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We need to get
there very quickly –
we haven’t the time
to make mistakes
and to get feedback
from academia
20 years down
the line
“Plentiful data about design performance are out are expecting design and building teams to provide the Bill Bordass is concerned
there, in the field … our shame is that we do not make answers but, at present, we are not sufficiently skilled or
about a “bureaucratic
anything like enough use of them.” knowledgeable to do so effectively and reliably.
obstacle race”
We urgently need a ‘new professionalism’ that can We need to get there very quickly – we haven’t the
respond to the problem identified by Duffy: professionals time to make lots of mistakes and to get feedback
don’t just do a job, they exercise particular skills, and from academia 20 years down the line, when things
there is a public-interest dimension. Part of today’s will be very different anyway. We need much closer
public interest is making buildings more sustainable, engagement between all the levels of feedback.
low-energy and low-carbon. Politicians and the public Practice also needs to be closely coupled to research >
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