3 Understand Finishes

3 Understand Importance of Detail

3 Understand importance Murals, Fittings, furniture

3. Understand importance of historic detail

4 Employ specialists

4 Employ specialistsUnderstanding complex groupings

Model Farm Finnebrogue- the sum of all the elements

4. Employ specialistsCraftsmanship

4. Employ specialists Highly skilled work

5 Anticipate requirementsBin storage/ parking

5 Anticipate boundaries

5 Anticipate signage/access

5 AnticipateServices

5 AnticipateServices

5 Ascertain compatibility of uses

5 Assess archaeology

5 Assess Potential for loss of detail

5 AssessAccess solutions

5 Assessmodel solutions for access

5 Anticipate energy requirements

5 Assess neighbourhoodHarmony of streetscape

5 Anticipate timeframes

5 Anticipate Timeframes

6 Sources of helpNIEA technical notes

6. Sources of helpBuilding control requirements

Pointers to a successful conservation project 1. Research your building 2. Stick to the Principles of Conservation 3. Understand your building fabric 4. Employ specialists and competent

professionals and contractors 5. Anticipate issues 6. Keep in regular contact with NIEA and

other sources of help

Our Commitment NIEA are here to help share in the process

to manage change on the basis of clear understanding, to ensure that historic places are sustained for future generations. These concepts are rooted in a need for good and improving communication between you who own and manage historic buildings, ourselves, the professions and the public.

Our Role From ‘A good doctor’ by John Knight

The common currency of what we do.. The length and breadth of the country is firstly to respect the building’s character and individual attributes that are a vital part of the story it has to tell; not to seek change for the sake of mere improvement or fashion; secondly to study and analyse the strengths and weaknesses thoroughly; and finally to mend invisibly those defects that threaten to destroy it…

From ‘A good doctor’ by John Knight

It should be left looking cherished but not compromised, healed but not rejuvenated for there is no mandate to do otherwise

From ‘A good doctor’ by John Knight