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Jack Coughlan Associates is accredited as a Grade I practice in the RIAI Conservation Accreditation Scheme, is on the panel of architectural conservation consultants for the Heritage Council, and for the Dúchas National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The RIAI Silver Medal for Conservation was awarded to the conservation and re-use of Fenn’s Quay, Cork’s earliest terrace, in 2005. The practice is also used for conservation consultancy work by a number of local authorities.
Jack Coughlan Associates is an established broad based architectural practice with offices in Cork and Dublin. Following his involvement in a number of conservation projects, and completion of the Master of Urban and Building Conservation degree in UCD, Jack Coughlan decided to develop a specialist conservation section within the practice. The conservation section now employs five specialist staff, including two additional architects and two architectural historians with postgraduate conservation qualifications. The practice has deliberately sought to bring together a wide range of experience in various areas of conservation, including specialist experience in stone conservation, plaster conservation and inventory recording and management, providing an exceptionally high level of expertise in-house. Extensive inventory recording experience has provided the practice with a sound understanding of the history and development of architecture in Ireland, while international experience from a number of practice members adds an additional level of understanding of the conservation process. |
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