Architecture firms have been warned that new restrictions on working for Russian clients based in their home nation – or those ordinarily resident there – have come into effect in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

UK firms are now banned from offering architectural-design services, pre-design services, and urban-planning and landscape services to clients in Russia under regulations that expand the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.

The rules, which went live on Friday, also cover combined architectural-design and contract-administration services, and urban planning services.

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