CIBSE Journal March 2009

Low Carbon Awards 2009
Every
one a
winner
We celebrate the individuals
Champion of Carbon Saving Champions Award
and companies honoured at
Winner: Quinten Babcock from TfL, with sponsor David
Morgan from E.ON (left) and Ellen MacArthur
this year’s CIBSE awards
T
he second CIBSE Low Carbon Performance
Awards welcomed 600 guests to the Grosvenor
House Hotel in London. Twelve awards were
presented on the night, each supported by a
sponsor (see right). CIBSE president John Swafﬁ eld
said at the ceremony: “With money saving and,
therefore, energy saving on everyone’s minds, this
event is the ideal opportunity to recognise and reward
Refurbishment of the Year
those campaigns, projects and innovations that help
Winner: Sigrid Stagl and Peter Kauffmann for the Brighton House Project,
collected by Sigrid Stagl and sponsor Glan Blake Thomas from AET
to reduce the amount of carbon emitted and energy
consumed by the built environment.”
Guest speaker for the evening was former Mayor
of London Ken Livingstone, who spoke of his time in
offi ce and the dire warnings he would receive on global
warming and climate change. His fellow presenter was
record-breaking yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur,
who writes: “I would like to congratulate everyone who
took part in the Low Carbon Performance Awards
2009 on all that has been achieved throughout the 100
Best Carbon Saving Programme
Hours of Carbon Clean Up. Thanks to initiatives like
Winner: Simons Design, collected by Rosi Fieldson and
this, and other great schemes like the E.ON’s Energy
(left) sponsor representative Ian Gratte of Gratte Brothers
Marshals – which encourages companies to have a
dedicated energy manager – businesses are adopting
the advice and tools to change behaviour.
“The Low Carbon Performance Awards 2009 are
important because they are playing a part in managing
our consumption. And the decisions that we make and
the actions that we take now to manage this and its
effect will shape the way that future generations live
their lives. Through working with E.ON I’ve also been
encouraging businesses to make simple changes to
Best Carbon Saving Programme – SME
their behaviour when. Having a dedicated Energy
Winner: BDP Belfast, collected by Stuart Mackenzie
and Prof Terry Payne from sponsor Monodraught
Marshal is an excellent way to motivate staff to start
acting differently today and I’d encourage any business
to think about creating this type of role. So please visit
www.eonenergymarshalls.com.”
The judges for the awards were
Bill Bordass of Useable Buildings
Trust; Hywel Davies of CIBSE; Terry
Giles, assessor of energy assessors;
and Ted King, CIBSE vice-president.
Innovation of the Year – design or technical
Winner: i-prophets, collected by Richard Hipkiss from
i-prophets and (left) Mark Northcott from sponsor Broag
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