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The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Find registered designs in the UK
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Anyone has the right to object and challenge someone else’s design.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
Guidance on the grant to provide additional support to 21 areas producing exemplar design codes.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
The musculoskeletal disorders risk reduction through design award aims to inspire employers to make changes that reduce the risks of harm to their workers
Includes registering, protecting and applying for designs and patents
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
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