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| CAB Diary 2015 |
 Full details of all CAB's 2015 events can be found here
Our next meetings are:
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- CAB Pre and Post Contract Awareness Seminars, Birmingham, 10 June 2015
- CAB Marketing mini-Conference, Birmingham 11 June 2015
For further details contact Justin Ratcliffe, Chief Executive or Julie Harley, Office Manager at the CAB office on 01453 828851
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| Projects |
METAL TECHNOLOGY curtain walling, door and window systems have been installed on the Polwarth Terrace development of high value homes in Edinburgh’ built for Wemyss Properties.
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The team at Hardware manufacturer COTSWOLD ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS have worked with prominent systems companies and fabricators to bring to market a new dedicated solution for POV (parallel opening vents) on PVCu windows - the ‘Sinidex’ parallel stay.
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A sixties-built London high rise has had a major fire safety upgrade with the help of steel and aluminium glazing company WRIGHTSTYLE.
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An exclusive partnership has been agreed between two leading manufacturers of sealing solutions to supply a new product to the UK window and door industry.
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COMAR ARCHITECTURAL ALUMINIUM SYSTEMS has incorporated technology from its Comar 9P.i frame system to create Comar 5P.i and is now launching the 5P.i Advanced Casement and Tilt/Turn window system.
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Architectural aluminium systems by KAWNEER have created what is believed to be Wales’s first twin-skin façade to give a ‘corporate feel’ to the new postgraduate centre of Cardiff Business School at the city’s University.
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Soccer veterans Jimmy Greenhoff and Terry Conroy helped LISTER TRADE FRAMES to launch its new Designer Range niche brand aimed at architects and new build.
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| Hardware |
Hardware specialist VBH now stocks Glazpart’s Packers for Professionals (P4P) range of plastic accessories for the glazing industry.
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| Internet / I.T. |
The design, sales and pricing software modules for installers developed by WINDOWLINK – Focus and Vector can now be specified with a digital signature facility.
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Italian hardware company AGB has launched a new website dedicated to Imago Lift & Slide Doors.
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Condensation on windows and skylights is explained on a new dedicated webpage ‘Understanding Indoor Condensation in the Home’ created by the American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA).
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Two members of the PURPLEX MARKETING digital team, Jennifer Hearn and Edward Billett, have completed the Google Adwords programme and exams, strengthening the teams existing Google Partner status.
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| Exhibitions |
The Eco Technology Show is returning for 2015 at the American express Stadium, Brighton, on June 11 and 12, with exhibitors, panels and discussions as well as a newly introduced Innovation Zone.
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| Events |
The Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) enjoyed a record attendance for a specialist group meeting when the Joint Conservatory Association and Window and Door Group attracted 58 delegates at Solihull, West Midlands.
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| People |
Carl F Groupco has announced that Cheryl Varley, a fenestration industry sales specialist with over twenty years industry experience, is Regional Sales Manager, NE England.
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BUSINESS MICROS ALUMINIUM has added a third member to its customer support team providing telephone and online support to users of its LogiKal software system.
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Fabrication machine supplier Emmegi (UK) has appointed Craig Smith as Spare Parts Advisor based at its Coventry headquarters.
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PVC-u and aluminium fabricator ASTRASEAL has promoted long-standing employee Colin Stanley to operations director as part of its plans to grow the trade sector of the business.
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TrustMark, the Government endorsed quality scheme, is looking for a new director from the glazing industry to help the newly relaunched consumer body to take ‘the next big step’ in its plans.
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| Windows |
Specification, performance, and price are some of the most common criteria for aluminium fabricators when they are buying new machinery, but size is not very often on the list of requirements.
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Bifold door fabricator TWR Bifolds has seen sales of its aluminium products grow 20% over the past twelve months, with coloured products largely contributing to this growth.
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A range of products from SENIOR ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS and installed by CS Aluminium Windows Ltd has helped to give a ‘Very Good’ BREEAM Rating to a purpose built Primary Care Resource Centre in Buckley, north-east Wales.
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| Curtain Walling |
JACK ALUMINIUM’s curtain walling and PAS 24 thermal TD68 Jack Door, are best known for their exterior applications but the slim line frame and easy assembly, ‘clip in plate and ladder’ system has brought them inside for refurbishment at former BBC broadcasting offices.
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| Doors |
White and grey is the most popular dual-colour for aluminium, a recent poll from bi-fold door specialist TWR BIFOLDS has revealed.
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| Brochures & Video |
Titon is offering expert advice to its customers on the recently published Approved Document Q, which sees security of dwellings incorporated into the Building Regulations for the first time.
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Yale Door and Window Solutions has launched AutoSecure, an innovative new multipoint lock designed to help protect properties and keep residents safe and secure.
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BARRIER COMPONENTS has launched its new brochure showcasing its range of glass fitting options for Commercial and Residential installations offering solutions for both internal and external specification.
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| Awards/Standards |
The Pegasus Academy in Surrey, featuring a series of architectural aluminium glazing systems from TECHNAL, has won another award for architecture and design.
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The Building Research Establishment (BRE)has announced that, following the success of the 2015 BREEAM Awards, next year’s event will be on Tuesday, March 8 at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square.
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Business Micros has just been announced as one of the main sponsors for this year’s G-15 Awards, which take place at the London Hilton Park Lane on 27 November.
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Burntwood School, a renewal project by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris incorporating ALUK systems has received the 2015 RIBA London Award for architecture excellence.
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Fit for the future
 Justin Furness – CAB Technical Director
The aluminium in building industry assembled at Loughborough on 14 May 2015 for the sector’s technical event of the year, the Council for Aluminium in Building’s Technical Conference and Exhibition. Over 100 delegates were registered for the programme of 11 highly topical and thought provoking presentations alongside a table-top exhibition of 12 CAB member companies, all under the theme of “Fit for the Future”.
Peter Caplehorn, Policy Director and Deputy Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association provided the keynote address for the morning session with the title: “BIM, Now, Next and New”. Peter started by referring to the construction puzzle: how can everyone involved in a project best work collaboratively? He quickly identified BIM as the industry game changer that is gaining traction in the market now and set to challenge any remnants of the “silo” mentality.
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I hope you enjoy this month's issue'.
 Tony Higgin
Publisher
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Optimism for the Year Ahead despite Cost Inflation
Justin Ratcliffe, (CAB Chief Executive)
The latest CAB State of the Market figures for Q1, 2015 continued to highlight a positive long term outlook for the aluminium in building sector despite industry concern over the availability of skilled workers, with wages and salaries being the key driver of cost inflation. 79% net balance of respondents expected sales volume growth for the year ahead.
The survey which is likely to have built in some reservations about the May 7 General Election represented another strong quarter for the sector with confidence in forward demand which was supported by a strong continuing commitment to capital investment. The latter should not be underestimated in terms of looking to signs of our sector’s long term recovery and stability. In each of the quarters in 2014, there had been a greater commitment (or at least equal) to investment across all the metrics for the 12 months ahead.
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This Month's News
Two more tax-dodging window salesmen sentenced after HMRC taskforce swoop
HM Revenue & Customs has repeated its warning that its criminal investigation taskforce still has the window industry ‘on its radar’ after two more Safestyle salesmen were sentenced by a Crown Court for concealing six-figure earnings from the taxman.
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BFRC offers first-ever licence discounts
BFRC is offering a 15% discount on fabricator System House Simplified Energy Licences (SELs) and authorized installer status for the rest of 2015.
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Javid takes up the cause of late payment to small businesses
The Government’s new Business Secretary Sajid Javid has stepped in to defend small businesses against the ‘outrageous bullying’ of late payment by powerful large companies.
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FENSA launches ‘Pay As You Go’
Small business and sole traders with low volumes of domestic window and door work have been offered a simple and easy route to Building Regulations compliance with the launch of Pay As You Go by FENSA.
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UK economy is in deflation
The UK economy went into negative inflation last month, for the first time in over half a century. The Consumer Price Index fell by 0.1% in the year to April, compared to no change in the year to March.
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Queen’s Speech: Housing targets will falter without apprenticeships
The Government must succeed in its aim to create millions of apprenticeships over the lifetime of this Parliament if it is to solve the housing crisis, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).
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