Edge Professionalism Workstream

Over its lifetime the Edge has focussed on issues of professionalism in the design and construction industries. This work has included debates and publications, but notably the Edge Commission of Inquiry on the Future of Professionalism held in 2014 and chaired by the Government’s former Chief Construction Advisor, Paul Morrell. The Commission led to the publication of Collaboration for Change (2015), authored by Morrell and reissued in a second edition in 2020.

This page brings together many of the Edge’s inititatives on the subject.

• Edge at Futurebuild #3 - The Future Practice Challenge - Connecting education, research, practice and professionalism – 13.30, 6th March 2019

• Edge Debate 84: Professionalism - asset or obstacle?

• Edge @ Ecobuild 2018 #4 Who Do We Build For? Ethics, Public Interest, and a Shared Code of Conduct

• Edge Ecobuild Debate: Construction leadership and a vision for the future

• Collaboration for Change: Manchester

• Collaboration for Change - Reading

• Collaboration for Change - Oxford

• Edge Debate #70 Does Built Environment Policy Work? And How Should Professionals Engage?

• Launch of Collaboration for Change: The Edge Commission Report on the Future of Professionalism

• Debate 63: Edge Commission of Inquiry on Future Professionalism Session 4: Future Value

• Debate 62: Edge Commission of Inquiry on Future Professionalism Session 3: Society

• Debate 61: Edge Commission of Inquiry on Future Professionalism Session 2: The Economy.

• Debate 60: Edge Commission of Inquiry on Future Professionalism Session 1: The Environment

• Edge Commission on future professionalism - further reading

• Edge Debate 58 - Is creating an Institute of the Built Environment the answer to a ‘fragmented and ineffective’ industry?

• Edge Debate 54 – A New Professionalism?

• Debate 46 - What does it mean to be a building professional in the 21st century?

• Debate 6 - The Good Institution(s)