by Brianna Crandall — February 15, 2012—CIBSE (The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers), a U.K.-based professional body that supports building services engineers around the world, presented its Building Performance Awards for 2012 on February 8 in London. Rewarding excellence in sustainable and aspirational buildings, the awards are designed to raise industry standards by recognizing those who are designing and managing the U.K.’s most sustainable and innovative projects and products.
The CIBSE Building Performance Awards showcase the best examples of actual low-carbon performance in practice (measured performance rather than design intent), allied to excellence in the design, construction, and operation of buildings of all types.
The University of Bradford was crowned Carbon Champion of the Year for 2012. The University carried out a sustained and comprehensive program of energy efficiency that not only reversed their buildings’ previous trend of rising energy use and emissions, but reduced it by eight percent since the start of the program in 2005. The University also won the Client of the Year award.
The complete list of winners is as follows:
- Training for Building Performance: Norland Managed Services (Energy Matters Training)
- Building Services Consultancy of the Year: AECOM
- Energy-using Product Award: COOL-PHASE low-energy cooling and ventilation system (Monodraught Ltd)
- Passive (energy related) Product of the Year: RACUS Ceiling Tile (Datum Phase Change Ltd)
- Commissioning Project of the Year: The Darling Quarter project, Sydney (Norman Disney & Young)
- Low Carbon Consultant of the Year: Andrew Gardner
- Collaborative Working Award: Harrods
- Client Energy Management Award: British Land
- New Build Project of the Year (Private Sector) : Brockholes Visitors Centre, Preston (Max Fordham)
- New Build Project of the Year (Public Sector) : John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Max Fordham)
- Refurbishment Project Award: Angel Building, London (Norman Disney & Young)
- Contractor of the Year: Imtech Aqua Ltd
- Building Operation Award: Transport for London [TfL]
- Client of the Year: University of Bradford
- Carbon Champion of the Year: University of Bradford
- Building Services Consultancy of the Year: AECOM
