Winners with their awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London
SETTING THE STANDARD
Leading energy performers were celebrated at last month’s CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2014. Liza Young reports on the stories from the night
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arks & Spencer and Sustainable Design Solutions lifted the Carbon Champion trophy at the CIBSE Building Performance
Awards 2014, thanks to their efforts to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption at the retailer’s pioneering low-carbon Cheshire Oaks store in Ellesmere Port. They also won the New Build Project of the
Year (value over £10m) award, after smashing the retail giant’s own targets for the store, with
carbon and energy reductions of 44% and 43%, respectively. Munish Datta, M&S head of sustainability
strategy, said: ‘Cheshire Oaks represents the very best of M&S and we are delighted
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to have been recognised by CIBSE for its performance.’ He added: ‘It feels brilliant and very humbling because it’s quite an accolade to win a CIBSE award, and a great compliment for all the hard work that’s gone into not just designing and building but, more importantly, operating that store. ‘This win is incredibly motivating – it encourages you to do more and do better. It’s a great way to benchmark ourselves against other great projects. All the shortlisted projects were fantastic, so to come out as a winner against some really stiff competition is great.’ Datta said the award wasn’t just about recognising the point up to cutting the ribbon
and opening the Cheshire Oaks store. ‘We don’t build buildings just from a design or construction point of view; we build buildings to be in and enjoy. These awards recognise that. They recognise buildings that perform as they were designed to perform and for user comfort – and for our industry – retail-user comfort is incredibly important.’ Datta said that after setting some really
lofty targets for Cheshire Oaks to be 34% more energy efficient than a peer store, he was delighted when it reached 44% at the end of year one. He said among the lessons learned from Cheshire Oaks – in a new-build scenario – were to make the building as airtight as possible, use materials in an intelligent way, and reduce energy demand through displacement ventilation, earth ducts and natural light. But, added Datta: ‘The biggest lesson we’ve learned from it is to make sure
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