A look back at the International Housing and Home Warranty Association (IHHWA) hosted in Calgary.
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.