Traditional Building Craft Skills Research

Traditional Building Craft Skills Research

This is the first major primary research of traditional building craft skills in the built heritage sector for the whole of Ireland and similar research reports are available for Scotland, Wales, England and the UK as a whole. This report provides up-to-date statistical data on traditional building craft skills in Ireland, thus completing the UK-wide picture on this sector and extending the research to cover the Republic of Ireland. The purpose of this analysis of the Built Heritage Sector in Ireland was to:

* Understand the place of traditional buildings in the cultures of each of the two countries
* Understand the influence of legislation, conservation groups and building professionals
* Analyse and quantify supply and demand in the sector and identify specific skills shortages
* Assess the material supply chain and related skill issues for manufacturers and suppliers of traditional building materials
* Assess current training provision

NHTG_skillsresearch_Ireland_2009_fullreport.pdf

NHTG_skillsresearch_Ireland_2009_summaryreport.pdf