CIBSE announced the shortlist at the close of day one at CIBSE Build2Perform Live 2024 on 13 November at London ExCeL, spotlighting the inspiring projects, innovations, and leaders driving sustainable transformation in the built environment.
The 2025 awards introduce two new categories, Client of the Year and Leadership, reflecting CIBSE’s commitment to recognising the influential role of clients in setting ambitious sustainability standards and the leadership driving continuous improvement within the industry.
From individual new build homes to portfolio decarbonisation strategies, digital innovations and embodied carbon solutions to projects prioritising air quality, thermal comfort, and occupant wellbeing, this year’s shortlisted entries showcase an impressive range of efforts to improve building performance and support the UK’s net-zero ambitions.
Julie Godefroy, Chair of Judges and CIBSE’s Head of Net Zero Policy, commented: "The calibre of entries this year is truly outstanding, demonstrating the industry's unwavering commitment to advancing building performance and sustainability. The introduction of the 'Client of the Year' and 'Leadership' categories highlights the pivotal role of visionary and dedicated clients and leaders in driving the transformation towards a net-zero, high-performance built environment."
The winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony on 27 February, and industry professionals are invited to join us in celebrating these accomplishments.
The awards ceremony will take place at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London. Bookings are now open at cibse.org/BPA.
Below is the full shortlist for the 2025 awards:
Best Digital Innovation - Organisational Strategy
- Building Performance Dashboard - Buro Happold
- Cyclops - Foster + Partners
- Daisy Chain - AtkinsRéalis
- Paper to Digital Data - Central London Operations & UK Engineering
Best Digital Innovation - Project Delivery
- Collaboration: The Key to Unlocking the Value of Digitisation - AstraZeneca
- Paper Trails to Digital Triumphs - Savills
- PHabric - QODA Consulting
- SimQIT - Simulation Quality and Insights Tracker - Atelier Ten
- Sydney Airport International Terminal T1 Chilled Water Plant Optimisation - A.G. Coombs Group, Exergenics
Building Performance Consultancy (up to 50 employees)
Sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric
- Horizon M&E Services Design
- Sustainable Construction Services
Building Performance Consultancy (51 - 300 employees)
Sponsored by Airflow
Building Performance Consultancy (over 300 employees)
Sponsored by ABB
CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award - Products and Systems: for Manufacturers and Suppliers
CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award - Services and Projects: for Consultants
Sponsored by CMR
Client of the Year
- Legal and General Investment Management
- London Borough of Islington
Collaboration
- 20 Fenchurch St Building Performance Optimisation - AECOM
- LGIM’s Symphony Model - Legal & General Investment Management
- Unifying Innovation: Cutting Office Energy Use Through Collaboration - Weil, Gotshal & Manges, London
Engineer of the Year
Sponsored by Ideal Heating Commercial
- Harry Sharples, Principal Building Performance Engineer - AECOM
- Nabil Cook, Technical Director - OMEGA Solutions
- Netza Jack, Head of Building Performance & Environment - Man Group
- Steve Hilton, Regional Engineering Manager - Savills
- Volkan Doda, Head of Design Technologies - Atelier Ten
Facilities Management
Sponsored by Gratte Brothers Group
- 20 Fenchurch Street - Savills
- Department for Work and Pensions - Mitie
- MoD, Permanent Joint Operations Base, Infrastructure Support Provider, Ascension Island - Mitie Defence International
- Portfolio managed by Helix, a Hines Company - Demand Logic
- Savills Portfolio - Smart Managed Solutions
- Workspace Group Portfolio - Workspace Group
Leadership
- Andy Jackson, Head of Central London Operations & UK Engineering - Savills
- Kuram Gwakyaa, Head of Sustainability - Mitie
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Learning and Development
- Building a Sustainable Future: Leadership Training for Environmental Excellence - Webuild SpA
- Building Safety Act - Training and Assessment - Hoare Lea
- From Prison to Property - Savills
- The ZERO Internship Programme - University of Oxford
Product or Innovation of the Year - Air Quality
- Acuity Central Connectivity System - Monodraught
- Data Led Air Handling Control - Savills
- Sensedge Mini Indoor Air Quality Monitor - Kaiterra
- Vent-Axia Lo-Carbon Sentinel Econiq - Vent-Axia
Product or Innovation of the Year - Thermal Comfort
- Heat3D - Rapid in-situ measurement of U-values - Build Test Solutions
- In Ground retrofit under floorheating - JK floorheating
- Mixergy iHP X integrated heat pump cylinder - Mixergy
- NIBE S735 Exhaust Air Heat Pump - NIBE
- Optimum Air Conditioning System - EcoTechX
- Passive Cooling Double-skin Roof - Universidad de Sevilla
- Zehnder ComfoAir Q600 with ComfoClime - Zehnder Group UK
Product or Innovation of the Year - Wellbeing
- Zehnder ComfoAir Q with ComfoClime - Zehnder Group UK
Project of the Year Awards
Sponsored by Crane Fluid Systems
Residential
- Agar Grove 1b - Max Fordham
- Brambles - Bere Architects
- Lucy Cavendish College: Student Accommodation - Max Fordham
Retrofit Workplaces
- Reading International Business Park - Twin & Earth
- The Burrell Collection - Atelier Ten
- The Entopia Building - Max Fordham, Architype & BDP
- Tower Hamlets Town Hall - Atelier Ten
New Build Workplaces
- Globe Point, Temple - Hoare Lea
- Woodcote Grove Redevelopment - AtkinsRéalis
Portfolio Workplaces
- Aldar Energy Retrofit Project - grfn
- Cathedral Hill Industrial Estate,13 units - SRE
- Savills & Sentinll Decarbonisation Project - Savills
