From 8 to 10 September 2025, Canada hosted this international meeting bringing together experts in home warranty insurance and housebuilding from around the world to share best practice, challenges and opportunities for new home warranty providers and compare approaches to the changing nature of homebuilding and wider innovations.

The agenda included discussions on the Canadian Housing industry, international comparisons of warranty and insurance cover in new home building, the global and local economic situation and the impact of tariffs. Discussions were also held on AI and its potential applications for the housing industry and warranty providers. Other topics included building codes and standards with a focus on sustainability regulations and net zero, an overview of systemic claims events in history and wider roundtable discussions on the challenges and opportunities facing warranty providers.

A huge thank you to all participants at the IHHWA meeting for their fantastic contributions, and particular thanks to John Kozole, Chairman of the Canadian Home Warranty Council and Byron Moore of Alberta New Home Warranty Programme for organising the event for the IHHWA.

Companies attended:

• Canada – Canadian Home Warranty Council
• Canada – Alberta New Home Warranty Programme
• Canada — New Home Warranty Program of Manitoba
• Canada —Canadian Home Builders Association
• Canada — Atlantic Home Warranty
• Canada — Travelers Canada
• Canada — Tarion Warranty Corporation
• Canada — Garantie de construction Residentielle
• Canada — WBI Home Warranty
• Canada — Intact Insurance Company
• Canada — Progressive Home Warranty
• Canada — Hub Warranty
• Canada — Trisura Insurance Guarantee Company
• Canada — Aviva Canada
• United Kingdom — NHBC
• United Kingdom —Premier Guarantee
• United States — PWSC
• Ireland —HomeBond
• Netherlands — SWK | Garantie- en waarborgregelingen in de bouw
• Belgium & Luxembourg —Woningborg

During this visit, the IHHWA also:

• Met with the developer, Homespace, to discuss conversion of a former vacant office building to 80 units of affordable housing and other support services for clients and the community
• Met with Attainable Housing Corp (AHC) to discuss an 84-unit affordable housing factory-built project
• Met AHC to discuss 70-unit affordable housing project (conventional timber build)
• Visited ATCO modular homes factory for a showcase of their modular housing production facilities
• Toured of Promise Robotics latest 60,000-square-foot facility set to bring expanded deployment of housing production with AI-driven robots that can produce up to 1,000,000 square feet of housing annually, giving homebuilders easy-to-use technology to produce homes faster, more efficiently and sustainably — harnessing Promise Robotics’ AI brain and robotic tooling to address housing shortages across Canada and the United States.

Further meetings will be held in 2026, and discussions are already taking place to plan these.

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From 8 to 10 October 2024, NHBC hosted this international meeting bringing together experts in home warranty insurance and housebuilding from around the world to share best practice, challenges and opportunities for new home warranty providers and compare approaches to the changing nature of homebuilding and wider innovations.

The agenda included discussions on global housing markets, economic outlooks, Insurance and reinsurance approaches, with external speakers presenting on the ten-year liability insurance around the world. Technical risk management and improving construction quality through data and NHBC’s training and consultancy approach, and climate change impacts and opportunities and how insurers can adapt in response to the physical and transition risks for housebuilding. A huge thank you to all participants at the IHHWA meeting for that fantastic contributions:

• Canada — John Kozole (Saskatchewan Home Warranty ), Byron Moore, Peter Gogich C.E.T. (Alberta New Home Warranty Program)
• United States — Paul Weckerly, Lindsay Tingler (PWSC)
• Ireland — Conor Taaffe, Colm McKernan (HomeBond)
• Netherlands — Nico Barendse (SWK | Garantie- en waarborgregelingen in de bouw)
• United Kingdom — David Swigciski, Craig Ross (Premier Guarantee)
• Japan — Mayumi Izumi (Foundation for Housing Warranty)
• France – Capucine Bernon
• Belgium & Luxembourg – Michel Van Droogenbroek

NHBC during this visit also visited British Offsite Limited for a tour of their innovative factory and showcasing their products on site at Weston Homes’ Abbey Quay development.

Further meetings will be held in 2025 and discussions are already in planning for the next one.

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13th & 14th August 2015
The Queen Room, Sofitel Legend Grand,
OudezijdsVoorburgwal 197, 1012, Amsterdam

Thursday 13th August

• 13.00pm – 18.00pm : Members private meetings (set up individually between members)

• 19.00pm – 19.30pm : IHHWA Association Dinner

Friday 14th August

• 9.00am : Welcome and introductions – Lewis Sidnick, Chair IHHWA

• 9.05am : Feedback on IHHWA (our objectives) – Lewis Sidnick, NHBC – UK

• 9.30am : 2017 New Home Warranty Research – Japan and UK
  • Update of IHHWC 2017
• 10.30am : Coffee

• 10.45am : Technical Quality Screening and Control (elaborate plan screening and building site inspections. Within the Woningborg group a new service product carried out by a newly established legal entity, next to our warranty business) – Maurice Klaver, Woningborg Group – Netherlands

• 11.45am : Holland Warranty Market:
  • SWK, Presentation on products – Mr Gerald Kerkman, HDI-Gerling
  • New Products and Re-insurance – Leendert Maris, Woningborg Group – Netherlands

• 12.45pm : Lunch

• 13.30pm : Emerging Issues (group discussion)
  • Impact of housing growth on our businesses – e.g. quality, customer satisfaction, capital and regulatory compliance
  • Claim – loss ratios, open debate on European/international models

• 15.00pm : Coffee

• 15.15pm : Presentation by South Korea on new home warranty market – South Korea – Korea Housing & Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG)

• 16.00pm : Insurance Regulation from the EU – Samantha Seewoosurran – Brussels

• 17.00pm : Next IHHWA meeting and any other business

• 17.15pm : Close

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