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Records of the Directorate of Civil Engineering Services
Catalogue reference: Division within CM
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Records of the Directorate of Civil Engineering Services of the Property Services Agency concerning the setting and maintenance of civil engineering standards in maritime engineering, airfields, geotechnics, structural engineering and land and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within CM
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Directorate of Civil Engineering Services
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1954-1977
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Directorate of Civil Engineering Services of the Property Services Agency concerning the setting and maintenance of civil engineering standards in maritime engineering, airfields, geotechnics, structural engineering and land and hydrographic survey.
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Ministry of Public Building and Works, 1962-1970
- Ministry of Works, 1943-1962
- Property Services Agency, Directorate of Civil Engineering Services, 1972-1990
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 series
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Property Holdings, PSA Services , from 1994
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Construction industries
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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In 1982 the agency's civil engineering laboratory was transferred to the Building Research Establishment.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1274/
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