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Perform
Reward
Celebrate
INTRODUCING
DATA CENTRE
PROJECT OF
THE YEAR.
HAVE YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN A
CIBSE BUILDING PERFORMANCE AWARD?
ENTRY DEADLINE : 15 SEPTEMBER 2017
FREE TO
ENTER
The Chartered Institution of Building Services
Engineers (CIBSE) has announced a new category,
dedicated to celebrating building performance
achievements in the Data Centre industry, at their
annual Building Performance Awards.
CIBSE have introduced the Data Centre category to recognise examples
of building performance in a sector that is forming an increasingly
large part of the world’s energy usage. This category rewards innovative
solutions that reduce the impact of data centres as their share of
world energy use increases. Judged by a panel of distinguished industry
leaders from top global and UK companies, winners of the awards are
acknowledged as the best in class.
Dr Hywel Davies, CIBSE Technical Director and Chair of the Building
Performance Awards judging panel, said: “It is important that the
Building Performance Awards adapt to reflect a fast-moving industry,
and data centres are a growing part of that industry. As our ambition
to connect more and more of the world to the Internet develops, so
will our requirement to build infrastructure such as data centres to
service that demand. If we don’t get it right, and build a generation of
poorly performing data centres, we will lock in their carbon emissions
for decades to come.”
Visit cibse.org/DCN to find out more
The Awards will be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London
on 6 February 2018 and are attended annually by over 750 guests
from across the built environment supply chain.
Project of the Year – Data centre (new for 2018)
Recognising the new build or refurbishment of a Data Centre that
most effectively demonstrates and delivers outstanding measured
building performance, energy efficiency and reduced carbon
emissions.
What the Judges are looking for?
Synopsis of the project and its building performance objectives
Sustainability aspects including energy efficiency and embodied
environment impacts
One year’s evidence of measured building performance
Evidence of costs and expected savings
Entries should be for Data Centre projects located in the United
Kingdom and completed during the period 1 June 2014 – 31 August
2016. Projects based outside the UK can enter the International
Project of the Year category.