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This award recognises the consultancy that has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to delivering buildings that have high levels of measured building performance and user satisfaction throughout their operating life.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK-based or international building services consultancies with up to 50 staff employed across all job roles.
• Entries should be based on consultancy services delivered during the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2026.
• Entries should be accompanied by testimonials from clients, contractors, and other supply chain partners.

This award recognises the consultancy that has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to delivering buildings that have high levels of measured building performance and user satisfaction throughout their operating life.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK-based or international building services consultancies with over 300 staff employed across all job roles.
• Entries should be based on consultancy services delivered during the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2026.
• Entries should be accompanied by testimonials from clients, contractors, and other supply chain partners.

This award recognises and celebrates examples of collaborative working that have delivered outstanding outcomes on single or multiple new build, refurbishment, design, or maintenance projects. It rewards the use of integrated processes that deliver outstanding measured building performance in terms of user satisfaction and comfort, energy and carbon, health and wellbeing, and whole life value.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK or international collaborations.
• Entries should be based on projects completed during the period 1 June 2022 to 31 August 2025.
• Entries may be submitted by any or all members (together) of the project team and should be accompanied by a full year of operational data.

This award recognises building services products or innovations that make a significant contribution to the wellbeing element of building performance. These can include solutions in the areas of lighting, acoustics, and more generally solutions in the areas of controls, monitoring, evaluation, and delivery of indoor or outdoor environments which contribute to the wellbeing of building users - please note that products specifically addressing thermal comfort or air quality should be submitted in those categories, rather than this one.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK or international organisations.
• Entries should be for products or innovations introduced or launched between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2026.

This award recognises products or innovations that make a significant contribution to building performance evaluation. These can include solutions in all areas of building performance (e.g. energy use, fabric performance, the indoor environment etc), but has to be about its real-life evaluation.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK or international organisations.
• Entries should be for products or innovations introduced or launched between 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2026.

This Award recognises and celebrates the achievements of a Facilities Management (FM) team or project, whether in-house or outsourced, which delivers outstanding building performance from an individual building, a site with several buildings or a portfolio of assets. FM is vital in making buildings work and improving performance in terms of user satisfaction and comfort, energy and carbon, health and wellbeing and whole life value.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK-based or international FM teams.
• Entries should cover a full year of facilities management activity, supported by operational performance data during the period 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2026.

This award recognises and celebrates clients who have driven whole life performance, including user satisfaction and comfort, energy and carbon, health and wellbeing, and whole life value, and who have fostered collaboration, learning, and development among their consultants and supply chains. The award can be in recognition of a specific building project, or for strategies applying to several sites or across portfolios.

• Entries in this category can be for UK or international clients, from the private or public sector.
• Entries can be by the client themselves or by nomination from their consultants, contractors, or other parties within the client’s project team.
• Entries may be submitted by any or all members (together) of the client’s project team.
• Entries should be based on services delivered for the client during the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2026.

This award recognises the consultancy that has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to delivering buildings that have high levels of measured building performance and user satisfaction throughout their operating life.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK-based or international building services consultancies with between 51 and 300 staff employed across all job roles.
• Entries should be based on consultancy services delivered during the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2026.
• Entries should be accompanied by testimonials from clients, contractors, and other supply chain partners.

This award recognises and celebrates individuals or organisations that have demonstrated innovative or exemplary practice in Building Performance Evaluation.

Note this category is about practice and services; for products, see the Product or Innovation – Building Performance Evaluation category.

• Entries in this category can be for UK or international individuals, organisations or initiatives. Entries could cover work they have carried out themselves, or which they have led in a wider initiative, or which they have commissioned from others.
• Entries should be based on activities delivered during the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2026.

This award recognises building services products or innovations that make a significant contribution to the thermal comfort element of building performance. These can include solutions in the areas of heating, ventilation, cooling, and humidification, and more generally solutions in the areas of controls, monitoring, evaluation, and delivery of comfortable indoor or outdoor thermal conditions.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK or international organisations.
• Entries should be for projects or innovations introduced or launched between 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2026.

This award recognises building services products or innovations that make a significant contribution to the air quality element of building performance. These can include solutions in the areas of heating, ventilation, cooling, and moisture control, as well as products and innovations that treat indoor air, and more generally, solutions in the areas of controls, monitoring, evaluation, and delivery of indoor air quality.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK or international organisations.
• Entries should be for products or innovations introduced or launched between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2026.

This Award recognises and celebrates the organisation that can demonstrate how their learning and development initiative has improved the understanding of building performance within an organisation and/or in the wider built environment. This includes applied research initiatives from academia.

• Entries in this category are welcome from UK-based or international initiatives.
• Entries should be based on activity delivered during the period 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2026.

This Award recognises and rewards the contributions of practicing building services engineers to creating and maintaining a sustainable built environment. It celebrates individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the Science, Art and Practice of building services engineering in 2023-2026.

NB: Please note that this is not a lifetime achievement award.

• Nominees for this award must be practicing engineers registered with the Engineering Council (CEng, IEng or EngTech) or equivalent.
• Each entry must have a nominator and two named supporters.
• Either the primary nominator or one of the supporters must be registered with the Engineering Council (CEng, IEng or EngTech) or equivalent. Supporting nominations will be accepted from clients, other professionals, and other participants in the supply chain.
• At least the nominator or one of the supporters should be from an organisation external to the nominee’s company.

Nominations will be evaluated by a judging panel, who will draw up a shortlist of no more than eight nominees. Those shortlisted will then be invited to interview by the panel on 3 November 2026. Shortlisted nominees will be advised in advance of the format of the interview.

This award recognises and celebrates individuals or organisations which have demonstrated leadership and impact on climate action i.e. climate mitigation and the route to Net Zero, and climate adaptation. Entries are welcome from clients, consultants and their supply chains, as well as wider stakeholders, e.g. local authorities, consumer groups, and action networks.

• Entries in this category can be for UK or international individuals, organisations or initiatives. Entries could cover work they have carried out themselves, or which they have led in a wider initiative, or which they have commissioned from others.
• Entries should be based on activities delivered during the period 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2026.