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Recognising outstanding achievements at CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2025

Friday 28 February, 2025

The Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London came alive on Thursday, 27 February 2025 for the prestigious CIBSE Building Performance Awards. This remarkable event celebrated the individuals, organisations, products and projects that set new benchmarks for sustainability, innovation and performance in the built environment. It was hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke.


With a total of 30 diverse categories this year, the BPAs highlighted the crucial contributions across disciplines that shape the future of the built environment. Key categories included Best Digital Innovation, Project of the Year, Product or Innovation of the Year and Building Performance Champion.


Among the evening’s many highlights, the Engineer of the Year award was presented to Volkan Doda, Head of Design Technologies at Atelier Ten. A designer of immense creativity and dedication, Volkan’s expertise in both theory and application exemplify the cutting edge of building performance. His commitment to fostering talent and delivering innovative, high-performance solutions has made him a valued leader in the field.


The title of Building Performance Champion and Project of the Year - Retrofit Workplaces went to The Entopia Building, an extraordinary collaboration between Max Fordham, Architype, and BDP. This transformational project in Cambridge turned a 1930s structure into an ultra-low-carbon sustainability hub, demonstrating groundbreaking application of circular economy principles. With Passivhaus EnerPHit certification and targeting multiple other sustainability accolades, The Entopia Building showcases the future of environmentally conscious design, achieving a staggering 84% reduction in whole-life carbon compared to standard retrofits.


The event showcased the remarkable breadth of talent and innovation in the industry. Among the highly commended entries were the Passive Cooling Double-skin Roof by Universidad de Sevilla in the Product or Innovation of the Year – Thermal Comfort category and the Aldar Energy Retrofit Project by grfn in Project of the Year – Portfolio Workplaces, highlighting a wealth of inspiring achievements. This year’s BPAs once again demonstrated CIBSE’s commitment to fostering innovation and excellence in the built environment. By showcasing outstanding achievements and raising the bar for industry standards, the Awards inspire the entire sector to strive for sustainable, efficient and people-centred solutions.


Full list of winners:


Building Performance Champion


Winner: The Entopia Building - Max Fordham, Architype & BDP


Best Digital Innovation - Organisational Strategy


Winner: Cyclops - Foster + Partners


Best Digital Innovation - Project Delivery


Winner: Sydney Airport International Terminal T1 Chilled Water Plant Optimisation - A.G. Coombs Group, Exergenics


Building Performance Consultancy (over 300 employees)


Winner: AtkinsRéalis


Sponsor: ABB


Building Performance Consultancy (up to 50 employees)


Winner: Cyclone Energy Group


Sponsor: Mitsubishi Electric


Building Performance Consultancy (51 - 300 employees)


Winner: XCO2


Sponsor: Airflow


CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award - Products and Systems: for Manufacturers and Suppliers


Winner: Apollo Fire Detectors


Sponsor: CIBSE Certification


CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award - Services and Projects for Consultants


Winner: Q Sustain


Sponsor: CMR


Client of the Year


Winner: London Borough of Islington


Collaboration


Winner: L&G's Symphony Model - Legal & General, Demand Logic, Bellrock and Partners


Sponsor: CIBSE Lifecycle Carbon Assessment Training


Engineer of the Year


Winner: Volkan Doda, Head of Design Technologies - Atelier Ten


Sponsor: Ideal Heating Commercial


Facilities Management


Winner: 20 Fenchurch Street – Savills


Sponsor: Gratte Brothers Group


Leadership


Winner: Swire Properties


Learning and Development


Winner: The ZERO teaching and internship programme on zero-carbon energy buildings - ZERO Institute, University of Oxford


Sponsor: BCIA


Product or Innovation of the Year - Air Quality


Winner: The Pluvo Column – Pluvo


Sponsor: CIBSE Patrons


Product or Innovation of the Year - Thermal Comfort


Winner: Optimum Air Conditioning System - EcoTechX


Product or Innovation of the Year - Wellbeing


Winner: Nature Connect - Signify


Project of the Year - Residential


Winner: Agar Grove 1b - Max Fordham


Sponsor: Crane Fluid Systems


Project of the Year - Retrofit Workplaces


Winner: The Entopia Building - Max Fordham, Architype & BDP


Sponsor: Crane Fluid Systems


Project of the Year - New Build Workplaces


Winner: Globe Point, Temple - Hoare Lea


Sponsor: Crane Fluid Systems


Project of the Year - Portfolio Workplaces


Winner: Cathedral Hill Industrial Estate,13 units – SRE


Sponsor: Crane Fluid Systems


Full list of highly commended:


Best Digital Innovation - Project Delivery


Highly Commended: Paper Trails to Digital Triumphs - Savills


Building Performance Consultancy (over 300 employees)


Highly Commended: Buro Happold


Sponsor: ABB


Building Performance Consultancy (51 - 300 employees)


Highly Commended: Max Fordham


Sponsor: Airflow


CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award - Services and Projects: for Consultants


Highly Commended: AECOM


Sponsor: CMR


Leadership


Highly Commended: Andy Jackson, Head of Central London Operations & UK Engineering - Savills


Learning and Development


Highly Commended: Building Safety Act - Training and Assessment - Hoare Lea


Sponsor: BCIA


Product or Innovation of the Year - Thermal Comfort


Highly Commended: Passive Cooling Double-skin Roof - Universidad de Sevilla


Project of the Year - Residential


Highly Commended: Brambles - Bere Architects


Sponsor: Crane Fluid Systems


Project of the Year - Portfolio Workplaces


Highly Commended: Aldar Energy Retrofit Project – grfn


Sponsor: Crane Fluid Systems



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