Howard Chapman, Buildingtalk Editor.
Last night I joined 700 guests at Grosvenor House on Park Lane in London for a special evening to celebrate the 2018 CIBSE Building Performance Awards. It was also a great opportunity to hear sustainability pioneer Julie Hailes MBE who was the guest speaker.
The CIBSE Building Performance Awards recognise the people, products and projects that demonstrate engineering excellence in the built environment.
They are the only industry Awards that focus on actual, measured performance outcomes, not just design intent or performance specifications.
The overall winner at the Awards was The University of Oxford, winning the coveted Building Performance Champion title along with the Facilities Management Team of the Year. Both awards were for its ambitious Carbon Reduction Programme which sets out to reduce the university’s direct carbon emissions by 33% by 2020 against a 2005/6 baseline.
The judges said: “The University of Oxford is leading the way for the higher education sector, not only in the global rankings of universities, but in the management of their extensive and diverse estate”.
Congratulations from Buildingtalk to all the winners at the 2018 CIBSE Building Performance Awards.
You can visit www.cibse/org/bpa to download the 2018 Winners Brochure and find out more about this year’s winners, listed below.
Building Performance Champion
University of Oxford Carbon Reduction Programme – University of Oxford
Building Performance Consultancy (up to 100 employees)
Elementa Consulting
Building Performance Consultancy (101-1000 employees)
BDP
Building Performance Consultancy (over 1000 employees)
BuroHappold Engineering
Collaborative Working Partnership
The NEDO (New Energy & Industrial Technology Development Organization) Project – NPS North West
Learning and Development
Sustainability Matters – Landsec
Highly Commended: Net Zero Buildings offsite construction tour/Redmoor Academy’s Schoolhause grand opening – Net Zero Buildings
Energy Management Initiative
Beyond the 6 Star NABERS Barrier, Melbourne, Australia – Energy Action
Facilities Management Team
University of Oxford Carbon Reduction Programme – University of Oxford
Energy Efficient Product or Innovation
NewMass – BuroHappold Engineering
Energy Saving Product or Innovation
Q-Floor – Q-Bot
Project of the Year – Commercial/ Industrial
The Enterprise Centre – Architype/BDP
Highly Commended: David Attenborough Building (Cambridge Conservation Initiative offices) – BuroHappold Engineering
Project of the Year – Leisure
Oriam – Max Fordham
Project of the Year – Public Use
Centre for Medicine, University of Leicester – Willmott Dixon
Highly Commended: Windmill Community Campus – Fife Council – Property Services
Project of the Year – Residential
Killynure Green, Carryduff – Choice Housing Ireland.
Project of the Year – International
Pomona: Ultra-Low Energy Lab Eliminates Performance Gap, California, USA – Elementa Consulting
CIBSE President Peter Y Wong said: “The CIBSE Building Performance Awards increasingly stand for ethical, sustainable and environmentally sound business. Those organisations who take their commitment to energy management and WELL Building seriously should be championed and their examples followed by others.”
The 2019 Awards will open for entries on Monday 21st May 2018.
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