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Useful Links

ACES - Association of Chief Estates Surveyors and Property Managers in Local Government
Audit Commission - includes links to "Seeing is Believing"
BERR - Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
CBSS - Chief Building Surveyors Society
CT News - keeping you up-to-date with the latest developments in the Carbon Trust Innovation Awards
COI Central office for information - Government Press Releases
CHAS - Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme
Construction Plus - The CIC Cascade is prepared by Construction Plus - the leading supplier of online industry news from the publishers of the Architects' Journal, Construction News and New Civil Engineer
CONSTRUCT I.T. - Centre of Excellence, The National Network at The School of Construction and Property Management, The University of Salford
COPROP The Association of Chief Corporate Property Officers in Local Government
CIRIA - Construction Productivity Network
CITE - Construction Industry Trading Electronically
CJC - Commissioning Joint Committee
Considerate Constructors Scheme - A national initiative that aims to raise the standards of construction management and community relations above statutory requirements.
CLAW - Consortium Local Authorities Wales
Constructionline - U K Register of Qualified Construction Services
Construction Skills Certification Scheme - CSCS aims to register every competent construction operative within the UK not currently on a skills registration scheme. Operatives will get an individual registration card (similar to a credit card) which lasts for three or five years. The CSCS card also provides evidence that the holder has undergone health and safety awareness training or testing
DfES - Department for Education and Skills
Directgov - The official government website for citizens
FPS - Federation of Property Societies
HSE - Health and Safety Executive
Hazards at Work (HSE) - Asbestos publications
Inland Revenue
JCT - Joint Contracts Tribunal Limited
J R Knowles - Construction Legal Cases
Local Government Task Force
KPIZone - This website has been upgraded and now contains links to access all published KPIs and provides details of all performance measurement and benchmarking activity, with a sophisticated search engine designed to assist new and existing users. It is the first step to making many of the KPIs available on the web
LGA - Local Government Association
m4i - Movement for Innovation
NSR Management - National Schedule of Rates
OGC - Office of Government Commerce
OFSTED
OPSI - Office of Public Sector Information
PPP Bulletin
RICS - The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
SCALA - Society of Chief Architects of Local Authorities. Serving Construction & Architecture in Local Authorities
Traditional Housing Bureau - The THB is an organisation formed to promote the use of traditional brick and block construction methods for houses built in the UK
UpMyStreet - UpMyStreet is a website that provides geographical statistics and information on any area within the UK. It has an easy to use interface, you simply enter the postcode of the area that you wish to find out information on and it than produces a list of various facts and figures. If you don't know the postcode of the area that you wish to research, you can use postcode finder a service by the Royal Mail.