Meet our Award Winning Exhibitors! 🏆

Harvey, Phil & Gareth from the NSBRC Team recently attended the annual Build It Awards, hosted at London’s Hilton Bankside Hotel in November. This event celebrates every aspect of homebuilding and improving, including finished projects, products & services - and is the most coveted accolade in the self build and renovation industry.

The Awards bring together key industry figures, architects, manufacturers & suppliers in recognition of innovation and excellence, which includes a number of NSBRC exhibiting partners.

We are delighted to have once again sponsored this wonderful evening, and enjoyed celebrating as a number of our brilliant partners collected their well deserved awards for their outstanding products and services.

Read on to find out which of our partners took home the prizes!

Best Self Build Under £300k: Scandinavian Homes for a family log home
Best Sustainable Technology or Product: Catnic for SolarSeam
Best Underfloor Heating Innovation: Nu-Heat for Nu-Deck
Best Home Technology Product or Installation: Gartec for the Aritco HomeLift Compact Platform lift
Best Roofing System or Product: TeleBeam for Telebeam
Best Casement Windows: Rationel for Aura Plus
Best Sash Windows: Roseview Windows for Ultimate Rose
Best Heat Pump: Kensa Heat Pumps for the Shoebox NX Ground Source Heat Pump
Best Glazed Doors: EcoHaus for the Internorm HS330 Sliding Doors

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New Partners & Upgraded Stands Edition

We are proud to introduce some of our newest exhibitors and fresh, upgraded stands at the Centre. Our partners are experts in self build and renovation, and are highly engaged in this community. Visit our upcoming events to meet them and explore their amazing displays!

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Seize the Moment: Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Self Build Your Dream Home

We received this blog from longstanding exhibitor, Fleming Homes and found the piece inspiring, and wanted to share this with you. We hope this offers encouragement as you embark on your homebuilding project.

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect." Alan Cohen*

Alan Cohen's quote captures a powerful truth that’s particularly relevant to self-building. When the housing market feels uncertain, when interest rates continue to feel elevated in comparison with the record lows of 2020-2021, or when material prices fluctuate, it’s tempting to put the brakes on our plans - to hold off until things calm down.

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The Homebuilding Centre Limited - now majority owned by its employees!

Since 2014, our award-winning visitor centre (The National Self Build & Renovation Centre / NSBRC) has been owned and operated by ‘The Homebuilding Centre Limited’, an employee-owned business. We welcomed our first visitors to the NSBRC in 2007 and, eighteen years on, we remain the UK’s only permanent exhibition centre designed specifically to meet the needs of individual self-builders, renovators and home improvers.

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