EVENTS | BUILDING PERFORMANCE AWARDS JUDGING BACK TO REALITY With the CIBSE Building Performance Awards returning to London in 2022, the cream of the building services industry will again be able to celebrate in front of their peers. Alex Smith reports from the judging process that, last month, selected shortlists for the 14 awards D The winners will be announced in February, at Londons Park Plaza Westminster Bridge espite the disruption caused by Covid-19, judges last month selected a highly impressive shortlist of projects, products and companies for the 2022 CIBSE Building Performance Awards. The judges met online to decide which companies should feature on the 14 award shortlists. Winners of each category, as well as the Overall Carbon Champion, will be announced on Thursday 24 February, at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London. There is a special Project of the Year category for healthcare, to recognise the increased awareness of air quality and hygiene in the built environment. This follows last years special CIBSE Covid-19 Achievement Award, which marked the building services industrys tremendous response to the pandemic. There are Project of the Year categories for the retail/leisure sector and for public use buildings. Entries to the Building Performance Awards have to include information on energy use with building performance, although the judges noted that the pandemic meant this data could not always be included this year. Focus on Covid was a marked feature of the judging for these awards, partly because buildings werent occupied, so it was difficult to obtain the data necessary, said Jon Belfield. The judges were impressed with how the entries for the Facilities Management Award had embraced the challenge of the past 12 months, while also balancing the need for increasingly sustainable buildings. There were a lot of good entries of a high standard, they said. It is clear from the level of entries There is Project of the Year category for healthcare, to recognise increased awareness of air quality in the built environment The most sustainable e Commercial Air Source S Heat pump Titan Sky The Superior Natural Choice Air Source Inverter Heat pump Natural refrigerant (R290) Heating g Capacity: 30-200 kWMax Hot water production: +63C H Minimum Ambient:-20C SCOP: up to 4.12 Lowest Total Equivalent Warming Impact (TEWI) Unbeatable use of Primary energy thanks to Inverter technology No Ozone Layer impact & Nearly Zero Global warming potential Optimized Low Refrigerant Charge design 16 December 2021 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Dec21 pp16-17 Awards shortlist.indd 16 26/11/2021 14:29