditionally chosen by Build It’s editorial team from the projects featured in the magazine over the past year. From this shortlist, Build It readers choose the winner in an online poll. In a hotly contested vote, two timber-built new homes particularly captured the readers’ imagination this year. The winner, a self-managed project in Cheshire, saw the owners create a wonderful forever home that beautifully blends modern living with characterful vernacular materials.

Best Timber Frame Home
Fiddes Architects for Camhanaich

Beautifully detailed and suitably understated for its position in glorious countryside, this project impressed the judges for both its design and the fact that the timber frame system and exterior cladding were specifically specified to cope with the demands of the local weather conditions.

Best Custom Build Project or Model
Oakwrights for Webbs Meadow

The winning project is an exemplar development showing how clusters of high-quality bespoke homes on the fringes of existing settlements can be designed and built in a way that local communities will welcome and customers find very attractive.

Best Self Build for Under £250k

North Wood Design & the Mikietyns

Best Oak Frame Home

Oakwrights for Philip Roberts and Judi Burdett’s home

Best Sustainable Technology or Product

Bee Solar Technology for Heliomotion Solar Tracking System

Best EcoHome

MBC Timber Frame for Jan and Philip Oliver’s Home

Best Architect or Designer for a Self Build Project

Orme for Somerset Gate

Best Heating System or Product

NIBE Energy Systems for NIBE S2125

Best SIPS Home

Allan Corfield Architects for Low Energy Home in Fife

Best Plumbing or Drainage Product

Saniflo for Sanifos 110

Best Joinery Product

Camel Glass & Joinery for Insipiration Doors

Best Off-Site Manufactured Home

DanWood House for Gemma & James’ Hooker’s home

Best Self Build Lender

Darlington Building Society

Best Windows

Origin Windows for the Origin Slimline Window (OW-70)

Innovation in Insulation

WB Timber Innovations for Larsen Panel System

Best Cladding System or Product

Vastern Timber for Brimstone

Best Technology Installation or Product

Drayton for Wiser

Best Roofing System or Product

Made for Trade for Korniche Roof Lantern

Best ICF Home

Lilburn and Elliott Construction for Above the Bar

Best Stove Product

Stovax for Riva2 Woodburning Fires

Best Glazed Doors

Lacuna UK and Ireland for Lacuna Bifold Doors