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AN international conference on building documentation will take place during October 6–15, 1949, in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe at the request of its Housing Sub-Committee. Mr. R. iltzmaurice, chairman of the E.C.E. Housing Sub-Granmittee, will be in the chair. Governments, international organisations and United Nations specialized agencies have been invited to send delegations of technical experts and of all the different groups of users of building documentation. The programme of the conference will deal with building documentation, defined as the recording, organisation and dissemination of information relating to building in all its aspects, and for this purpose the work will be divided between seven working parties which will consider respectively the scope and nature of the abstracts ; organisation of an international abstracting service; adoption and adaptation of the universal decimal classification ; filing systems ; recommendations for building publications ; official building publications ; and terminology. The aim of the conference is to propose steps to be taken in order to promote efficient building documentation and, thereby, better building at less cost ; in particular, the delegates will examine the need for an International Building Documentation Office and for an International Union of Building Documentation Committees, and the conditions under which such bodies could be set up to continue international co-operation. All recommendations agreed to at the conference will be sent to the Housing Sub-Committee so that the latter may forward them to Governments for implementation in their respective countries. All communications should be addressed to the Conference on Building Documentation, Economic Commission for Europe, Palais des Nations, Room 278, Geneva, Switzerland.
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International Conference on Building Documentation. Nature 164, 520 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164520d0
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