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Welcome to The Edge'The Edge' is dedicated to addressing important political, social and professional issues. It seeks to stimulate public interest in policy questions that affect the built environment, and to inform and influence public opinion. It was established with support from the Arup Foundation. Presently it is sponsored by the Carbon Trust.
Mikhail Gorbachev, President of Green Cross International meets with Edge members Prof Paul Jowitt and Adam Poole during recent London visit. Green Cross International is principally concerned with issues arising from global water shortages and with the Millennium Development goals It developed from a joint Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Institute of British Architects seminar in "Shaping the 21st Century" (May 1995). At this seminar delegates were invited to consider how the two professions could fruitfully collaborate to influence public policy on matters related to the built environment. The group started by focusing on energy and sustainability and so expanded to embrace the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). The Edge is not tethered to any parent body and is free to express
radical and original views. All three institutions are able to use
The Edge as a means of promoting public debate and interest in architectural
and engineering issues without committing themselves to the particular
points of view expressed. Above all, The Edge provides a continuing
way of stimulating a joint architectural and engineering debate
at the highest level and in the public interest.
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