Three organisations
were double-winners at this year’s CIBSE Building Performance Awards, with the
results announced at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
Organised by the
Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, the awards focus on the
delivered actual performance outcomes achieved by buildings and projects and
not on design stage promises.
The University of
Oxford won the coveted Building Performance Champion title and 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 were
impressed with the programme’s wide-ranging stakeholder engagement which has
resulted in a host of collaborative initiatives and new carbon-saving
partnerships being developed between staff, students, the City Council and
industry. They 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”.
Elementa Consulting
and BuroHappold Engineering were the evening’s other double winners. Elementa
Consulting took the Building Performance Consultancy (up to 100 employees) and
the International Project of the Year awards for its engineering design of an
ultra-low energy laboratory at Pomona College, California, USA. BuroHappold
Engineering triumphed in the Building Performance Consultancy (over 1000
employees) category and won the Energy Efficient Product or Innovation category
for its NewMass cooling system.
Other 2018 CIBSE
Building Performance Awards winners include: Architype,BDP, Choice Housing
Ireland, Energy Action, Landsec, Max Fordham, NPS North West, Q-Bot and
Willmott Dixon.
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. I
praise the good work of all the finalists and winners and encourage others to
follow their lead.”
The full list of
winners at the 2018 CIBSE Building Performance Awards is:
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
Visit the website to download the 2018
Winners Brochure and find out more about this year’s winners.
The CIBSE Building Performance Awards
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. Entries are open to any
organisation, both within the UK and internationally, that is responsible for
the design, commissioning, construction, installation and operation of low
energy buildings and the manufacturers whose products enable efficient energy
consumption. The 2019 Awards will open for entries on Monday 21st May 2018.
Judged by a panel of
distinguished industry leaders, winners of the Awards are acknowledged as best
in class. The 2018 Awards headline sponsor is Baxi Heating, category
sponsors are ABB, CIBSE Patrons, CMR. Conex Banninger, Flakt Group, Gratte Brothers,
Imtech, Lochinar and Viega, and are in association with the CIBSE Journal.
