BUILDING PERFORMANCE AWARDS AECOM


With only a month to go until the 2013 Building Performance Awards, Andy Pearson talks to Mike Burton at CIBSE’s reigning Building Services Engineer of the Year, Aecom, to see what impressed the panel of expert judges


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ike Burton is clearly proud of Aecom’s submission for the Building Services Engineer of the Year at the 2012 CIBSE Building


Performance Awards. He’s printed copies of the company’s awards submission and placed them strategically around Aecom’s swanky new offi ces in London’s Holborn. ‘When we pulled together everything we’re doing here it makes for a very powerful document,’ he says. Clearly the CIBSE judges thought the same: Aecom triumphed in the category. Burton has good reason to be pleased with the win. As director of building engineering,


he is responsible for the London building engineering team, which includes its building services engineers. Sitting in one of the company’s corporate meeting rooms, dressed soberly in a dark suit and white shirt, he outlines how the company he joined 20 years ago has transformed itself into a global building services consultancy, and one of the world’s leading engineering consultancies. After graduating in 1989 with a degree in architectural engineering from the University of Leeds and Pennsylvania State University in the USA, Burton joined Oscar Faber, as it was then called. Following completion of the engineering consultant’s graduate training programme, his career fl ourished, and he became a director of Oscar Faber in July 2006. He has remained with the company in all its guises ever since; fi rst as it merged with Maunsell to become Faber Maunsell;


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