CIBSE has announced the winners of the CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2026, presented on 5 March 2026. The annual event recognises projects, products and professionals for measurable building performance outcomes and building services engineering.
According to CIBSE, the awards focus on evidence-based performance and reward work aimed at closing the performance gap and delivering buildings that work in practice for people and the environment. CIBSE said the 2026 edition received a record number of entries and introduced dedicated categories for Building Performance Evaluation.
Among the winners were Swegon for the CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award - Products and Systems and for Product or Innovation of the Year – Building Performance Evaluation with WISE, Buro Happold for the CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award - Services and Projects and Building Performance Consultancy (over 300 employees), and Willmott Dixon for Building Performance Evaluation – Practice and the CIBSE Next Generation of Building Performance Award. In project categories, winners included Locomotion New Hall - Buro Happold, Riverside Primary School – Architype, 11&12 Wellington Place - Ove Arup and B201 Redevelopment – Beca.
Other winners included BBC Workplace as Client of the Year, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation for Leadership, Hong Kong Children’s Hospital - Hospital Authority for Facilities Management, and Miriam Ozanne, Regional Director, Head of Building Performance – AECOM, as Engineer of the Year. In product categories, AirDoor – VES won for Air Quality and Wellbeing, while Cosysense won for Thermal Comfort.
Dr Julie Godefroy, Chair of the Judges and Head of Net Zero at CIBSE, said: “The CIBSE Building Performance Awards have long promoted a focus on how buildings actually work, for people and for the environment. I'm delighted that they have kept growing, with a record number of entries to the 2026 edition.”
