Winners of CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2025 Announced

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28 February 2025

The CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2025 celebrated individuals, organisations, products and projects across the built environment at a ceremony at The Park Plaza Westminster Bridge.

The ceremony was hosted by comedian Marcus Brigstocke with prizes given across 30 categories including Building Performance Champion and Engineer of the Year.

Volkan Doda, Head of Design Technologies at Atelier Ten, was named Engineer of the Year for his commitment to fostering talent and delivering innovative, high-performance solutions in building performance.

Building Performance Champion and Project of the Year – Retrofit Workplaces went to The Entopia Building, a former 1930s telephone exchange turned low-carbon sustainability hub in Cambridge that has Passivhaus EnerPHit certification. 

There were also nine highly commended entries including the Passive Cooling Double-skin Roof by Universidad de Sevilla and the Aldar Energy Retrofit Project by grfn.

 

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 

 

Picture: a group photo of all of the CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2025 winners on stage. Image Credit: CIBSE

Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 28 February 2025

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