Edge Research Workstream

the Edge believes strongly in the importance of research in the built and natural environment sector and the need to connect the practice, policy-making and research communities in teh sector more closely together. In particular the Edge is promoting the need for a National Built Environment Research Organisation (NBERO) with Public Sector Research Establishment (PSRE) status and has held a number of events to explore and develop proposals for this.

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

• Edge Debate 201: Who's Afraid of Good Research and Information? - 22nd September 2026

• Edge Debate 187: Why the UK needs a National Built Environment Research Organisation

• Edge Roundtable 171 on an independent national built environment research organisation

• Edge Debate 77: Not invented here! R&D in Construction - 9th November 2016

• Edge Debate 66: Is it a Problem that Practice and Research do not Connect? - 9th February 2015

• Edge Debate #19 - Feedback: Why don’t we learn? - 12th May 2003

  Downloads:

• the Edge. (2024). Building Competence and Capability: The case for a Public Sector Research Establishment for the Built Environment.