Building Performance Consultancy (over 300 employees)
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This award recognises the consultancy that has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to delivering buildings that have high levels of measured building performance and user satisfaction throughout their operating life.
Winner: Buro Happold
Buro Happold has achieved a great deal over the past two years. In April 2021, it reached its goal of becoming a net zero carbon organisation and it is the first of 14 companies selected as Business Champions for the Construction Leadership Council’s collaborative industry change programme CO2nstructZero.
While the standard of entries to this category was very high this year, Buro Happold’s continued innovation and commitment to inclusion and diversity made it a real standout candidate for the Consultancy of the Year Award.
The judges were impressed by Buro Happold’s versatility and by its ability to deliver consistently good results across the range of application questions. As well as being a net zero carbon organisation with globally certified health and safety standards, it has shown exemplary standards of inclusion in the workplace, promoting in-house networks for women, LGBTQ+ employees and those who identify as disabled or neurodivergent, and offering maternity pay above statutory requirements.
Buro Happold’s tools for evaluation, carbon output measuring and data collection are of a high calibre, and – along with Royal London Asset Management – it has become a trusted adviser to several clients for organisational standards of commissioning and performance evaluation.
Its influence is also visible on an international level. Buro Happold’s Los Angeles office has become a central focus of the net zero City Hall East project in Santa Monica, while its Hong Kong team is set to take part in the Hong Kong Green Building Council’s Advancing Net Zero Ideas Competition.
The judges were impressed by Buro Happold’s versatility and by its ability to deliver consistently good results across the range of application questions. As well as being a net zero carbon organisation with globally certified health and safety standards, it has shown exemplary standards of inclusion in the workplace, promoting in-house networks for women, LGBTQ+ employees and those who identify as disabled or neurodivergent, and offering maternity pay above statutory requirements.
Even in the challenging context of the pandemic, Buro Happold has managed to establish itself as a world-leading consultancy, and is sure to achieve even more in the future.