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Posted On - 16/10/2019
Glass Times editor nathan Bushell responds to news that one of the industry’s favourite employees has moved on to pastures new. Alan Fielder, Edgetech’s sales and marketing director, is leaving the company after 12 years. Here are a few words from him that went out to the industry yesterday. “My time at Edgetech has been an absolute blast, and I...
Posted On - 09/10/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell welcomes the latest winner of the Stirling Prize. A council housing development in Norwich has won the Stirling Prize, beating off stiff competition from prestigious projects including: London Bridge Station, The Macallan Distillery, and Nevill Holt Opera. I think this is strikingly important for the construction industry, primarily because energy efficiency is going to be...
Posted On - 02/10/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell talked to FIT Show event director Nickie West about her decision to stage the exhibition every year instead of every two. The FIT Show’s annual proposition is the best way serve the industry, and not because its owners are greedy. That is the main thrust of an interview event director Nickie West gave me when...
Posted On - 25/09/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell considers how the G Awards really affect our industry. Congratulations to all of the shortlisted companies in this year’s G Awards. With all of the doom and gloom surrounding Brexit, and the impact that it is having on the wider economy and investors’ confidence, it is more important than ever that we don’t lose sight...
Posted On - 18/09/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell reflects on a successful event at Edgbaston last week. The Glazing Summit, which took place at Edgbaston last Thursday, took what succeeded at last year’s event and improved on them. That was the overwhelming response I got from delegates who attended from across the UK, who were interested to learn more about the key topics...
Posted On - 11/09/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell looks at the latest news concerning this week’s Glazing Summit. If you are heading to Edgbaston tomorrow [Thursday September 12, 2019], then you would have probably been keeping a close eye on all of the latest news regarding the day’s offerings. We’ve made sure that as much as possible has made its way into the...
Posted On - 04/09/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell surfs the channels. Marketing strategies in today’s tech savvy world is all about digital and online, right? If you want to get in front of people with money to spend, you have to have your finger on the pulse of Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, and Houzz. Having a website is no longer good enough. At...
Posted On - 28/08/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell reports on the latest news from Vitrum. Vitrum 2019 promises to be a sold-out event, its organisers have announced, with more encouraging numbers than for the previous show. “The numbers are overwhelmingly positive,” Vitrum’s president Dino Zandonella Necca said. “The confirmed space for this edition is 8% higher than in 2017 and there has been...
Posted On - 21/08/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell welcomes the latest news from the Department for Education regarding the new T-Levels. The Department for Education released fresh details yesterday (August 20, 2019) about the new T-Levels that will be launched next September. I’d like to say “better late than never” but to be honest it sticks in the throat a little bit. The...
Posted On - 14/08/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell considers the persistent attraction of glass. Following on from my comment last week, where I flagged up a news story that called for glass skyscrapers to be banned, I think it would be fair this week to highlight an area where glass is demonstrating its strength and flexibility. News that all timber doors tested for...
Posted On - 08/08/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell reflects on a recent story that called for a ban on glass skyscrapers. Should glass skyscrapers be banned? According to Simon Sturgis, chairman of Riba’s sustainability group, and an advisor to the government, whose opinions featured in a recent Guardian story, all-glass skyscrapers should be banned because they are too difficult and expensive to cool....
Posted On - 31/07/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell focuses on the efforts being made to attract and train the talent the glass and glazing industry needs to flourish. “The recruitment and retention of shop floor staff combined with a failure to attract younger workers into the industry, threaten the long-term sustainability of the glass and glazing sector, according to commentators. “The warning was...
Posted On - 24/07/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell responds to news that BA will receive a record-breaking fine for a massive data breach. In the same week that Facebook users were reportedly handing over significant amounts of personal date to an app that aged them, we learned that British Airways will be fined £183.39 following a sizeable breach of the General Data Protection...
Posted On - 17/07/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell considers something old and something new. This morning I was going to write about a tweet I had read earlier in the week about how someone found some Crittall windows by the side of the road, and then decided to take them home. They had been removed from a property (ie, not new), and she...
Posted On - 10/07/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell celebrates interconnectivity. Last week’s Glass Times Race Day was – as usual – a great success. Typically, though, like any event where you put so many people you know (or want to get to know) in a room, you end up kicking yourself the morning after because you missed your chance to say hello. I...
Posted On - 03/07/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell attended Prefix’s showroom opening last week, and discovered some new opportunities. The opening of Prefix’s new showroom in Blackburn last week was something of an eye opener. I know the company quite well, and I’m always impressed with how Chris Cooke and Chris Baron have developed new products and created new markets while keeping a...
Posted On - 26/06/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell congratulates GM Fundraising on the latest cycling challenge, which concluded at the beginning of the week. On Saturday June 22, the GM Fundraising cycling team arrived at Hope House in Oswestry marking the end of From Russia With Hope, the latest GM Fundraising cycling challenge. Ten countries in 12 days, from the Russian border through...
Posted On - 19/06/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell reports on the latest news to emerge from the GM Fundraising cycling team. This morning, the GM Fundraising Facebook page read “Day nine, From Russia With Hope: Hamburg, Germany to Arnhem, Holland. 246 miles and 3,973 feet of climbing. It will be difficult to build up a rhythm today with lots of stop/start urban riding.”...
Posted On - 12/06/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell reports on the latest attempts to rid the construction industry of rogue traders. Today sees the launch of a mandatory licensing scheme that has been designed to combat the image that the construction industry is unprofessional. The new Construction Licensing Task Force has the backing of several professional bodies, including Fensa, Federation of Master Builders...
Posted On - 06/06/2019
Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell responds to a scammer. As the dust settles on what has turned out to be a successful FIT Show 2019, the organisers have an unwelcome battle on their hands: fraudulent attempts to sell visitor data. FIT Show exhibitors have been receiving messages from someone purporting to be an ‘event specialist’ from the FIT Show offering...
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