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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 are by nomination. entries should be submitted by 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 2023 to 31 August 2025.

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Building Performance Consultancy (up to 50 employees) sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric

Building Performance Consultancy (51 - 300 employees) sponsored by Airflow 

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.

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This Award recognises products or innovations that make a significant contribution to the individual category elements of building performance:

• Thermal Comfort
• Wellbeing
• Air Quality
• A NEW category for 2026 - Building Performance Evaluation: 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 2022 to 31 August 2025.

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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 2023 to 31 August 2025.

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This Award recognises and celebrates buildings that most effectively demonstrate high levels of user satisfaction and comfort while delivering outstanding measured building performance. Creating this type of exemplar building is demanding and the CIBSE BPA recognise the work and dedication of the project team.

Winners will be selected from the below categories, please select all appropriate categories that apply to your entry. Entries into categories 2-11 as listed below must be from within the United Kingdom. For all entries from outside the UK please select category 1, International only.

1. International
2. Culture and Entertainment (e.g. museums, galleries)
3. Residential (including commercial residential, such as care homes and student accommodation)
4. Retrofit
5. Sports and Leisure
6. Retail and Hospitality (e.g. shops, restaurants, hotels)
7. Data Centres
8. Education (e.g. schools, colleges, academies, higher education)
9. Offices
10. Industrial, Logistics and Warehouses
11. Science and Technology

When entering, please select all appropriate categories that apply to your project.

Projects must have completed during the period 1 June 2021 to 31 August 2024.

Entries may be submitted by any or all members (together) of the project team and must be accompanied by a full year of operational data, reported by filling in the data collection form.

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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 2022-2025. 

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.

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. Shortlisted nominees will be advised in advance of the format of the interview.

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This Award recognises and celebrates individuals, organisations or initiatives 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, 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 2023 to 31 August 2025.

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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 2021 to 31 August 2024.
• 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.

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This award, now split into two, recognises and celebrates innovations in Project Delivery and Organisational Strategy that have made a significant contribution to digital engineering, whether in the UK or internationally. 

•  Project Delivery: This may be a piece of software, a process or other innovation that shows ground-breaking thought, applied to the delivery (e.g. design, modelling, construction, operation) of a project.
• Organisational Strategy: This may be a piece of software, a process or other innovation that shows ground-breaking thought., applied to organisational strategy.

Entries should be based on an innovation launched during the period 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2025.  

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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 2022 to 31 August 2025.

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This award recognises exceptional contributions to understanding and reducing embodied carbon in building services. This awards applies to services, such as embodied carbon assessments of building services or designing for low embodied carbon building services. Embodied carbon is increasingly acknowledged as a major contributor to carbon emissions and must be addressed alongside operational carbon to meet net zero carbon goals.

The Embodied Carbon Award has now been split into two categories:

• Services and Projects (i.e. for Consultants & Clients)
• Products (Manufacturers and Suppliers)

Entries in these categories are welcome from UK or international organisations that consultant on, manufacture or supply building services products, components and systems.

Entries should be for work conducted between 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2025.

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This is a new category for 2026. This Award recognises and celebrates individuals or organisations which have demonstrated innovative or 
exemplar 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 2023 to 31 August 
2025.