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Put your digital hands together for the LABC Warranty Site Recognition Award winners for October 2024. Our account management team will personally deliver their certificates to site, but for now join us in congratulating: Kellen Homes - Irwell View L & W Wilson (Endmoor)Ltd - Estuary Hill Vistry Group & Treveth - Tolgus Gilbert and Goode - St Erth Classic Builders & Exeter City Council - Vaughan Road Elivia Homes - Rectory Meadows Chartway Partnerships Group - Alkerden 5B Thakeham Partnerships * Abri Group - Loxwood Field MORRIS HOMES (EASTERN) LIMITED - Hampton Water MORRIS HOMES (NORTH) LIMITED - Broadacre Steven Bleasdale, Daniel Weepman MCIOB RBI 2A/B, Justin Penhallurick (ICIOB), Dulcie Paleschi, Marc Jones, Iain Shaw, Rebecca Sanders, Shaun Hill, Toby Attwood, Jonathan Cornell, Robin Underhill, Callum Driver, Clive Fuller, Gavin Hunt, mark tolley, John Gaffney, Joe Salkeld, Anthony Clayton FCIOB.

NEW. LABC Warranty has launched a new batch of toolbox talks to help your staff gain a crucial understanding of critical construction topics. Delivered in a morning, the new crash courses include substructure, intermediate flooring, parapet walls and more. Read more or enquire on the site here: https://bit.ly/3OqQh4r

ICYMI: The LABC Warranty Technical Team has confirmed that we do not approve the use of lift pit liners on buildings covered by our warranty. More background on the liners, and the reasons for this decision, are available on the LABC Warranty Technical Blog here: https://bit.ly/3OtJmaN

Bad weather was nowhere near enough to get in the way of LABC Warranty's Liam May from delivering a Site Recognition Award to ebc Partnerships Limited and Coastline Housing, celebrating their Treloweth Lane site in St Erth. Congratulations to all involved! Paul Lambert, Leah Field, Gary Parnell, Anthony Cavill

The icy conditions aren't over yet, with a winter storm set to fall on the UK this weekend. Which begs an important question - how do you protect masonry from the freeze-thaw cycle, also known as frost attack? As ever, the LABC Warranty Technical Blog has you covered: https://bit.ly/3OG8efH

Our very own Ian Clarke braving the Arctic conditions to present a Site Recognition Award to Warren Smith of MyPad. Congratulations to the entire team over there at Lake Terrace on the excellent work they're doing!

LABC Warranty’s Head of Innovations, Andrew Fox, at the 2024 Social Housing Conference talking about what Labour’s new housing targets will mean for local authorities using OSM and MMC. Let us know your thoughts in the comments if you attended.

LABC Warranty’s Head of Innovations, Andrew Fox, will appear at the 2024 Social Housing Conference to talk about what Labour’s new housing targets will mean for local authorities using OSM and MMC. If you’re planning a visit to the event, be sure to pop into Broadgate 2 at 14:40 to learn more. Andrew and the LABC Warranty team will also be on hand after to answer any questions that you have after the panel. Use this link to download an .ical reminder for the talk https://bit.ly/3Og38Gr

You may have seen a news item today about the acceptance of spray-foam insulation in homes. This is as good a chance as any to catch up on LABC Warranty's position and guidance on the use of spray foam insulation in roofs: https://bit.ly/48TrhfA

Popping into our Manchester office today, and look what we found on the wall. Our parent company, HSB, is rated A++ (Superior) by A.M. Best. The rating is a reflection of the immense financial security and stability that LABC Warranty enjoys as part of the HSB family, and offers confidence to our customers that ten years of cover means we'll be right here for you and your residents for the full decade.