Embodying best practice: Building Performance Awards shortlist

The quality of submissions for the 2025 CIBSE Building Performance Awards is higher than ever. Alex Smith looks at the entries – including for the new Leadership and Client of the Year categories– and picks out this year’s trends

Cutting carbon: Whitecroft Lighting’s C2C approach

Whitecroft Lighting won a CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award by adopting lean manufacturing and design to cut life-cycle carbon from its products by up to 46%. Molly Tooher-Rudd speaks to the firm’s Tim Bowes about its circular approach

The blueprint for net zero: launch of NZCBS pilot version

The UK’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard sets a performance benchmark for buildings that aligns with the country’s net zero goals. Julie Godefroy explains how cross-industry support for the standard will drive widespread adoption

Build2Perform Live preview

CIBSE Build2Perform Live returns to London ExCeL on 13-14 November. Don’t miss out on the industry’s biggest conference and exhibition, featuring the latest technology, guidance and regulation in building services

Workplace trends: changing office design

Workplaces have undergone a radical transformation post-pandemic, prioritising flexibility, sustainability and wellbeing. Aecom’s Mike Burton looks at the latest trends

Moving with the times: CIBSE’s new HQ

CIBSE is leaving Balham and relocating to a new head office in Farringdon. CEO Ruth Carter tells Alex Smith the flexible new space embodies CIBSE’s forward-thinking vision and will serve as a dynamic hub for members and staff

Made to engineer: Whitecode Consulting’s apprenticeships

Degree apprenticeships must be adopted more widely to solve the building services skills shortage, says Whitecode Consulting’s Alex Hill. He tells Alex Smith how his firm nurtures the talent of engineers while sponsoring them through university