We're celebrating young professionals across the globe making a difference in building services engineering.
The CIBSE 30 under 30 awards recognise the talent driving the future of building services engineering across five categories:
- Emerging Leader
- Sustainable Champion
- Digital and Automation Innovator
- Project Delivery Champion
- Technical Excellence Engineer
Entering the awards is simple - it involves answering two short written prompts and filming two short (max 3 mins) video responses.
Winners will:
- Be covered in the CIBSE Journal
- Get a spotlight on the CIBSE YEN Global social media page
- Be featured on the CIBSE website
- Be invited to a special networking event in London
You can only nominate yourself and you must be under 30 at the time of entry. Entries close 15 March.
Check out last year's winners to get inspired.
Explore our categories
We have five categories open to entries. Click on the categories below to explore their entry criteria and download the nomination form.
This category recognises the future leaders of building services. Leadership can take many forms, whether demonstrated through innovative projects, team inspiration, mentorship, or wider industry impact.
This category is kindly sponsored by Swegon.
This category recognises those driving innovation within building services through the use of digital technologies and automation.
This category recognises young professionals who have made outstanding contributions within a specialist building-services discipline whether in lighting, public health engineering, data centres, building performance, building controls, VT, HVAC, or other technical domains through solutions that enhance efficiency, safety, resilience, user experience, or overall system performance.
This category is kindly sponsored by the CIBSE Patrons.
This category recognises those driving sustainability within building services. Their impact might come through championing sustainable change on projects or within organisations, contributing to technical guidance, or actively promoting the benefits of sustainable design across the industry.
This category is kindly sponsored by Ideal Heating - Commercial Products.
This category recognises the professional excellence of young supplier or contractor side professionals who have delivered high-quality, efficient MEP installations, introduced innovative, practical solutions that enhance performance, and have supported on-site through strong technical expertise, effective problem-solving, and excellence in execution.
This category is kindly sponsored by Georg Fischer.
Get the recognition you deserve
Entries are open until 16 March
Thank you to our sponsors
Supporting young engineering talent
Headline sponsor
Baxi
Category sponsors
Georg Fischer
GF has a rich history in industrial innovation since 1802, is actively reshaping itself to become the global leader in Flow Solutions for Industry, Infrastructure and Buildings. GF delivers Excellence in Flow by providing essential products and solutions that enable the safe and sustainable transport of fluids worldwide. The portfolio comprises of safe solutions for hot- and cold-water supply and control, noise-reducing wastewater systems, as well as energy-efficient heating and cooling.
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Ideal Heating – Commercial Products
Established in 1906, Ideal Heating Commercial is the UK’s leading commercial heating manufacturer of high efficiency commercial heating solutions. With our years of experience and knowledge we have developed a range of low carbon heating solutions for commercial properties. From market-leading condensing boilers, commercial heat pumps through to heat interface units, we provide the right heating technology to help the UK on its journey to net zero.
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CIBSE Patrons
CIBSE Patrons is a network of businesses who collaborate to give financial, technical and moral backing to a wide range of initiatives led by CIBSE. Members include consulting engineering practices, manufacturers, contractors, and trade bodies. The Patrons’ primary focus is on ‘nurturing talent’: they support a wide range of initiatives designed to attract, encourage and improve the recruitment, development, training and retention of engineers on behalf of the industry at large. This support ranges from the production of careers booklets, to the sponsorship of bursaries, and to their growing role as lead supporter of the CIBSE Young Engineers Awards.
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Swegon
At Swegon, we believe that indoor environments should make people feel good within the spaces where they spend their time – and feel good within themselves. After all, around 90% of our time is spent indoors. It’s no exaggeration to say that our health, happiness and performance depend on it…. Which is why we engineer HVAC products that are not only highly energy efficient but also easy to combine into systems.
We do it to bring ambitious solutions to life, so that all stakeholders can enjoy the benefits of sustainable buildings. It’s also why Swegon products are designed to be easy to install and commission. And why they are built to last – because good health, happiness and performance should always be a long-term investment.
A true partner, we take responsibility for our role in every project and work to minimise lifecycle costs, reduce complexity and provide competent support – from project start to finish, and beyond. All to help deliver a flexible, health and safe HVAC solution that works exactly as desired. Every time.
Add it all up, and you get indoor environments that let people be at their best, today and tomorrow!
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