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Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Includes chapters on applications, modification, priority and convention claims, illustrations and disclaimers.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Outline of the design approach taken to various aspects of the baseline designs
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
Get endorsement and approval to apply for the Global Talent visa to work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture - architecture, fashion, film, television.
Guidance for GOV.UK content publishers on how to use images and make them accessible. This chapter also includes the copyright standards for GOV.UK.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
The team capabilities available on the Digital Outcomes framework.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
The Design Council was a non-departmental public body of BIS, but is now an independent organisation
One-day GDS Academy course on the importance of research and design in government.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
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