EWS Mirvac crowned overall winner at awards Mirvac has been crowned CIBSE Building Performance Champion, after judges named its 200 George Street ofce in Sydney the International Project of the Year at the annual CIBSE Building Performance Awards last month. The judges described the scheme as an exemplary project and praised the companys truly holistic approach to building performance and wellbeing. The tower has a 5.5 Nabers star rating for Ofces Indoor Environment and a Gold rating under the Well Building Standard. Other big winners on the night were BuroHappold Engineering and Cundall, which each won two awards. BuroHappold was judged the best Building Performance Consultancy (over 1,000 employees) while Cundall won the equivalent category for 101-1,000 employees. BuroHappold also won Project of the Year Public Use for the Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle University (see Sensor sensibility, CIBSE Journal, December 2018), while Cundall picked up the Learning and Development award for the Cundall Diploma. Elementa Consulting senior engineer Clara Bagenal George was named Building Performance Engineer of the Year, in part because of her work in launching the London Energy Transformation Initiative (see pages 40 and 73). The winner of the Building Performance Consultancy (up to 100 employees) was WARM: Low Energy Building Practice. The judges said it was developing Passivhaus with the supply chain in an innovative way. See page 22 for details of all the winners. Dr Sarah Prichard says diversity needs to go beyond gender Guest speaker Sarah Prichard, managing director at BuroHappold Engineering, told the audience about her experiences as a female engineer. She described her time in the Middle East, where there are few senior women engineers. Prichard said she was able to gain respect without thumping the table, by demonstrating her engineering competence and willingness to solve issues on site. Her proudest moment while there was when male colleagues told her they were inspired to think differently about their wives and daughters, and what they might achieve. However, Prichard also spoke about how inclusivity and diversity needs to go well beyond gender. We need to have teams comprised of people with diverse thoughts, experiences and ideas, she said, and all of them need to feel they can make an equal contribution to success. Here is the new design. Any enquires should be sent to: sean.austen@ksb.com KSB - Building Information Modeling Here is the new design. Any enquires should be sent to: Australian developer triumphs at CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2019 KSB UK are making great strides to provide all our customers with everything they need for BIM in the UK Market. Not only do we already provide 3D BIM Objects in a variety of file formats but we also aim to provide the Information side of BIM Level 2, such as COBie and Product Data Sheets in the near future; one simple download. For more information visit www.ksb.com 6 March 2019 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Mar19 pp06-07 News.indd 6 22/02/2019 18:18