building performance awards winners 2015 engineers told: just go for it! Ken Shuttleworth made an impassioned plea to engineers to shout louder about their work, as CIBSE recognised the cream of the industry at its annual awards. Liza Young reports M &G Real Estate was crowned Carbon Champion at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2015 for slicing energy use across 500,000m2 of its shopping centre portfolio. The firm also picked up the Energy Management Award after cutting energy by 23% at ten shopping centres including a 24% reduction at Manchester Arndale which equates to a total saving of 21,152 MWh and 985,000. The awards presentation followed a rousing speech by leading architect Ken Shuttleworth, who urged building services engineers to take more credit for their skills. He told the 700-strong audience that they could make a difference. Never has there been a more exciting time to be an engineer. The timing is perfect for you to come out of the shadows and make your voices heard. The planet needs you just go for it. Mitch Layng, portfolio energy manager at M&G Real Estate, said to come away as the carbon champion was beyond our dreams. He went on: Being an engineer from a very young age, its something Ive always aimed for, and to achieve the award is Industry celebrates CIBSE Building Performance Awards Aecom was crowned Building Services Consultancy of the Year (over 100 employees) almost the pinnacle of my career. Its also very important for the company because our investors quite often ask for green credentials now, and this demonstrates how green we are. Layng said some quick and easy wins were made with the portfolio through improved management and metering, installing inverter controls on pumps, and LED lighting. The main lessons learned are [you have] to get under the skin of the buildings to actually understand how they CIBSE President Peter Kinsella Beca with the International Project of the Year Award Carbon Champion M&G Real Estate eor Rmade winners at a glance operate, to make sure you collect enough data to understand the performance of the building, analyse that data and then benchmark and set targets. He added that teamwork had achieved the award. Its important that we have collaboration between all the parties involved, from the investment and asset managers within M&G Real Estate to our partners who do the facilities management. But it was Aecom that stole the show at the Grosvenor House ceremony, in central London, winning three awards, including Collaborative Working Partnership, Building Services Consultancy of the Year (over 100 employees) and New Build Project of the Year (value up to 10m). URS (now Aecom) also took the New Build Project of the Year (value over 10m) crown for The Quadrant:MK home of Network Rail. Mike Starbuck, technical director at URS, said: We should be encouraged to strive to achieve better standards. With each year we see the bar being raised and as consultants its important that people view us at the cutting-edge of excellence as we look at new ways of trying to achieve better things, better standards and more efficient buildings. He said the main challenge during the project was dealing with such a large client with many stakeholders, who all had their own particular requirements. More than 700 people attended the awards Shuttleworth told engineers to stand up to architects Ant Wilson, director at Aecom, added: Its fantastic to be highlighted in so many categories and because of our link with URS to get four awards in one evening at such a great event is amazing. Wilson said engineers could really make a difference to combating climate change at the low energy side of the industry. Engineers have an important part to play to come up with buildings that use substantially less energy and are better for the environment. To be acknowledged for that by your peers to other parts of the industry not just the engineering elements in terms of the value we can add to projects. He added: Lighting has gone in leaps and bounds in recent years, partly driven by energy, partly by rules and requirements for Part L, and thats inspired the industry to be more creative and put pressure on itself to satisfy that demand. Other notable winners included BCM (Beverley Clifton Morris), which retained its Building Consultancy of the Year (up to 100 employees) title, and Becas artesian heating and cooling system at Christchurch Airport, which won International Project of the Year. Brian Morris, managing director at BCM, said that ongoing collaboration and teamwork were going to take the firm from a regional business to a national one. Were making inroads into London at present and we expect to have a serious London office in the next 12 months, so were not finished yet were all about growth, he said. Justin Hill, technical director at Beca, said the CIBSE accolade was the primo award in the building services industry. We need to celebrate success as an industry, and we need to use these awards and these projects to inspire the younger We represented the M&E services an area that can be regarded as a little unglamorous, so it was a case of getting the point across successfully so they could understand exactly what they were getting in the building. Starbuck said the handover process posed many potential problems; for instance, the client was moving into a naturally ventilated building from one that was air-conditioned. It was important that we spent time educating the occupiers about the environment into which they would be moving. That process was very well-thought out and we were pleased to see conditions being achieved that were exactly as [outlined in] the design intent. and the calibre of the judging panel is fantastic. He added that the Collaborative Working Partnership Award for Aecoms work with the BBC was a real accolade. The future of the industry comes down to working together, understanding what the client wants and trying to get in their shoes to deliver something thats of excellence to them. This year, 15 trophies were presented at the ceremony hosted by BBC business reporter Steph McGovern, including two new awards Lighting for Building Performance and Building Control Systems. The judges found it so hard to split the lighting entries that for the first time in the awards history the category had joint winners: Sainsburys Project Graphite and Cundall Birmingham. Craig Winter, building services partner at Cundall, said: I think the CIBSE awards are critical to celebrating our successes, and its very important that we highlight that and get the message across generation and fire up some passion in them to become building services engineers. I always say although I get shot down on occasions that building services is the only engineering discipline that can save the world. Hill said that despite 11,000 earthquakes in New Zealand, the project was completed almost on time and within 1% of the budget. Its artesian heating and cooling system, which uses aquifer water that runs beneath Canterbury, as a heat sink or heat source, was so successful that Beca is retrofitting it to the airports existing international terminal. Another star of the show was guest speaker Ken Shuttleworth, of Make Architects, who delighted the crowd by telling them to stand up to pain-in-thearse architects who had been kings of the castle for far too long. He said: I am a rebel architect and I know that you do all the work and make the architects look good. Its unfair, and its time for that to change. Tell the architects when they try to call the shots to sod off. He said the mission to put Man on the moon, and the engineers behind Concorde, were inspirational in his youth, and called for the building industry to be as innovative as its aerospace counterpart. The massive reality of climate change is our catalyst, he said. There was a time when engineers were world-renowned. Whos todays equivalent? Dyson? Celebrity architects or starchitects have taken over with their dazzling shirts and big watches and big, pointy, shiny buildings, he said. You should stand up to them and tell them what they do not want to hear. Whats the worst that can happen? At least you get to save the planet. Click here for more from Shuttleworths speech. cJ winners at a glance Carbon Champion, sponsored by Remeha Commercial M&G Real Estate Shopping Centre Portfolio M&G Real Estate Energy Saving Product of the Year, sponsored by Spirotech TurboChill chiller with low GWP refrigerant R1234ze (200-1360kW) Airedale International Air Conditioning Building Control System Award, sponsored by Spie Barclays Operational Control Centre (BOCC) Barclays Bank Lighting for Building Performance Award (joint winners) Cundall Birmingham Cundall Light4 and ProjectGraphite, LED lighting programme Sainsburys Supermarkets Building Performance Training Programme Award, sponsored by Vaillant Commercial Systems Data centre risk and energy reduction programme and data centre client requirements workshops Operational Intelligence/Entel Chile Collaborative Working Partnership Award The team behind Broadcasting House, London Aecom Building Services Consultancy of the Year (up to 100 employees), sponsored by beeby anderson recruitment BCM (Beverley Clifton Morris) Building Services Consultancy of the Year (over 100 employees), sponsored by Andrews Water Heaters Aecom Refurbishment Project of the Year (value up to 5m), sponsored by CIBSE Patrons Westborough Academy zero carbon masterplan refurbishment project, Westcliff-on-Sea OR Consulting Engineers Refurbishment Project of the Year (value over 5m) Premier House, Twickenham Flatt Consulting New Build Project of the Year (value up to 10m) Stratford Library, University of East London, London Aecom New Build Project of the Year (value over 10m), sponsored by Daikin The Quadrant:MK, Milton Keynes URS International Project of the Year, sponsored by cooltherm Christchurch Airport artesian heating and cooling, Christchurch, New Zealand Beca Facilities Management Operations Award, sponsored by Gratte Brothers International Commerce Centre (ICC), Hong Kong Kai Shing Management Services Energy Management Award, sponsored by Imtech M&G Real Estate Shopping Centre Portfolio M&G Real Estate