In 1984 he set up William Bordass Associates to do research, strategy, monitoring and troubleshooting on the performance of existing, new and historic buildings. The included overseeing the monitoring of energy demonstration projects in commercial buildings including heat pumps and CHP, studies of environments in the roof spaces of historic buildings, case studies of energy use in offices, and research management for the Building Research Establishment into lower-energy buildings and more user-friendly controls. From 1995-2002 he also worked on the twenty PROBE studies of the actual performance in use of recently-completed buildings, which were published in the CIBSE Journal.

In 2000 he helped to set up the Usable Buildings Trust charity, which undertakes research and collects and disseminates information on how buildings actually work. Projects include helping to develop the Display Energy Certificate system for public and commercial buildings in the UK and EU, the associated Landlord’s Energy Statement. He has also worked on energy benchmarking systems in Australia and California. To encourage and assist clients, designers and builders to focus on in-use performance, he helped to develop the Soft Landings process and a culture of New Professionalism. Recently he has been working with the Better Buildings Partnership to its Design for Performance scheme, which aims to eliminate the notorious gaps between design estimates and in-use performance for new and refurbished buildings, starting with prime rented offices. He received CIBSE’s low-carbon pioneer award in 2008 and an OBE in 2013.

In 2020 he is developing a new charity, the Do It Now Foundation, which will bring together people who are undertaking building projects that aim to be simpler, better and more sustainable.

Senior Lecturer in Coventry University and involved with Building Services teaching programme (1995 to 2000).
Currently teaching in Dundalk Institute of Technology (since 2002) in the areas of solar energy, energy use in buildings, thermodynamics, and HVAC systems. Research active and member of CREDIT (centre of renewable energy at Dundalk IT) who were instrumental in installing the first large campus based wind turbine (850 kW) in the World (2005).
Completed a book for CIBSE on indoor air quality and ventilation in 2011 (KS17: Indoor Air Quality & Ventilation).
External examiner for Waterford, and Letterkenny Institute of Technologies and active external reviewer of mechanical engineering courses for Engineers Ireland.

Through editorial leadership and conference platform activity, Lyn has played an influential thought-leadership role at the heart of the global wind power business for the best part of 35 years. Following the successful sale of Windpower Monthly to Haymarket Business Media in London she founded InsightWind in 2012 as an expert knowledge centre for information on wind power, the industry and its markets, with a focus on communications activity.

Lyn is a qualified British journalist with more than 40 years experience in media and public relations. Passionate about maintaining and furthering the science and art of excellent journalism, Lyn applies her 35 years of editing experience to mentoring writers and editors and applying finishing touches to stories in the pre-press process. She also advises mainly energy companies, but also policy specialists and law makers, on their outward communications.

As Editorial Director for the FORESIGHT range of publications since 2016, including FORESIGHT Climate & Energy and FORESIGHT Global Health, Lyn draws on a lifetime of journalistic experience and involvement in business start-ups to advise and mentor the editorial and publishing teams.

Lyn moved from England to Denmark in 1982 where she founded a media consultancy to drive excellence in good (English) communications. The Danish wind industry was an early beneficiary. Her Danish husband is a former chief editor of photography and graphics at Denmark’s largest newspaper, once a virulent anti-wind power publication. She is the excessively proud mother and step-mother of two frighteningly successful kids, both of whom have made and continue to make transformative contributions to facilitating the energy transition.

Lyn keeps sane in this crazy world with frequent golf and tennis, having given up yacht racing and competitive horse riding on the advice of long suffering surgeons who keep her going with titanium replacements for worn out and broken parts. She skis and hikes mountain trails during winter months spent at the alternative “home office” in southern Spain.

In 1967, he moved one of British Gas's R&D centres in London, where he was responsible for failure investigation of steam reformers. With the introduction of natural gas, steam reforming largely disappeared, and much of the focus in British Gas R&D switched to developing processes for making substitute natural gas (SNG) from coal and heavy oil. With these, high temperature corrosion was a serious issue, and Fred’s job was to develop alloys capable of resisting attack. This work lasted until about 1985, when all work on SNG stopped, as did the research into high temperature corrosion. Instead, Fred was encouraged to develop concepts for generating electricity using natural gas as a fuel, which is how the British Gas Stirling engine programme started.

Another project initiated by Fred, the closed cycle gas turbine, was vital to his future when in 2004, well after he had left British Gas, he joined the EU’s Institute for Energy, at Petten, in the Netherlands. Here he became their technical specialist on IGCC plants for making hydrogen from coal. He was also responsible for acting as an observer in the implementation of the EU’s Cogeneration Directive. He left Petten in 2007 and has continued to take a deep interest in the British energy scene, including supporting wind energy. Fred regards himself as a late developer, getting his PhD in 2007 and becoming a member of the IMechE, last year.