Building services stars spotlighted by CSA Awards 2024

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Student of the Year winner Jemma Sharp receives her award.

Innovative building services projects were commended by experts in the sector at the 9th Annual Awards of the Commissioning Specialists Association (CSA).

The Leonardo Royal Hotel City, overlooking the Tower of London and the River Thames played host to the presentation dinner, during which awards were presented in nine categories, recognising professional endeavour, product innovation, skills development, engineering prowess and service delivery.

Finalists & Winners

The judging process combined the remote assessment and scoring of each entry with a virtual gathering of the judging panel. Some 36 finalists across the nine award categories were in the running, and the individual category Winners are listed below.

Project of the Year – Sponsored by BSRIA Instrument Solutions

Finalists

  • ASHFORD ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES: Norton Folgate – Blossom Yard
  • BANYARDS: Lucent W1, One Sherwood Street, London
  • BANYARDS: Manchester Engineering Campus Development for The University of Manchester
  • CLEARTECH GROUP: GTR GB1 London
  • END SYSTEMS: Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

Winner

  • BANYARDS: Manchester Engineering Campus Development for The University of Manchester

Environmental Contribution Award – Sponsored by Media Control

Finalists

  • CRANE FLUID SYSTEMS: Dominator Eco
  • ENERGIRAVEN: RavenResidential
  • IWTM UK: Chemical free remediation of Data Centre

Winner

  • IWTM UK: Chemical free remediation of Data Centre

Commissioning Engineer of the Year – Sponsored by Ashford Environmental Services

Finalists

  • Jonathan Hunt: END SYSTEMS
  • Keiren Paton: H & V COMMISSIONING SERVICES
  • Colin Freestone: MEDIA CONTROL

Winner

  • Colin Freestone: MEDIA CONTROL

Commissioning Manager of the Year – Sponsored by Banyards

Finalists

  • Matt Phillips: CROWN HOUSE TECHNOLOGIES
  • Anthony Newton: END SYSTEMS
  • Jim Key: HDR
  • Kyri Michael: L&P GROUP
  • Martin Squire: L&P GROUP
  • Luke Tucker: L&P GROUP
  • Declan Riley: TAYLOR & STAPLETON

Winner

  • Matt Phillips: CROWN HOUSE TECHNOLOGIES

Commissioning Provider of the Year – Sponsored by Modern Building Services

Finalists

  • ASHFORD ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
  • BANYARDS
  • CLEARTECH GROUP
  • END SYSTEMS
  • HDR
  • MEDIA CONTROL
  • SYGNA

Winner

  • MEDIA CONTROL

Investment in Training Award – Sponsored by Core Emirates

Finalists

  • ASHFORD ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
  • END SYSTEMS
  • SAV: Advanced Service Engineer Training Scheme

Winner

  • END SYSTEMS

Diversity in Commissioning Award – Sponsored by HDR

Finalists

  • ASHFORD GROUP
  • BANYARDS

Winner

  • BANYARDS

Student of the Year – Sponsored by RED Engineering

Finalists

  • Chuck Han: AIRLAB
  • Jemma Sharp: AWE PLC
  • Lewis Macaree: END SYSTEMS
  • Joab Bedoyan: NG BAILEY

Winner

  • Jemma Sharp: AWE PLC

Special Contribution Award – Sponsored by CSA

Winners:

  • Joanne Rowe & Kate McIntyre

The main presentation ceremony was hosted by ITV’s Andrea Byrne, who also conducted an enthusiastically-supported game of ‘Higher or Lower ‘on behalf of the CSA’s elected charity for this event, Great Ormond Street Hospital. A total of £2605.00 was raised on the night, and the CSA extended sincere thanks to everyone who donated.  The event was rounded off with some live music performed by The Parachutes.

CSA Chairman, Keith Barker, commented: “This year’s awards programme proved to be another huge success and once again provided an excellent forum through which to celebrate business and professional excellence right across our sector.”

His colleague, and newly appointed CEO of the CSA, Neil Burdess, added:” This year’s entry submissions were of an extremely high calibre, making the whole judging process extremely challenging. In most cases, the points differential was minimal, with the Judges commenting on both the quality and variety of entries. I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to all those who took the trouble to enter and would urge everyone engaged in the commissioning arena to consider the commercial value that this activity can bring to their business, and ensure they are suitably represented at future events.”

The call for nominations for the 2025 CSA Awards will open early in the New Year. Please visit the website for further details. Entries are sought across the nine categories, which cover the achievements of both companies and the individuals working within them.

For the awards dinner itself, individual places, or tables of ten are available. For more information, visit the website www.csa-awards.co.uk or contact the awards programme producers, Touchwave Media, by phone on 07785 290034 or by email at andrew@touchwavemedia.co.uk.