CIBSE AWARDS | UCL The PPR guidelines capture lessons learned from all UCL projects no matter how big or small in a formal process Lessons learned University College Londons award-winning Post-Project Review guidelines developed with Buro Happold ensure lessons from projects on its estate are fed back into a process designed to improve building performance and close the performance gap. Phil Lattimore reports H ailed by the 2021 CIBSE Building Performance Awards judges as a client-led, collaborative process with clear impact and tangible outcomes, Buro Happold and University College Londons PostProject Review (PPR) Guidelines were the clear winner of this years Learning and Development Award. The expert-industry judging panel was impressed by what it considered to be a well thought through approach to post-occupancy evaluation that it agreed is often hard to implement effectively. The PPR Guidelines were developed as part of a collaboration between UCL, Buro Happold, and consultants Alexi Marmot Associates. Since 2014, UCL has been engaged in a 10-year, 1.25bn Transforming UCL programme that, up to the end of last year, had completed 182 projects. One of these was the award-winning 22 Gordon Street refurbishment of its Bartlett School of Architecture led by Project of the Year in 2020. Buro Happold was already engaged in a POE of this project when the UCL Estates team commissioned it to develop PPR Guidelines that could be applied to all projects involving the colleges estate. David Stevens, director of transformation at UCL Estates, was assistant director projects mobilisation at the time, and was working with senior sustainability manager Ben Stubbs on ensuring the estates buildings were performing as 34 April 2021 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE April 21 pp34-37 UCL learning award Supp.indd 34 26/03/2021 14:53