Council forAluminium in Building
FEBRUARY 2017 VIEW ONLINE
Monthly Email News for the Architectural Aluminium Industry
CAB Diary 2017

cabOur next event is:

CAB Regional Members’ meeting

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
Thursday 16 March 2017

For further details contact Justin Ratcliffe, Chief Executive or Julie Harley, Office Manager at the CAB office on
01453 828851

Sapa
Products

cabEXLABESA has launched the Xlafold bifolding door.
Read More

cabCOMAR ARCHITECTURAL ALUMINIUM SYSTEMS has launched the Comar 10 window range.
Read More

Projects

By the end of the year Cardiff-based fabricator DUDLEY’S ALUMINIUM will have installed the majority of the aluminium façade, glazing and entrance doors at the new BBC Cymru Wales Headquarters.
Read More

cabWhat is said to be the largest single office development in the Channel Islands uses multiple aluminium glazing systems from
REYNAERS.
Read More

Curtain Walling

cabArchitectural aluminium systems from TECHNAL have been installed at Nine Bond Court in Leeds.
Read More

Curtain walling,
window and door fabricator and installer GLASSOLUTIONS has completed an extensive project for Kier Construction as part of the latest transformational development on east London’s Greenwich Peninsula.
Read More

Exhibitions

QUALICOAT UK & IRELAND is to exhibit at this years 'Surface World Live' at the NEC on March 22nd and 23rd.
Read More

The Glass and Glazing Federation is supporting Materials 2017, a new conference and exhibition focused entirely on material solutions for architecture, construction, and design.
Read More

cabOrgadata creator of the LogiKal aluminium processing software, was at BAU along with the team from BUSINESS MICROS ALUMINIUM.
Read More

Brochures/Videos

cabHardware supplier CARL F GROUPCO is featuring over 7,000 product lines in its new 248 page catalogue, said to be its biggest to date.
Read More

FIT Show

Nearly 90% of the floor space for the FIT Show 20127 is already booked up more than three months before it opens in at its new NEC venue in May.
Read More

BOHLE will highlight its architectural glazing systems including balustrading, glass partitioning and internal doors, at this year’s FIT Show, 23 -25 May Stand L25.
Read More

People

Charly Venn has joined the award-winning marketing team at MILA to head up its digital activity.
Read More

YALE DOOR AND WINDOW SOLUTIONS has welcomed Brett Evans as its new Technical Director for Door Hardware.
Read More

Sapa
Windows

More than 65 REAL ALUMINIUM installation firms say their aluminium sales increased by an average of 281% after switching to Customade’s REAL Aluminium range.
Read More

cabALUPROF has announced that windows and doors made with its MB-104 system can be specified as the system has gained the Passive House Institute Darmstadt certification.
Read More

ALUFOLDDIRECT has launched the Aluminium Glazing Design Centre as part of its new factory premises based in Blackburn.
Read More

Macclesfield based fabricator KAT has placed an order for an Emmegi Quadra sawing and machine centres.
Read More

Hardware

COTSWOLD ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS saw its export sales continue to increase during 2016.
Read More

VBH has added a new range of stainless steel door hardware to its greenteQ range, branded ‘Coastline’.
Read More

MILA has made it easier for customers to choose the right product for any application with a new set of design icons to show what is included in every guarantee.
Read More

Yale has launched the Conexis L1 smart door lock.
Read More

BRISANT SECURE has moved to a new building with over 12 times more warehouse space than its old premises.
Read More

Organisations

cabAluminium systems company ALUK (GB) LIMITED has joined Qualicoat UK & Ireland.
Read More

The Glass and Glazing Federation officially welcomed its new President, Alan Burgess, in front of more than 80 invited guests at the President’s Reception at The Building Centre, London, this week.
Read More

Doors

THE TROJAN GROUP has extended its heavy-duty Athena Door Hinge range to include a version suitable for composite doors.
Read More

Contracts

Aluminium manufacturing and installation company AB GLASS has been awarded a contract in excess of £500,000 by Kier Group.
Read More

Technology bears fruit, mostly

Justin RatcliffeJustin Furness – CAB Technical Director

Much has already been written about the rise in high-rise, by which I mean our apparently insatiable desire not only for more towers but for taller towers as well. But the numbers never cease to amaze me. In 2000, there were 215 office towers worldwide above 200 m high, but only three residential towers were as high.

Sapa Dualframe advert

Today, just 17 years later, there are 255 residential towers above that height across our planet with, according to a recent article in the Guardian Weekend magazine, a further 184 under construction. The article goes on: “The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, due to be completed in 2020, will be the first to break 1,000 m. Its highest apartments will be on the 156th floor”. Let’s hope the lifts are reliable, as that is one walk you don’t want to take with your weekly shop.

Senior Aluminium Systems

Having said that, it is advances in lift technology that go some way to explaining the trend for taller towers, as they help to make high-rise living and working practicable. By using high strength to weight ratio carbon fibre ropes in place of steel ropes, lift shafts of several hundred meters are now possible. Read More

alpro

I hope you enjoy this month's issue.

twitterTony Higgin
Publisher

Please send all editorial to news@aluminiuminarchitecture.co.uk

Last call for the CAB Aluminium Pavilion – FIT Show 2017

Justin Ratcliffe, (CAB Chief Executive)Justin

With a matter of weeks until FIT Show 2017, there is limited space left on the CAB Aluminium Pavilion in Hall 8 of the Show which takes place 23-25 May at the NEC Birmingham. The well attended Exhibitor Day on 16 February highlighted just how seriously the industry the whole industry, including CAB, is taking the enlarged event which has the strap line ‘Think Big’. CAB for its part will have a total area over 300m2.. Read more

This Month's News

Martoccia returns with plan for new ali window system

Joe Martoccia has stepped back into the industry spotlight, heading the acquisition of a UK-based aluminium extruder, and today he told Aluminium in Architecture of an eventual plan to create a new aluminium window and door system.

read the rest here...

alpro

Phil Pluck is new GGF Chief

The Glass and Glazing Federation has announced the appointment of Phil Pluck as its new Chief Executive.

read the rest here...

adams

Business rate rise feared
– survey

Business Rate Revaluation in England and Wales as well as wage inflation and the effect of weak Sterling on raw materials prices are highlighted as the main concerns in the latest State of the Trade Survey by the British Woodworking Federation.

read the rest here...

euroseal

Strong start for house building …and more to come

Housebuilders have signalled a bullish start to the year with January’s contract values almost doubled year on year, with much of the growth coming from the private sector, according to the latest figures from industry analysts Barbour ABI.

read the rest here...

extrudaseal

White Paper sets out to ‘fix the broken housing market’

The government has introduced its plans to ‘fix the broken housing market’ and build more homes across England.

read the rest here...

Industry value down 2%
in ‘challenging landscape’
– Plimsoll

The UK’s top window and door companies have decreased in value by 2% in the last 12 months, 379 out of 1308 have lost a third of their value in that time and 229 – over a sixth of the total – are said to be in financial difficulties, according to the latest Plimsoll Report.

read the rest here...

Missed the Last Issue? Click Here

To Subscribe Click Here


About Aluminium in Architecture
The readership of Aluminium in Architecture is a mixture of architects
and specifiers, together with the CAB membership and wider aluminium
fenestration market. If any part of your business involves aluminium
windows, doors, conservatories or shopfronts, or the hardware and
machinery which complete the package, then you will benefit from
reading Aluminium in Architecture every month. Aluminium in
Architecture covers all aluminium products used in building construction,
including cladding, roofing, structure etc.

The CAB Editorial Board comprises Justin Ratcliffe and Adrian Toon.
Editorial covers the whole aluminium market, but editorial from CAB
members is identified with a small CAB logo.

Should you wish to advertise on Aluminium in Architecture
please contact tony@e2bmedia.co.uk
or telephone 01923 461527, mobile 07977-981753.
E2b Media Ltd, 47 Bucknalls Lane, Watford WD25 9NE

To unsubscribe from This E-zine click here

www.aluminiuminarchitecture.co.uk

Council for Aluminium in Building
The Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB) was formed in 1994 by the
bringing together of three existing trade associations, the Architectural
Aluminium Association, the Patent Glazing Contractors Association and
the Aluminium Window Association, all of whom had been established for
well over 25 years. Our mission is to support the interests of the
architectural aluminium industry by encouraging the increasing use of
aluminium products in architecture and the construction industry as a
whole, to encourage quality and best practice, to set new technical
standards and protect members' business and contractual interest. In
addition we are driving forward the development of a national training
structure for the sector and have received major grants from the DTI to
assist in this activity.
More details can be found here
.

RATECARD AND EDITORIAL

View the Ratecard: Click here
Editorial should be sent to: news@aluminiuminarchitecture.co.uk