Interview Head to head
Can architects and building services engineers really work
Sunand Prasad (right),
president of RIBA, debates
together to push the boundaries of sustainability, or will
the future of the industry
with CIBSE president
they always be in separate bunkers? Bob Cervi quizzes the
Mike Simpson
presidents of RIBA and CIBSE
Q: Can we push the boundaries of sustainability in are impediments to sustainability – this costs money,
the built environment without much more project we want to spend the money, and the best way to get the
bridges
teamwork, particularly between architects, engineers client to spend the money is to enshrine sustainability
and contractors? in regulations.”
Sunand Prasad, president of the Royal Institute Mike Simpson, president of the Chartered Institution
of British Architects: “I see the role of the architect of Building Services Engineers: “It is about following the
on this issue as asking the questions. You can have client. But I do believe that engineers have to raise their
different roles and still be equal. The distinct job that game, because they have an enormous responsibility for
architects are trained to do is to orchestrate and co- sustainability. One of my fears is that, as we go through
ordinate the whole. This is not what they teach you this recession, extra money for sustainability will be taken
to do in engineering disciplines. That’s a great thing. off the budget.”
We should not have a hierarchy but we should have a SP: “It is in the very nature of professionals and
division of labour. None of us [engineers and architects] consultants that we are advocates. We can complain, we >
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