​CIBSE ANZ | Building Performance: Reimagining the future role of Engineers

A holistic and future-oriented perspective on building performance and the role of building services professionals in building performance.

At the end of 2024, CIBSE launched the “Building Performance re-imagined” report: it’s a holistic and future-oriented perspective on building performance, and in particular the need for buildings to be:

• more adaptable, diverse & perform flexibly to suit a variety of different futures and resilient to a changing world
• better connected to context, to environment, and to each other, and actively contributing to a circular economy

Read the report here

CIBSE ANZ has invited CIBSE president, Fiona Cousins, to present the report and share her thoughts on how the role of building design professionals and building services designers could be reimagined to deliver better building performance and a more sustainable future.

Following Fiona’s talk, we have invited two local industry experts for a panel discussion with Fiona, and Chaired by CIBSE NSW Chair, Jen Elias. The panel will focus on how professional building performance practice and broader building design practice in Australia needs to evolve to deliver more sustainable outcomes in response to the emerging trends identified in the report.

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Fiona Cousins joined Arup as a trainee. She was appointed to Principal in 2007, having worked in London, San Francisco, Berlin and New York. She is a member of the Americas and Arup Group Boards.

She is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of CIBSE. She is also a LEED Fellow, recognizing her experience in sustainable building design. Fiona gave the CIBSE Annual Lecture in 2016: ‘How Building Services Engineers can save Civilization’. She was also honoured to receive the American Institute of Architects NY Chapter Award of Merit and the ASHRAE New York Chapter Distinguished Practitioner Award, both in 2017. She was elected to the board of CIBSE in 2019.

Low energy and sustainable design have been key drivers for Fiona throughout her career across a wide range of building types. She is particularly proud of the US Embassy in London, the Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center in New York, the Fulton Center station in New York and the Frick Chemistry building in New Jersey. Her primary professional interest is at the intersection of complex projects, excellent place-making and sustainable development.

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