The specification of local building products in Northern Ireland.
By: John Hendry, Perpetua McDonagh,Conall O'Cathain.
Contributors: McDonagh, Perpetua.; O'Cathain, Conall.; Queen's University of Belfast. Department of Architecture and Planning.
Publisher: Queen's University of Belfast, Dept of Architecture and Planning
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [Belfast]
Language: eng
Description: Following informal discussions with local architects and quantity surveyors, structured interviews were undertaken with selected architects' offices, using a standard questionnaire. Primarily this was intended to determine the extent to which local products were being specified, but it was also seen as a means of investigating the process by which products became known to architects, the way in which offices held and retrieved information, and the attitudes of architects to local manufacturers.
It was decided to prepare a comprehensive list of local building product manufacturers from existing sources. As the study progressed, this developed into the design and preparation of a searchable database of manufacturers and their respective product lists, into which information from various sources could be imported. (taken from page 3 of the Report).

Further information is available from Conall Ó Catháin
<conall@ocathain.org>

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