UCL wins CIBSE Building Performance Award

UCL are pleased to announce they have won the CIBSE (Chartered Institute Building Services Engineers) 2021 Building Performance Award in the Learning and Development category. Developed in partnership with engineering consultants BuroHappold, the award was received for their ‘UCL Post Project Review Guidelines’.

The guidelines have been created to include a range of tools that enables team members to report ‘Lessons Learned’, as well as providing ‘Post Occupancy Evaluation’ (POE) resources  for consultants and staff. To ensure future building projects can accurately track their performance against targets for satisfaction, environment and financial, the POE will support effective reporting on energy, waste, and water consumption in new buildings in their first three years after opening. It will also allow critical knowledge to be retained for future construction projects.

Sharing their reasoning on UCL gaining first place, the panel of judges commented on the win saying, ‘The judges were impressed by the initiative’s well thought through approach to post-occupancy evaluation, as well as the standardisation and clear application of a difficult process... A client-led, collaborative process, with clear impact, and tangible outcomes’.

The post project review guidelines that have been developed while reviewing renovated buildings such as 22 Gordon Street will continue be applied to projects currently under construction including UCL East , PEARL, and the combined Institute of Neurology and Dementia Research Institute (IoN/DRI). There is more information about the guidelines that led to the award win on the CIBSE Awards page.
 
Responding to the news of the award Kevin Argent, Director Estates Development said