NEWS | DIGEST SHORTLISTS REVEALED FOR 2023 CIBSE BUILDING PERFORMANCE AWARDS A quartet of highperformance buildings has made the shortlist for the non-domestic Project of the Year at the 2023 CIBSE Building Performance Awards. Clockwise from top left, the buildings are: Chobham Manor, submitted by LLDC; Cranmer Road, Kings College Cambridge, Max Fordham; Harris Academy, Sutton, BDP; and the ESB Ofces Fitzwilliam Street, BDP. Book a table at www. cibse.org/bpa and see page 24 for all the nalists. IN BRIEF Energy efficiency priority for properties Four out of five European commercial real estate asset managers are accelerating plans to improve energy efficiency across their portfolios to deal with rising heat and power bills, according to research by ESG data intelligence firm Deepki. The survey of 250 managers in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy found that 53% had seen energy costs rise by more than 50% across their portfolios. In addition, 56% of respondents have seen an uplift of 11-15% in the value of buildings that have good energy efficiency performance, while 82% expect the energy costs crisis to cause a dramatic increase in unoccupied buildings that perform poorly on energy efficiency. Net zero standard group calls for building energy data Team seeks to establish benchmarks and a view of best practice A call for evidence has been launched to inform and guide the development of the UKs rst Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS). The team developing the standard is seeking operational and embodied energy data for buildings, to help benchmark different building types. It will be looking for in-use consumption data from the best-performing existing buildings and modelled performance data for buildings in design or construction. The NZCBS team is also seeking embodied carbon data from both new and retrot projects. Data should be submitted by 16 December and details are at www.nzcbuildings.co.uk. David Partridge, recently appointed chair of the UK NZCBS governance board, said: We are looking for built environment professionals to contribute data from a number of different asset types to develop a single, agreed methodology, and for all stakeholders in the real estate industry, who will be using the standard, to get involved to formulate it appropriately. The group developing the NZCBS includes CIBSE, the Low Energy Transformation Initiative, LETI, and the Better Buildings Partnership, the Institution of Structural Engineers, the Royal Institute of British Architects and UK Green Building Council. Read an interivew with David Partridge on page 20. Halving energy costs by marrying CHPs to Heat Pumps* Em iss ion s * Compared to gas Boiler or Heat Pump only energy centres www.sav-systems.com rity cu Se Cost HYBRID 10 December 2022 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Dec 22 pp10 News.indd 10 25/11/2022 14:33