The CIBSE MENA Awards 2026 celebrated outstanding achievement, innovation and impact across the building engineering profession in the Middle East and North Africa at a prestigious ceremony at the W Hotel at Palm Jumeirah, Dubai.
Organised by CIBSE in collaboration with the CIBSE MENA Region, the awards recognised the individuals, projects, organisations and innovations helping to shape the future of the built environment across the region.
The awards reflect CIBSE’s growing engagement across the MENA region and its commitment to recognising excellence and best practice across the building services profession.
From major infrastructure and data centre projects to sustainable design, digital innovation and emerging engineering talent, the 2026 awards showcased the breadth and depth of work being delivered across MENA.
The awards recognised achievements across project, individual, executive, company, initiative and product categories, highlighting the contribution of engineers and organisations to more sustainable, resilient, efficient and high-performing buildings.
The 2026 winners and highly commended entries were:
Project awards
Project of the Year
Winner: Zayed National Museum – WSP Middle East
Highly Commended: Aquarabia, Qiddiya City – Ramboll
Highly Commended: Sharjah Marine Research Institute, University of Khorfakkan – Arup
Mechanical Project of the Year
Winner: King Salman Park Water Treatment Complex – Egis Engineering Consultants
Highly Commended: Aquarabia, Qiddiya City – Ramboll
Highly Commended: Zayed National Museum – WSP Middle East
Electrical Project of the Year
Winner: Water Treatment Complex at King Salman Park – Egis Engineering Consultants
Highly Commended: Aquarabia, Qiddiya City – Ramboll
Highly Commended: Refurbishment at The American University in Cairo – Tridonic
Plumbing Project of the Year
Winner: King Salman Park Water Treatment Complex – Egis Engineering Consultants
Highly Commended: Zayed National Museum – WSP Middle East
Highly Commended: Aquarabia, Qiddiya City – Ramboll
Sustainable Project of the Year
Winner: Moro Data Center Phase 3 – Meinhardt Group
Highly Commended: Rixos Al Mairid Solar Thermal Decarbonisation – SolarisKit HelioPro – SolarisKit
Retrofit Project of the Year
Winner: Dubai Municipality Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Program
Highly Commended: Five Hotel Palm Jumeirah – DCServe Equipment Trading LLC
Smart Project of the Year
Winner: Cundall-Schneider Electric
Highly Commended: Meinhardt Group – Moro Data Center Phase 3
Sustainable Facade Lighting Project of the Year
Winner: Traxon e:cue
Sustainable Lighting Project of the Year
Winner: Thorn Lighting – AMAALA Utilities
Datacentre Project of the Year – Consultant
Winner: Meinhardt Group – Moro Data Center 3.0
Datacentre Project of the Year – Contractor
Winner: Khazna DXB9 Project – BK Gulf LLC
Individual awards
Graduate of the Year
Winner: Hana Engida – Red Engineering Design
Highly Commended: Athiya Junaid – WSP
Highly Commended: Mohamed Aqeel Cheru Veedu – Egis Engineering
Young Engineer of the Year
Winner: Josephine Jane Joseph – Arup
Highly Commended: Reha Hansraj – Egis Engineering Consultants
Highly Commended: Bushra Siddiqua Oosman – RED Engineering Design
Mechanical Engineer of the Year
Winner: Ghassan Almotasib – Egis Engineering Consultants
Highly Commended: Gokul Sundaresan – DCServe Equipment Trading LLC
Highly Commended: Sundaram Karuppaiah – Buro Happold
Electrical Engineer of the Year
Winner: Prabhu Thirugnanam – Arup Gulf Limited
Highly Commended: Roshan Thomas Koshy – Arab Engineering Bureau
Highly Commended: Mohamed Baioumy – Egis Engineering Consultants
Plumbing Engineer of the Year
Winner: Nagarajan Thanu – Consistent Engineering Consultants LLC, UAE
Highly Commended: Danish Idrees – Meinhardt Group
Highly Commended: Musharib Mohammad Khan – Subana Consultants Pte Ltd – Dubai Branch (SJ Group)
Sustainability Engineer of the Year
Winner: Roaa Babiker – Buro Happold
Highly Commended: Dr Faisal Ghani – SolarisKit
Highly Commended: Jayaprakash Murali – Meinhardt Group
Woman Professional of the Year
Winner: Sheeba Benny – Stantec Middle East Limited
Highly Commended: Farah Kais – WSP Middle East
Highly Commended: Sarah Hussain Zahidi – Qcloud
Executive and management awards
Engineer – Manufacturer or Supplier of the Year
Winner: Nizar Hamed – FJ Energy Solutions
Highly Commended: Kim George Joseph – Century Mechanical Systems Factory LLC
Highly Commended: Vyshakh Rajan – Century Mechanical Systems Factory LLC
Executive – Manufacturer and Supplier of the Year
Winner: Quresh Motiwala – Leminar Air Conditioning Industries LLC
Executive – Contractor of the Year
Winner: Satayef Kassab Bashi – Geco M&E Ltd
Highly Commended: Samiuddin Mohammad – FujSeng Construction LLC
Executive – Consultancy of the Year
Winner: Nicholas Byczynski – AESG
Highly Commended: Imran Siddiqui – Meinhardt Group
Highly Commended: Abdul Ahamed Sab – Al Bawani CC
Company and team awards
MEP Consultancy of the Year
Winner: Cundall
Highly Commended: Ramboll
Highly Commended: Egis Engineering Consultants
MEP Contractor of the Year
Winner: BK Gulf LLC
Highly Commended: FujSeng Construction LLC
VT Consultancy of the Year
Winner: Soydan VT Consultancy
VT Manufacturer of the Year
Winner: Otis Elevator Co
Supplier of the Year
Winner: CMS GLOBAL
Highly Commended: FJ Energy Solutions
Highly Commended: Frontier Pitts Middle East
Manufacturer of the Year Award – Sustainability Impact
Winner: Central Ventilation Systems (CVS)
Highly Commended: Leminar Air Conditioning Industries LLC
Highly Commended: Grundfos Gulf Distribution FZE
Manufacturer of the Year Award – Technology Excellence
Winner: Rheem Centurion VRF with Hot Water Calorifier & Heat Reclaim System
Highly Commended: LEGIOMIX®evo 6003 series – Caleffi Hydronic Solutions
Highly Commended: Vertiv™ CoolChip CDU – Vertiv
Initiatives and product innovations
Digital Innovation Initiative of the Year – Consultants
Winner: Automated MEP Design Suite – Design Solutions Inc
Highly Commended: Intelligent Digital BIM Engineering Excellence – Meinhardt Group
Highly Commended: The Automation of Ventilation and Air Conditioning Design – Arup
Embodied Carbon Initiative of the Year – Manufacturer and Suppliers
Winner: CVS-Novenco
Highly Commended: Faisal Jassim Industries LLC (FJI) – Aquaflo Pumps and Systems (APS)
Embodied Carbon Initiative of the Year – Consultants
Winner: Egis Engineering Consultants
Highly Commended: Design Solutions Inc
Innovative Lighting Product of the Year
Winner: Trilux Middle East FZCO
Highly Commended: Geiode Lighting
Digital Innovation Initiative of the Year – Universities
Winner: Renewable Energy Engineering – University of Birmingham, Dubai
Highly Commended: Building Climate Leaders – Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai
Student Design Competition
Winner: Oasis DIAC - Higher College of Technology, Dubai
Runner-up: District Futura - University of Birmingham, Dubai
Second Runner-up: Team Nova, Manipal University, Dubai
Recognising the region’s engineering community
The CIBSE MENA Awards 2026 demonstrated the breadth of expertise and innovation across the region’s building engineering community, recognising work that is helping to raise standards in sustainability, performance, technology and professional practice.
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to all of our CIBSE MENA Awards 2026 sponsors for their invaluable support in making this event possible. A special thank you goes to our Headline Sponsor, FJ Group, as well as our Deluxe Sponsors CVS, Polypipe Middle East, and Victaulic for their generous commitment. We are equally grateful to our Gold Sponsors, including BK Gulf LLC, egis, +GF+, Hira Industries, Mechartés, Meinhardt Group, SEED, Viega, Watertec Global, Zumtobel and media partner CPI Industry whose partnership plays a vital role in celebrating excellence across our industry.
CIBSE congratulates all the 2026 winners and highly commended entries for their achievements and contribution to the profession.
To view the full photo gallery from the event, visit CIBSE MENA Awards 2026 | Flickr