Built environment award
Sponsored by Halcrow Yolles
This category includes electrical systems and equipment installed and operated in buildings of all types.
The four main application areas included are:
1. Building electrical distribution
- Power distribution
- Standby generation and UPS
- Lighting, emergency lighting, and lighting protection
- Earthing and bonding
- Power quality (such as harmonics and electric heating e.g. under floor)
2. Intelligent & green buildings
- Intelligent environmental management systems
- Sustainable energy generation & management
- Systems integration
- Embedded sensor technology
- Combined heat & power (CHP)
- Energy efficiency
3. Specialised systems
- IT systems in buildings
- Security & fire systems
- Hazardous areas
- Vertical transportation
- Care & well-being support systems
- Communications, entertainment & computing systems
- Horizontal transportation (such as “travelators” and electro-magnetics including shielding and testing)
4. Building management & control
- Building management systems
- Access & security control
- Asset management
- Systems installation, commissioning & testing
- Cable management
- Value engineering & management
- Electrical safety
