The University of Auckland’s B201 is one of the world’s most sustainable academic buildings. Andy Pearson explores how CIBSE’s 2026 Building Performance Champion used deep retrofit and building services engineering to transform the 1970s campus
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Building Performance Award winners 2026
The projects, products and people setting the benchmarks for excellence in building services engineering
‘Walking the talk’: building performance at 20 Fenchurch Street
At 20 Fenchurch Street, collaborative, data-led interventions have improved building performance dramatically. Andy Pearson looks at how proactive facilities management and occupier engagement have reaped huge energy savings
Boxing clever: sustainability at the Cathedral Hill Industrial Estate
Sustainability is often seen as a cost, but at Cathedral Hill Industrial Estate it’s become the key to a 220% rental uplift and a CIBSE award-winning retrofit. Andy Pearson reports
How NABERS UK helped deliver a winning office design
CIBSE Building Performance Award winner Globe Point, in Leeds, is using the NABERS UK standard to ensure that its carbon-busting office design is realised post-occupancy. Andy Pearson speaks to Hoare Lea’s Philip Mannis about the design and assessment tool