EVENTS | BUILDING PERFORMANCE AWARDS A FORCE FOR GOOD The CIBSE Building Performance Awards celebrate the projects, products and companies driving best practice and innovation in the industry. We honour the 2019 winners B uroHappold Engineering and Cundall were among the big winners at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards, hosted by comedian Jo Caulfield at Grosvenor House hotel in London last month. They each scooped two awards, with BuroHappold judged the best Building Performance Consultancy (over 1,000 employees) and winning Project of the Year Public Use for the Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle University. Cundall picked up the trophy for best Building Performance Consultancy (101-1,000 employees), and won the Learning and Development award for the Cundall Diploma. Australian developer Mirvac was crowned Building Performance Champion 2019, having won Project of the Year International with the EY Centre, Sydney, Australia. The judges, chaired by CIBSE technical director Hywel Davies, described the 37-storey office tower as an exemplary project and praised Mirvacs truly holistic approach to building performance and wellbeing. Elementa Consulting senior engineer Clara Bagenal George won the inaugural Building Performance Engineer of the Year award after launching the influential London Energy Transformation Initiative (Leti). Many recommendations from the crossindustry group were adopted in the draft London Plan, and the group is now creating a roadmap towards zero carbon homes, which Bagenal George details on page 40. CIBSE President Stephen Lisk opened the event by telling the audience that the CIBSE awards were the only ones that judged buildings on actual measured performance outcomes. He said everyone in the supply chain could influence building performance for the good of society and the planet. By volunteering or participating in CIBSE activities, people could contribute to the Institutions standing as a globally recognised force for good, added Lisk. It is clear that construction in the UK must change and, as a charitable body that exists for the public benefit, we are committed to being at the forefront of delivering that change. BuroHappold Engineerings Dr Sarah Prichard also gave a presentation at the ceremony (see pages 3 and 6 for details). CJ 22 March 2019 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Mar19 pp22-26, 28,29 CIBSE Awards.indd 22 22/02/2019 16:35