by Brianna Crandall — March 23, 2016—The U.K.-based Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) recently announced its 2016 CIBSE Building Performance Awards, which are said to reward “real and measured building performance, not promises and plans,” thus indicating “who is making a real difference in fighting climate change.” Five new categories were introduced this year to reflect the level of diversity in the entries and to better recognize individual achievement.
Waterman Building Services, the company behind Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, scooped both the coveted Building Performance Champion Award, for demonstrating what the judges felt was the most outstanding contribution and commitment to achieving improved building performance, as well as the new Project of the Year – Leisure category, which recognizes high levels of user satisfaction and comfort while delivering outstanding measured building performance in a new or refurbished building.
The judges were reportedly impressed at the technical skill displayed by Waterman in maintaining comfort in a challenging environment with exacting acoustic requirements — demonstrating the ability to dissipate over 115 kW of internal gains while maintaining internal air quality, limiting noise from the busy city-center environment and minimizing noise within the theatre.
Waterman Building Services, the company behind Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, won both the coveted Building Performance Champion Award and the new Project of the Year – Leisure category.
Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre was completely re-built and re-opened in 2014, replacing the much-renovated 1837 building originally opened as a Dissenters’ chapel. The new theatre was praised for its sympathetic design as a much-loved community fixture, and for its sustainability credentials, having re-used 90 percent of the previous structure’s material. Everyman Theatre was also the 2014 Stirling Prize winner; this marked the first time that a Stirling Winner also won double at the CIBSE Awards.
Other high-achievers for the night included Beverley Clifton Morris (BCM), which was once again named best Building Services Consultancy under 100 employees. It is the only company to have won this award three years in a row.
The full list of award winners at the 2016 CIBSE Building Performance Awards follows:
- Building Performance Champion / Project of the Year – Leisure (inaugural): Everyman Theatre, Liverpool — Waterman Building Services
- Building Services Consultancy of the Year (up to 100 employees): Beverley Clifton Morris (BCM)
- Building Services Consultancy of the Year (over 100 employees): Hoare Lea
- Facilities Management Team Award: Sirius Building, Canberra, Australia — Mirvac Group
- Energy Saving Product of the Year: EndoTherm — Endo Enterprises (U.K.)
- Building Performance Training Programme Award: Building Services Explained for VolkerFitzpatrick Site Teams — VolkerFitzpatrick
- Collaborative Working Partnership Award: John Lewis, York — IES / John Lewis / Lateral Technologies and Solutions / Next Control Systems
- Energy Management Initiative Award: British Land Portfolio Energy Reduction Programme — British Land
- Lighting for Building Performance Award: WWF – Living Planet Centre, Woking — Atelier Ten
- Project of the Year – Commercial / Industrial (inaugural): 50 Shakespeare Street Refurbishment, Nottingham — Nottingham Trent University
- Project of the Year – Public Use (inaugural): Wilkinson Primary School, Wolverhampton — Architype with E3 Consulting
- Project of the Year – Residential (inaugural): Clapham Retrofit, London — Arboreal Architecture
- Project of the Year – International: David and Lucile Packard Foundation Headquarters, California, USA — Elementa Consulting (member of Integral Group)
