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The following are a selection of useful extracts from publications as well as the latest news from Clear Designs.

Clear Designs is delighted to inform our current and potential clients that we can now offer the service of being a member of the LABC Partner Authority Scheme. This partnering with Epping Forest Building Control Department ensures that we have only one contact for all our Building Control plan applications wherever they are within the country. This provides not only a more efficient service but more importantly a working relationship with our dedicated officer who is on hand for any technical questions we may have about the Building Regulations, this is especially practical as the construction industry moves into ever more sustainable design with new products and new building systems. We feel this is a great advantage to us as a practice and therefore an ultimate benefit to our clients.

Tips from Channel 4’s Grand Designs on how to approach selecting an architect, “An architect’s training is comparable in length and depth to that undergone by a surgeon … no one explains the vocabulary.  Why should anyone outside the profession know what ‘working drawings’ are?”

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/diyandbuilding/guides/grand_designers.html