Congratulations Sasha!

Steering group member Sasha Krstanovic has been awarded Building Performance Engineer of the Year. This award recognizes and rewards the contributions of practicing building services engineers in creating and maintaining a sustainable built environment, celebrating individuals who have made an outstanding impact on the field of building services engineering.

Sasha wants her legacy to be for the generations coming after. She impressed the judges with her enthusiasm for inspiring the next generation of engineers to take an active role in building performance. They described her proactive approach to informal post-occupancy evaluation (POE) as unique, allowing her to discover and ameliorate issues, particularly in innovative systems. They felt Sasha’s passion for the role of engineers in mitigating climate change makes her a great ambassador for CIBSE, able to communicate current and future issues facing our sector.

‘Sasha’s view that the challenges we face as an industry must be tackled, not only with our skills, but with a completely different mindset change, is very refreshing and inspiring,’ the judges said. 
In an industry with few female role models in leadership positions, Sasha has broken the mould – a director, chartered engineer and Fellow of CIBSE. .

As an experienced designer, she challenges the norm, and has delivered exemplar low energy/carbon projects, including:

• University of Nottingham, Energy Technology Building – world’s first zero-carbon laboratory
• The Apex, Bury St Edmunds – a music auditorium heated and cooled by an underground lake
• The Turnmill – London’s first speculative commercial office to rely solely on ground source heat pumps for heating and cooling.