Still time to be a winner
Submissions for entries to CIBSE’s Building Performance Awards are being taken up to close of business on 11 September 2014 and can be made online. The awards categories recognise projects, products and the people who make a measurable difference to building performance. The latest awards feature two new categories — lighting for building performance and building control systems.
CIBSE says that some feedback from members on the CIBSE Building Performance Awards suggested a wish for a Building Information Modelling (BIM) award. Hywel Davies, CIBSE technical director and chairman of the judging panel says: ‘BIM is about helping to produce buildings that work better for the owners, occupiers and even those who buy or use the products or services generated in the building. Or else BIM is about enabling better or more effective creation and management of built environment assets over the whole life. So at what point in the life of an asset that has been procured using BIM do we decide it is an award winner? Ultimately, BIM is a tool, and not an end in itself. The end game is better collaboration that produce better performing buildings, hence the BPA’s Collaborative Working Partnership Award.’
Other categories are building-services consultancy up to 100 employees, building-services consultancy over 100 employees, building performance training programme, facilities management operations, energy saving product, energy management, new-build project up to £10 million, new-build project over £10 million, refurbishment project up to £5 million, refurbishment project over £5 million and international project.
The awards dinner will be held at Grosvenor House in London on 10 February 2015. More information from the link below.
