London South Bank University’s estates and academic environment team has won a CIBSE Building Performance award for efficient facilities management.
The CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2021, now in their 14th year, recognise the people, products and projects that demonstrate engineering excellence in the built environment.
The award was for the university’s improvements in overall energy efficiency and sustainability across its estate, with energy-efficient technologies employed to reduce overall electric, gas and water consumption.
These measures include phasing out inefficient luminaires across campus and replacing four ageing ground source heat pumps with two reversible heat pumps providing low carbon heating and cooling.
Chris Barnes, Maintenance & Energy Manager for Estates & Academic Environment at London South Bank University (LSBU) and the estates team led a range of projects to improve performance and reduce carbon emissions without impacting student experience.
In total, the team’s measures have reduced the Scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions from the entire campus from 11,694 TCO2 in 2010 to only 1,711 TCO2 in 2020 (an 85 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions), as well as a reduction in water use of approximately 25 million litres per year.
Chris Barnes commented: “LSBU’s Estates team is very proud to have won this CIBSE award for efficient facilities management across the University’s campus. It’s recognition of the commitment we’ve given to upgrading our campus facilities and improving the performance of buildings, while reducing our impact on the environment.
“LSBU’s commitment to renewable energy sources has resulted in a carbon emissions reduction of 85 per cent since 2010.”
