The Early Learning Village, Singapore; the Musee d’Arts de Nantes;
and the National Gallery of Ireland are just three of the entries shortlisted
for the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Building
Performance Awards 2019.
These prestigious awards recognise the teams, products, innovations,
initiatives and projects that demonstrate engineering excellence in the built
environment.
Crucially, these are the only built environment awards that focus on
actual, in-use measured performance of the completed project, rather than on
projections or the design intent.
This year’s awards feature fourteen highly contested categories
including: Building Performance Engineer; Building Performance Consultancy;
Energy Management Initiative; and Project of the Year - International.
Now in their twelfth year, the awards are judged by a panel of
experts and industry leaders from a number of complementary spheres within the
built environment. The wide range of high quality entries submitted this year
made the judges task particularly challenging and often resulted in
considerable debate in order to arrive at the shortlist of potential winners
for some categories.
Hywel Davies, Technical Director of CIBSE, chaired the judging. He
said: “all those on the shortlist have demonstrated a significant contribution
and commitment to achieving improved building performance, either as
individuals or as part of a team, which has resulted in clear and measureable
reduction of energy consumption and carbon emissions.”
The quality of the entries means that this
year’s competition was extremely closely contested. The winners will be
announced at the special awards dinner taking place on 12 February 2019 at the
Grosvenor House in London. To book at table at the event go to:www.cibse.org/bpa
