The Lead Contractors Association (LCA)
Supported at The Roofing Awards by ASSOCIATED LEAD MILLS (ALM) (Sponsors of the Murdoch Award)

Specialist Roofing - Fully Supported Metal

Company Name: Longworth
Project Name: St Michaels & All Angels Church, Kirkby
Project description: A new build church using VM Natural Zinc Plus and VM Pigmento Blue Zinc Plus

• The contractor was approached for their expertise in this local project, greatly important to the surrounding community
• The contractor undertook the complete build-up of the roof from the structural deck outwards and employed a variety of skills through both design & build stages to deliver a sound roofing system with a traditional zinc finish

Company Name: O’Brien Roofing & Leadworks Ltd
Project Name: Chideock Manor Church, Dorset
Project description: Lead works on lantern to library using Calder Lead

• This was an intricate and detailed project which required exceptional skills, knowledge and experience of how to work with lead

Company Name: Cladding Services (Eastern) Ltd
Project Name: Highrising Flyingthorpe, North Yorkshire
Project description: New detached house with separate annexe and double garage. Main roof covering, was installed using MetSeam MS Pro pre-weathered zinc standing seam

• The pre-weathered Zintec provided the requirement for a subtle blending of both local planning authority and the North Yorkshire Moors Parks department
• The roof system had to be able to withstand easterly winds driving directly from the North Sea up the hill, which can reach up to and exceed 80 mph
• The client wished to have a clean and crisp line on the verge edge. Therefore the contractor modified the details to utilize a full length roof panel

The Lead Contractors Association (LCA)
Supported at The Roofing Awards by ASSOCIATED LEAD MILLS (ALM) (Sponsors of the Murdoch Award)

Since 1996, the members of the Lead Contractors Association have vied for what quickly became regarded as the ultimate accolade in leadwork excellence – the Murdoch Award. Open to all members of the LCA using rolled sheet to BSEN12588 or traditional sand cast sheet, entries for the Murdoch Award competition demonstrate the very best design and workmanship examples of lead in roofing and cladding.

All entries are scrutinised by a judging panel, firstly looking in detail at photographs and site reports to establish a shortlist that require a further roof top examination by a member of the panel. Eventually three finalists are selected, from which an overall winner is chosen through a final assessment involving Dick Murdoch himself. The winner is first announced at the LCA Annual Conference.

Since 2004, the Murdoch Award has been sponsored by Associated Lead Mills, as a further demonstration of their support for the LCA’s promotion of quality standards. In 2006, ALM introduced the Murdoch Sponsors Award, to enable the judging panel to also recognise the smaller project (below 5 tonnes) which, whilst not perhaps containing the same wide variety and complexity of detailing as some of the larger entries, nevertheless had been carried out to an extraordinary standard. The LCA, again supported by Associated Lead Mills, are proud to be one of the sponsors for the Annual Congress Awards, where the Murdoch Award and Murdoch Sponsors Award will again be presented.