Campus building specifications collection. 1956-1958.

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Campus building specifications collection. 1956-1958.

Collection consists of thirteen bound reports (and two addenda) of building specifications - heating and ventilation, architectural, and plumbing - for the following buildings: Chemistry (additions), Biological Sciences (additions), Men's Residence (Block 3), University Social Centre and Faculty Club, International House, and the New Arts Building Group (later the Buchanan Building). The reports were each prepared by either the mechanical engineering consulting firm of C.W. Thomson & Company Ltd, the University's architects Thompson, Berwick & Pratt, or Fred Lasserre, Koyander & Wright - Associated Architects.

12 cm of textual material.

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University of British Columbia.

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Richmond, William, -1823

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William Osborn Richmond was born in Rouleau, Saskatchewan in 1907. After completing degrees at UBC (BASc) and Pittsburgh (MS), he returned to UBC to teach in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, becoming Department Head in 1950. He retired in the early 1970's. From the description of Campus building specifications collection. 1956-1958. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606468019 ...