Now in their eleventh year, the CIBSE Building Performance Awards recognise the teams, products, innovations, initiatives and projects that demonstrate engineering excellence in the built environment. And they are the only industry Awards that focus on actual, measured performance, rather than design intent or performance specifications. 

This year also saw the introduction of a new Learning and Development category to the awards, attracting a varied and interesting range of excellent entries, illustrating the thirst for learning in the sector.

That was not the only category to spark lively debate between the judges on the 15-strong panel, chaired by Hywel Davies, a veteran of the process. He noted that the discussions were “some of the most lively and vigorous” he had seen during the judging process.

With a wide range of high quality entries, the shortlisting decisions were reached only after considerable debate and careful scrutiny of the entries, and Mr Davies said that “all those on the shortlist have demonstrated a significant contribution.”

The competition is wide open for awards in 2018 and the results will be eagerly anticipated before their announcement at the Awards dinner event on February 6 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

To view the shortlist, visit www.cibse.org/bpa