Consultancy of the Year

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Split into three categories by total number of employees (globally):

Building Performance Consultancy of the Year (up to 100 employees)

Building Performance Consultancy of the Year (101 - 1000 employees)

Building Performance Consultancy of the Year (over 1000 employees)

This award recognises the consultancy which has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to the design or refurbishment of buildings to meet client expectations of performance, including occupant satisfaction, comfort and energy performance, throughout the operating life.

Who should enter

Building services consultancies

Eligibility

Entries for this category should be from UK based or overseas building services consultancies for consultancy services delivered during the period 1 June 2017 – 31 August 2018.

Judging Criteria

The judges will be looking for:

 Examples of excellence and innovation. Possible areas could include the MEP systems, facades, energy efficiency and management, carbon reduction measures and innovative processes or collaboration models.

 Examples of how you foster effective collaboration between your own staff and other organisations in the project team. Specifically highlight the tools and process you have found to support successful collaboration.

 Examples of how you ensure that effective commissioning, handover and soft landings processes are used on projects, and how they contributed to achieving the teams’ intended building performance.

 Evidence of improved building performance within your own business.

 Investment in your staff to offer clients a better building performance service.

 Evidence of how have you acquired, developed and transferred knowledge and experience of building performance within your consultancy or across the industry.

 Evidence of client and occupant satisfaction with completed projects and testimonials from other partners such as contractors, and other participants in the supply chain.

 Examples of how you have improved building performance of projects through the use of measurement tools such as DECs, ESOS reports, NABERS, CIBSE TM22, Soft Landings, Carbon Buzz entries or other post occupancy evaluation tools.

Entries must be accompanied by testimonials from clients and other partners such as contractors, and other participants in the supply chain.

Entries should demonstrate how the organisation meets client requirements and set out how they deliver engineering excellence, sustainable construction and operation and energy efficient performance. Entries will describe how the organisation supports delivery of these objectives through its processes, training and development, and adoption of new technologies and ways of working. It will provide recent evidence of customer satisfaction and of current practical use of building performance measurement tools such as DECs, ESOS reports, CIBSE TM22, Soft Landings or other post occupancy evaluation tools and CarbonBuzz entries.

Entry form

Please ensure you download the correct entry form depending on the total number of employees of the building services consultancy being entered:

Download the Building Performance Consultancy of the Year (up to 100 employees) Entry Form

Download the Building Performance Consultancy of the Year (101 - 1000 employees) Entry Form

Download the Building Performance Consultancy of the Year (over 1000 employees) Entry Form

Closing date for entries: 14 September 2018

Useful resources

CIBSE TM54 Evaluating Operational Energy Performance of Buildings at the Design Stage

CIBSE AM11 Building Performance Modelling 2015

CIBSE Guide F: Energy Efficiency in Buildings NEW 2012