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• Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread

  The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.

  • Updated: 18 September 2024
• Find a registered design

  Find registered designs in the UK
• Applying for a completion certificate

  How to apply for a full or partial completion certificate after building work on a higher-risk building has been completed.

  • Updated: 27 March 2025
• Register a design

  Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
• Work in the UK as a leader in arts and culture (Global Talent visa)

  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.
• How your unregistered designs are protected

  The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
• Industrial Energy Transformation Fund

  The Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF) supports the development and deployment of technologies that enable businesses with high energy use to transition to a low carbon future.

  • Updated: 3 July 2025
• Renew your registered design

  You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
• School and Further Education College Design and Construction

  Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.

  • Updated: 5 September 2022
• Renew a patent, trade mark or registered design

  How to renew your patents, trade marks or registered designs: when to renew, how to renew online or renew and restore by post, how much it costs.