Technical comment

Making things happen in the UK and Europe

The astronaut James Lovell once said: “There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”

The CAB technical team are people who ‘make things happen’, with support and feedback from a growing membership of companies throughout the aluminium in building supply chain in the UK.

CAB speaks authoritatively on behalf of members on various technical committees and working groups with its influence extending beyond the UK as more and more standards are being decided on a European level. As CAB’s technical consultant, Patrick England, is shortly to take the chairmanship of the FAECF’s Technical Committee (Federation of European Window and Curtain Walling Manufacturers’ Association). CAB’s priority is to lead from the front and ‘contribute for change’.

Patrick said: “Technical support for membership is a two-way dialogue. While both Martin Ford and myself offer support on the standards and advise on all matters relating to the best use of aluminium, we also want to hear of issues that are affecting members businesses. With our sister organisations in other countries across Europe working together under FAECF, we have a real opportunity to influence the outcome of developing standards. However, CAB can only achieve change on the European level if businesses in the UK continue to become involved and this applies to the whole of the sector supply chain.

“A call for membership – yes, join CAB and be one of the businesses in the UK who are involved, well informed and join the team of ‘people who make things happen’.”

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