As the sponsor of the Engineer of the Year award at the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Building Performance Awards, Ideal Heating Commercial was delighted to present the award to Volkan Doda, Head of Design Technologies at Atelier Ten.
The Building Performance Awards acknowledges and celebrates engineering excellence in the built environment, with those lucky enough to achieve the status of winner rightly recognized as pioneers in their field.
Prestigious award category
Seventh year in a row that Ideal Heating Commercial has sponsored this prestigious award category
This year’s awards were held on Thursday, 27th February at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London. Ideal Heating Commercial’s Richard Brown, Head of Specification Sales, presented the Engineer of the Year Award on stage to Volkan, who was chosen from a shortlist of five.
This is the seventh year in a row that Ideal Heating Commercial has sponsored this prestigious award category.
Focussed on net zero
“As the CIBSE Building Performance Awards require actual, measured performance outcomes, all candidates to have made it on to the shortlist - yet alone achieve winning position - are truly remarkable and I have nothing but admiration for their knowledge and skillset,” states Richard.
“These are the people helping to make our built environments better places in which to live and work, and that are firmly focussed on net zero. Everyone on the shortlist is a deserving winner, but Volkan was chosen by the judges unanimously for his ability to 'bridge gaps between academic, constant learning and high-performance building design'.”
Collaboration to solve complex challenges
The judges were also impressed with how his work exemplifies the integration of physics
The judges were also impressed with how his work exemplifies the integration of physics, creativity, and collaboration to solve complex challenges.
Commenting on his win, Volkan said: “I am extremely honored to be recognized as the Engineer of the Year among such strong competition. I certainly wouldn’t have received this award without our clients who always challenge us to push the envelope and, of course, the incredible team at Atelier Ten that always rises to the occasion to deliver creative, high-performing building services in a collaborative environment that nurtures engineers like me."
Future generations of building service
Volkan added: "I am also very grateful to CIBSE for offering me a platform to inspire the future generations of bright building services engineers and promote an even stronger, forward-looking engineering culture.”
The standard of the shortlisted entries was very high this year, the judges said, and "the use of big data sets has come to the fore, redefining the solutions we need for a more flexible approach to designing high-performing buildings."
