Edge Articles
Edge Articles and Thoughts
Five Edge initiatives intended to achieve major change for people and the environment, August 2024
Links to articles and other media that Edge members have recommended as essential reading:
Panning for Gold, Paddy Conaghan, CIBSE Journal, February 2015
Pandering to bamboo: On skyscrapers made out of wood, The Architectural Review, October 2014
A job for everyone: What should full employment mean in 21st century Britain? - IPPR
Chris Jofeh - Resources / Climate challenge demands brave leadership, @Arup.com
The World Energy Trilemma 2012 report from the World Energy Council
YouTube link to a short film, ‘Confronting the Status Quo’ featuring Dr Susan Krumdieck. The return of Malthus?
Digital artist Salvatore Iaconesi hacked his medical records to put them online in a global search for the best treatments 31st October 2012
David Gann and Ammon Salter’s paper on Project baronies; growth and governance in the project-based firm 31st October 2012
Carbon Visuals’ Real time video of New York City’s carbon emissions 30th October 2012
Article on open access by a MPhil student from the Dept of Medicine in a student science magazine from Cambridge called Bluesci 30th October 2012
Edge thoughts on various topics:
Thought 21 - Three proposals for DLUHC Net Zero Round Table, November 2021
Thought 20 - Green Recovery Planning, April 2020
Thought 19 - A New Framework for Energy Performance of New Homes, February 2016
Thought 17 - Edge response to Place Alliance discussion paper - August 2014
Thought 16 - Edge proposals for housing in London - May 2014
Thought 15 — Edge response to Agenda 15 - February 2014
Thought 14 — The Edge response to The Green Deal - January 2014
Thought 13 — Robin Nicholson on the Edge - Marlow FM 21st January 2013
Thought 12 — A shared Professional Code
Thought 11 — Notes from COP18
Thought 10 — Engineering Timelines
Thought 09 — Educating Architects
Thought 08 — New Sky Thinking
Thought 07 — Innovation, Knowledge Capture and Dissemination
Thought 06 — The Extraordinary Challenge : Think – Share – Do
Thought 05 — Edge Response to IGT ‘Emerging Findings’ Report
Thought 04 — First Thoughts on Carbon Trust’s Draft IGT Incentives for Action — Non-Domestic Building Sector
Thought 03 — Fixing the Housing Stock — UK’s Big Challenge
Thought 02 — Do we need MVHR systems for our new generation of super-insulated homes?
Thought 01 — Government policy on eco-towns doesn’t consider the wider community
Edge Letters
Letters from the Edge … & its members
February 2013 - published in The Independent , 12th February 2013.
Letter to the Editor : Our red tape
“This was based on my gruesome experience with Display Energy Certificates, including the latest setback where the modifications made by DCLG in January (with no consultation, apart from the accreditation agencies which of course have an interest in promoting inane box-ticking procedures) increase the bureaucracy whilst subtracting value and creating confusion by meeting the letter of the recast Directive whilst totally ignoring the spirit.”
With luck it will stimulate more correspondence, but since it was at the bottom right hand corner of the page, I imagine the Editor is more likely to have regarded it as the closing letter on that particular topic.” - Bill Bordass
January 2012 - published in TES magazine, 10 February 2012 … see www.tes.co.uk
Letter to the Editor : BREEAM
pdf download, see also the letter below
January 2012
Letter to the Sec. of State, Dept. of Education : BREEAM
in support of a letter from the UK Green Building Council and the Aldersgate Group
pdf downloads
REPLY : 14.02.12
pdf download
December 2011 - published in The Telegraph, 15 December 2011
Letter to the Editor : Low-carbon buildings
December 2011
Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer : Environmental regulation
pdf download
Edge Blogs
Several members of the Edge post regular blogs written for the Edge, Building magazine and other sites.
These are collected here:
Lynne Sullivan OBE, SustainableBYDesign
4th March 2014 - We need to safeguard air quality in our homes
17 January 2014 - Why cutting operational carbon is the priority
24 December 2013 - The social value of good building
29 November 2013 - The challenge of providing public open space
31st October 2013 - Architectural education ignores the challenge of our time
30th September 2013 - Changing our culture for ‘deep’ retrofit
Robin Nicholson CBE, Cullinan Studio
25th November 2015 - Collaboration for Change: What progress with the Edge Commission Report?
20th February 2015 - Embodied Carbon: Allowable Solutions
8th May 2014 - Edge Commission begins to get some definition
10th March 2014 - Building a resilient future
3rd February 2014 - How can we decide where to invest?
13 December 2013 - Who has a sustainable vision in this government?
19th November 2013 - Have we wasted the latest good crisis?
14th October 2013 - Getting it right in Brazil
17 September 2013 - The power’s in the community
6 September 2013 - Are international sporting events unsustainable?
Bill Bordass OBE, William Bordass Associates
9 January 2014 - Can our politicians set a carbon saving example to the world?
27 November 2013 - Making up energy policy as we go along
23 October 2013 - Time for joined up thinking
18 September 2013 - Does anyone understand the performance gap?
Stephen Hill, C2O futureplanners
28 June 2013 - The Spirit of ’74: Disruptive Citizens…Your Country Needs YOU?