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The awards will be announced at Manchester's Museum of Science & Industry
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Have you worked on a sustainable newbuild or retrofit project that has achieved the energy or performance targets that were initially set at the design stage? Then the Greenbuild awards, in association with The Green Gauge Trust, are your chance to celebrate this accomplishment and show others how it is done.
The UK buildings industry is undergoing a profound transformation. Sustainability standards are becoming more ambitious and targets for energy use and carbon emissions are increasingly challenging. But, most importantly, there is a new rigour in demanding to know whether the standards and targets are actually being met.
The TSB’s Retrofit for the Future competition set challenging energy and carbon targets – and requires outcomes to be monitored for two years with the results made publicly accessible. The Building Performance Evaluation competition provides resources for all types of building to monitor and measure their performance in use so that the techniques can be learned and disseminated widely. CarbonBuzz is a database where more and more design teams are reporting not only their design intent but their in-use performance.
The Greenbuild awards will celebrate this transformation by recognising and rewarding the best performance of sustainable buildings in use, in a range of sectors. The awards focus on actual, measured performance, not design intent or performance specifications. Judged by a panel of distinguished industry leaders – including Liz Reason (MD of The Green Gauge Trust), George Martin (sustainability director at Willmott Dixon) and Chris Pateman (MD of the Builders Merchants Federation) winners of the awards will know that their work is best in class. These awards will spell the end of superficial assessments and false promises and will help to restore credibility to the term ‘green building’.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements have been created with guidance from Usable Buildings Trust, to include actual performance across a range of factors, including:
Outcomes
Functionality
Indoor environment
Energy CO2 & utilities
Design & construction process
Construction & handover
Achieved performance
Impact on local environment, community, townscape, transport, etc
Fitness for purpose
Appropriateness of space
Appropriateness of fit-out
Usability and manageability
Indoor environmental quality
Occupant satisfaction
Use of energy and utilities
Quality of building and facilities management
A quick, simple, robust and fair approach was required. The checklist drew upon an existing practice-based method that had been developed to assist a dialogue between design team members and their clients – first setting priorities and targets for sustainability and then assisting later reviews and progress reports. The topics covered were extended by the findings of a review of available sustainability assessment methods, and organised broadly in accordance with the sequence of work in an architectural project – from site selection to building in use.
Although not objectively calibrated, the checklist allows levels of aspiration and achievement to be identified, reports quickly and concisely, and permits comparisons between buildings of very different types.
Categories
The awards will recognise truly sustainable buildings in the following sectors:
• Domestic newbuild
• Domestic refurbishment
• Healthcare newbuild and refurb
• Office newbuild
• Office refurb
• Leisure newbuild
• Leisure refurb
• Educational newbuild
• Education refurb
• Retail newbuild
• Retail refurb
• Manufacturing newbuild and refurb
• Breakthrough award - for any person/project that has raised the bar and done something different to achieve a low-energy and sustainable building
• Behavioural change award - for any project that can demonstrate the impact behavioural change has had on its performance
• New retrofit product award, in association with Salford University, to recognise product innovations for retrofit solutions
How to enter
Entries for the awards will be accepted from now until 31st December 2011, with a shortlist drawn up by 1st February 2012. The shortlist will be showcased at Greenbuild Expo on 9th and 10th May at Manchester Central and the winners will be announced at a celebratory dinner on 9th May, to be held at the Museum of Science & Industry.
For an entry form or further details please email lucy@greenbuildnews.co.uk and you can also follow @gb_awards on Twitter.
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