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maintenance, to name but a few aspects that are considered when a product is evaluated for Designmark.

We find that the design qualification provides a useful measure of product efficiency, when judged by a highly-qualified panel. Included in the items carrying the Designmark label, and on display at the centre, are such things as baths with specially designed vanity-shelves, tem-perature-controlled shower valves, garage doors, aluminium joinery, roofing tiles, curtain tracking, and interlocking concrete paving stones. The Centre has produced, for free distribution, a small brochure identifying and locating the various Designmark products on display. These will help members of the public to study the specific features considered by the adjudicators as meriting the design award. We must however qualify our comments on Designmark products in one respect. In no way must it be considered that a prodcct not bearing Designmark is in any way inferior, when compared to a similar one carrying the award. Many companies following a continuing policy of product development, for instance, tend to work towards a complete, speicalised product group, before applying for Designmark. Your Building Centre, supports in the widest

sense, the principles of good design as recognised by the award of Designmark, and will continue to encourage the widening of its application.