CIBSE NEWS Awards single out excellence in digital engineering Leaders in digital engineering were recognised at the Society of Digital Engineering (SDE) awards, held at Build2Perform Live in November. The awards recognise innovation, leadership and bestpractice in the discipline of digitalengineering. SLC Lavalin Atkins was the overall Digital Engineering Champion for its consistent application of high-quality digital design. This was also recognised in the Best Process and Application category, for its Digital Blueprint technology. Buro Happold took the award in the Innovation category, which looked for groundbreaking ideas, for its Single Analysis Model. The firms Michal Dengusiak was named Best Digital Engineer for his work in exploiting a wide range of data and interpretive tools to help the company streamline its business and reveal insights to drive improved building design. Rowan Crowley, CIBSE Services MD, said: The awards give us the opportunity to single out examples of excellence in this fast-moving sector. Visit www.cibse.org/sde for the full list of winners. CIBSE Ireland celebrates 50th anniversary Awards also presented for excellence inbuilding services engineering CIBSE Irelands 50th anniversary celebration dinner and awards night took place in November, when CIBSE President Stephen Lisk paid tribute to its members for their commitment to the industry. Three project awards for excellence in building services engineering were also presented on the night: The Up to 2m Project award was won by consultants Arup and contractor Airflow Services, for the fit-out of One Albert Quay, Cork the first Well certified office in Ireland The Between 2m and 5m Project From left: Kevin Kelly, CIBSE vice-president; Colin Moynihan, of Airflow Services; Jen Kennedy, of Arup; Mona Holtktter, CIBSE Ireland vice-chair; Derek Elton, of Wilo; and John Burgess, of Arup, collecting the Up to 2m Project award award went to consultants Homan OBrien Associates and contractor Jones Engineering Group, for the Irish Life Building, Beresford Place, Dublin The 5m and over Project award was wonby consultants JV Tierney & Co, for the Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin, which has an active twin-skin faade, night cooling and low-energy displacement ventilation. CIBSE Ireland presented a cheque for 14,000 to the Capuchin Day centre, a charity set up to offer breakfast and dinner to homeless people in Ireland. It would like to thank the committee members for their dedication in organising the awards and dinner, as well as all those who attended and for their continued support over the past 50 years. An annual golf day, sponsored by Grundfos, was also held to mark the anniversary, and took place at Luttrellstown Castle in September. The event attracted a huge turnout, with 25 teams supporting the day. CIBSE Ireland also held a near zero energy buildings (nZEB) CPD for more than 400 building professionals around the country, led by CIBSE members Orla Coyle, of SEAI, and Eoin Doohan, of Aecom. CIBSE technical director Hywel Davies also gave a talk on potential changes to the Building Regulations in light of the Grenfell Tower disaster. Chapman BDSPs China project wins BSG prize Chapman BDSP was crowned overall winner of the CIBSE Building Simulation Group prize, awarded at Build2Perform Live in November. There were 26 entries on building simulation and modelling, with six shortlisted for live presentations at the event. The quality was exceptionally high, and the judges awarded two runner-up awards and one overall winner. Head judge Darren Coppins was impressed with the state-of-the-art modelling and simulation tools and techniques used. ChapmanBDSP presented modelling created for the Shenzhen World Exhibition Conference Centre in China. The judges were particularly impressed by the different forms of modelling on this large project, which challenged the modellers to question methods to achieve the best outcomes. They also used simulation tools to represent graphically the results, to overcome language barriers. ChapmanBDSPs fast-paced and inspiring presentation covered a significant amount of detail, and held the audiences attention. Shikha Bhardwaj, of ChapmanBDSP, said: The CIBSE BSG Award is as an amazing platform to showcase the current ways of using computer simulation tools to inform building design on numerous scales. Thank you to CIBSE BSG for organising this event and team ChapmanBDSP for all the hard work. The runners-up prizes were awarded to Ramboll, for its entry delivered by Santeri Siren, and Hodkinson Consultancy, for its presentation by Vasiliki Kourgiozou. The shortlisted presentations and winners blogs are available at www.cibse.org/bsg From left: Nick Hopper, Monodraught; Niall Gibson, IES; Dave Cocking, DesignBuilder; Alan Jones, EDSL; Darren Woolf, BSG chair; Shikha Bhardwaj and Herman Calleja, winners from ChapmanBDSP; and judges Darren Coppins, Rokia Raslan and Gabriela Costa 12 January 2019 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Jan19 pp12-13 CIBSE News.indd 12 21/12/2018 16:42