EVENTS | CIBSE BUILDING PERFORMANCE AWARDS 2021 BURO HAPPOLD TAKES BUILDING CHAMPION CROWN Engineer wins four CIBSE Building Performance Awards, including Public Use Building of the Year and Consultant of the Year (over 300 employees) B uro Happold has been named 2021 Building Performance Champion at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards. The awards were held virtually for the first time last month, when the global engineering consultancy went one better than last year by claiming four accolades in total. It was named Consultancy of the Year (over 300 employees) and was praised by the judges for taking a holistic view of building performance that draws back into wider sustainability views, and for going beyond the standard engineering offer. This was evident in The House at Cornell Tech, which won Project of the Year Public Use. The judges called it an exemplar for future-proofed, multi-family Jaguar Land Rover Advanced Product Creation Centre engineered by Buro Happold Building Performance Consultancy of the Year (over 300 employees) Winner: Buro Happold The judges hailed Buro Happold as a company our industry should aspire to be, and praised it for the holistic view that draws back into wider sustainability, reaching beyond the standard engineering offer. Having declared a climate emergency, the rm encouraged others to do the same by launching its Engineers Declare platforms. In 2020, it published its rst global sustainability report, committing its business operations to be net zero by April 2021. It is aiming for all residential design, and said it delivers Passivhaus on a large scale, which ties in social aspects and lessons learned from the building performance to educate occupants. The firms staff training and continual development were also acknowledged by the judges, who were impressed by the consultancys many collaborations. One such effort, working with UCL on its post-project review guidelines, helped Buro Happold win the Learning and Development Award. The judges felt that Buro Happolds willingness to champion sustainability, work with others and learn from projects made it a worthy overall winner. Chair of judges Hywel Davies said: Buro Happold has shown clear leadership and demonstrated how to deliver low carbon buildings at scale and reduce the impact of existing buildings, which remains a huge challenge across the building stock. CJ Watch the event at bit.ly/CJMar21BPA new buildings to by net zero in operation by 2030, with all projects net zero by 2050. It is a Pioneering Delivery Partner for the Design for Performance initiative, an early signatory to the World Green Building Council (GBC) Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment, and active in the CIBSE Energy Performance Group and Health and Wellbeing Working Group, as well as the new Knowledge Generation Panel. Buro Happold is also a leading contributor to the Society of Faade Engineering and its work on faade safety. Collaboration is central to the success of its projects, and the rm employs a variety of techniques to promote it. One example is its extensive work with C40 Cities around the world. The judges praised Buro Happolds innovative tool development, offered open source to industry, funding of research through its PhD programme, and staff training. Sponsored by 18 March 2021 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE March 21 pp18-22 Awards.indd 18 19/02/2021 14:09