National sales manager recruited
USA: Tubelite recruited Mike Nicklas as a national sales manager helping grow the company's architectural aluminum products nationwide.
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New modular facade system
Aluminium systems specialist, Technal, has launched a new rapid-build facade system for low rise building applications – and the first in the UK to offer integral opening vents.
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Flushed with success
Architectural glazing systems designer Metal Technology, in partnership with Panel Systems, manufacturer of bespoke composite panels, has developed System 17 Cassette curtain walling, a cost-effective, flush-glazed facade.
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Secure choice
Comar Architectural’s 5P.i VSW has just passed BS7950 enhanced security for windows.
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Fabricator alliance established
A new trade alliance of window fabricators, which manufacture in aluminium and PVC-U, has been established.
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Composite windows chosen for Elite Development
Composite windows from Glas Facades’ range have been employed by a private developer on a pair of detached houses in London.
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New ownership for Carl F
Tommico (owners of Groupco) has bought Carl F Petersen, after Danish group Sanistaal sold some non-core operations.
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Anchor Trust in Mila
Mila Maintenance has just completed a nationwide contract to fit safety restrictors on all of the opening sashes in windows at care homes managed by Anchor Trust to eliminate any ongoing risk to its residents from open windows.
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Door to protection
ERA Security Hardware Solutions offers home security and safety protection for doors.
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Interbuild debut for vent system
Reynaers Aluminium displayed part of their extensive range of window and door systems at Interbuild 2009 and introduced two new products designed to improve ventilation.
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Contemporary aluminium
K2’s aluminium system has been designed with more modern installations in mind
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Maximising natural light and energy efficiency
Exterior sun shades intercept unwanted solar heat gain before it can impact a building's HVAC system's load.
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Hot off the press
New from Reynaers Aluminium is a range of fire resistant aluminium fenestration systems, fully compliant with European standards.
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Wegoma announces Italian deals
Wegoma GB has signed franchise deals with two major Italian machinery manufacturers – Italmac and P Macchine – that widen the company’s product portfolio and market opportunities for both its PVC-U and aluminium fabrication customers.
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Engraver’s new functions
Gravograph´s new mechanical engraving machine provides many new functions, including ‘point and shoot’, and handling of strips without length limits. IS 900 is designed for flat engraving of identification plates or cutting and engraving of sheets of any material, including aluminium.
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Building green
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) Chairman Artem Volynets has welcomed the launch of a new content-rich green architecture website, which high-lights the advantages of using aluminium in architectural design.
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Linked in
ERA Products has launched E-Link, a free quarterly email newsletter which includes product and industry news on everything security.
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The future’s bright, the future’s green
If anything underpinned the last decade – the noughties, as people insist on calling it – it was probably the environment. It was about 2004/5 when the construction trade press suddenly started reporting on eco-friendly construction. And I’m not exaggerating when I said it was sudden. I can’t remember the exact date now, but at the time, I could put my finger on the month that people started promoting it.
There must have been some financial incentive for those few companies to want to promote their ‘green’ credentials so heavily. In fact, being ‘green’ was very quickly followed by ‘greenwash’ – the practice by some companies to be economical with the truth when it comes to their environmental claims.
It says something about a new way of thinking when it comes with its own lexicon – we can happily sit around chatting about carbon footprints, energy efficiency, Kyoto protocol, hybrid engines, and know instantly what each other is saying. More than that, if we see someone leaving the tap running while they brush their teeth, or (heaven forbid) put a half-load of washing on a 90ºC cycle, then we have the same disgust for them as if they were driving drunkenly down the street without a seatbelt on.
There has certainly been a culture-shift in the way we view energy, efficiency, and the environment. Even if we are part of the 50% of the population who stick our heads in the sand when it comes to climate change, there is no escaping the business benefits of being green; whether it be through direct savings made by efficiencies, or the strength it adds to the brand.
If we played at being eco-friendly in the noughties, we must fight with gusto in the teens. Of course, by working with aluminium, you will be heading in the right direction. Not only can aluminium be proven to be sustainable, it also impacts relatively lightly on the environment, when you take into account the way that it is mined, smelted (a high use of hydropower), recycled, and used. Add to this that CAB works on your behalf to promote this to specifiers, and that alumimium products are highly desirable, then aluminium in construction has a bright decade ahead of it.
On behalf of the publishers of Aluminium in Architecture I wish you a very happy Christmas and prosperous New Year.
Nathan Bushell
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Chief Executive’s Comments – December 2009 I heard an accountant on Radio 4 recently proclaim that the recession was now over and things would continue to get worse. Hardly positive stuff, although technically it is backed by statistics. The Construction Products Association state that construction output is estimated to have fallen in the final quarter by 1.1% compared with a fall of 0.8% in the previous quarter. Keeping pace with Standards & Regulations Today, the task of keeping up to date with current and future national, European, and international standards, directives and regulations, as well as accreditation schemes for both products and systems, is the most challenging it has ever been, and there is no sign that things will get easier, in fact it will only get more challenging.
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Top marks for facade
Multi-coloured Aluglaze panels from Panel Systems helped to create a striking futuristic facade for the new Durham Johnston Comprehensive School in Durham.
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New heights for Technal
A glazing system from architectural aluminium specialist, Technal, was chosen for Hafod Eryri – the acclaimed new visitor’s centre on the summit of Snowdon, and the highest building in Wales and England.
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Replaced rooflight
A replacement sloping roof light on the two-storey Glashaus office building in Cobham, Surrey, has been designed, manufactured and installed by Structura UK in a 12-week contract worth £190,000.
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Feeling run down
Charter has been chosen to install built-in security shutters to 40 new medical centres across the UK.
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Specialist treatment for hospital
Curtain walling, windows and doors from architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer are to feature on the £170 million PPP ‘waveform’ extension to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
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Health help
Curtain walling and windows from architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer are being installed as part of the biggest single investment in North Staffordshire healthcare in the 60 years of the NHS.
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A room with a view
A Beaufort folding/sliding door, fabricated and fitted by KAT UK, is providing the purr-fect view onto poolside patio at a luxury home in Essex.
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Clean bill of health
Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems has been used on Phoenix Place, located in Basildon, Essex.
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Kawneer steps up to the crease
Inclined curtain walling from architectural aluminium systems supplier Kawneer will feature on a unique collaboration between Leeds Metropolitan University and the setting of some of the greatest moments in First Class and Test Match cricket.
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All the best-dressed car parks
Large, multi-storey concrete car parks can easily be changed using lightweight materials such as sheet stainless steel and aluminium extrusions.
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Solaglas key project wins
Key wins for Solaglas Contracting in September include:
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Bi-fold launch in Ireland
KAT launched its aluminium Series 9000 Beaufort bi-folding door at the RDS Dublin exhibition, and announced that it is Beaufort’s preferred supplier to the Irish market.
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Maintaining industrial doors
Regular servicing of industrial doors and shutters is vital for maintaining standards of safety and reliability - it should not be sacrificed to save costs during the economic turndown.
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Going French wins business
Aluminium bi-folding doors are in high demand, fuelled by a ‘don’t move improve’ mentality among homeowners, claims London based trade fabricator Everglade Windows.
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Portal frame system opens new markets
Europa has developed an aluminium portal frame that enables the fitting of wide span bi-folding doors into a conservatory. The system can take the full weight of a conservatory roof, thus eliminating theneed for bulky steel structures and keeping sightlines consistent.
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KAT’s got the cream
KAT UK’s aluminium division is to start manufacturing Beaufort’s new Advanced Plus Door Suite featuring folding/sliding, residential and tilt and slide options, all tested to meet latest standards for weather, security and general performance.
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New opening
New from Schüco is the ADS 50.NI pivot door and framing system, which has been designed as a cost-effective, non-thermally insulated solution for schools, hospitals, offices, retail premises and other commercial buildings.
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