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... This report, addressed to one particular issue of design quality, inevitably touches upon many others: How can federal government agencies, acting as the prospective owners of buildings and stewards of the public's investment, assure that the work done to design those buildings is of the highest possible quality? The fourteen federal agency sponsors of the Federal Construction Council requested that the Building Research Board (BRB)
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... Chapter 2 is a review of background information and the committee's discussions framing the issue of quality of design in federal building.S Chapter 3 summarizes the workshop. Chapter 4 presents the committee's principal findings and recommends ways federal agencies might improve their ability to assure high quality in their buildings' design.
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