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The number of international students enrolled in the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers’ (GAI) Diploma programme has surpassed those in the UK for the first time in its history. Almost 60% of students enrolled in last year’s diploma programme were located outside the UK. Fifty-four students passed the stage three exam to become GAI Diploma holders (DipGAI), of which 28 were...
Building Our Skills is ‘overwhelmed’ with the response shown to the latest Inspiring the Future campaign. “When we launched the campaign, we wanted to create more awareness to others working in fenestration and recruit their support by joining in to attract new and young people to our industry,” organisation head Stephanie Tague said. “I never expected we would gain such...
The value of underlying construction work (under £100 million in value) starting on-site during the three months to April 2021 was 30% higher than a year ago and 18% higher than the preceding three months on a seasonally adjusted basis. Residential starts experienced the greatest growth of 35% against the previous year as well as 14% growth compared to the...
Freefoam Building Products has launched new video to showcase Pilkington Plastics. Based in Horsham, West Sussex, Pilkington Plastics specialises in the supply and fitting of fascia, soffit, cladding, windows and doors. Installation is a busy and growing part of the business and the new video features a recent project on a large four-bedroom home with Black Ash fascia and Black...
Yale is sponsoring the Glass Times Race Day on July 1, 2021. Taking place at Haydock Park, the Glass Times Race Day has always been one of the most popular events in the social calendar, and after a year of cancellations it looks set to be the first big event for the door and window industry following the lifting of...
Dekko Windows has maintained a four-week lead time on its Residence Collection range, despite the ongoing challenges facing the window industry supply chain. According to sales director Kurt Greatrex, a combination of investment in key areas, strong partnerships with key suppliers and general hard graft has enabled Dekko to keep lead times to a minimum. “It’s a very interesting time...
Combilift has committed to a new three-year sponsorship deal with the Monaghan Ladies Gaelic football team as well as sponsoring the Monaghan senior club championship. The Combilift logo will now be prominent on both home and away jerseys, as well as all items of the team’s training gear. Combilift will support the Monaghan LGFA (Ladies Gaelic Football Association) teams both...
An 84% increase in the number of working at height breaches on construction sites during the first quarter of 2021 has been reported by the Building Safety Group (BSG). The latest figures were obtained following 4,300 independent site inspections that took place between January 1 and March 31 this year. Working at height remains the biggest danger for construction workers,...
A 2021 Construction Census has been released by the organisers of The Glazing Summit to provide analysis and to gauge how the industry is shaping up for the remaining year. The census is designed to reveal how businesses have fared over the past year, and a report will be produced to examine what the main issues are facing the industry....
Haffner Murat Ltd has commissioned a further expansion at its Staffordshire headquarters: a new 1,990m2 extension that will house a new showroom. Dave Thomas, managing director of Haffner Murat, said: “The new purpose-built showroom will offer an ideal platform to present a large range of our high-quality machines to potential customers. Fabricators visiting our headquarters already benefit from our state-of-the-art...
Classroom training has resumed at Door and Hardware Federation (DHF). The Tamworth-based trade association has, since the onset of the Covid pandemic, been providing a mix of online training and examinations via its distance learning programme (DLP), with delegates able to meet their training obligations, albeit from the safety of their own locations. Learners can once again return to DHF’s...
Building Our Skills – Making Fenestration A Career of Choice (BOS) has embarked on a recruitment drive with a difference: ‘highlighting the need for the industry to come together and eliminate its ever-growing skills gap’. Continuing to build on its key objective – to heighten awareness of the fenestration industry to new and young people – the organisation is encouraging...
Construction activity continued throughout the first quarter of 2021, and double-digit growth is forecast this year, according to the Construction Product Association’s latest Spring Forecast. With the whole supply chain (architects, consultants, contractors, SMEs, manufacturers and merchants) permitted to operate during the winter lockdown restrictions, activity was not hit as hard compared to the initial lockdown in the first half...
The students of Longroyde Primary School in West Yorkshire have been busy creating and cultivating green spaces as part of their Easter Garden Project, thanks to a £500 donation from Morley Glass and Glazing’s GreenVision Fund. Children planned the garden and spent weeks digging out weeds, filling beds with compost, and planting seeds. They have also thought of the other...
Bohle has said that its supply chain remains uninterrupted despite wider shortages of components and building materials. The glass hardware and consumables specialist said that extensive planning pre-Brexit had allowed it to strengthen its supply network, increasing stock-holding and reducing lead times across its offer on a wide range of products. This meant that its stockholding at the company’s UK...
Veka Compounds, the polymer division of Veka Recycling, is supporting the forthcoming PVC 2021 event as part of what the firm’s managing director Simon Scholes calls “positive engagement” in the rigid plastics industry. The event will be taking place in a virtual format, on May 10-12, 2021. Featuring more than 50 speakers covering all aspects of the PVC sector, Veka Compounds...
Public awareness of the critical impact windows recycling has on the UK’s sustainability agenda needs to increase, according to Rehau. As such, the business has invested £10 million into a recycling facility located in the north of England, and unveiled ambitious targets to support this broader vision. Millions of windows are replaced in the UK each year on average as...
Saint-Gobain Glass has commenced a £30m investment in its glass manufacturing factory in Eggborough, East Yorkshire. The company is carrying out a major construction programme to completely re-build and install a new float glass furnace, as well as upgrade other areas of the factory, which will secure the long-term supply of consistently high-quality, high-performance glass in the UK. The project...
Mackenzie Glass has highlighted severe and immediate disruption to the global supply of laminates which it warns will lead to shortages this summer. The glass merchanting business said that major disruption to the supply of PVB laminates in the US had created a global shortfall, which was now manifesting itself in lower availability of security and acoustic glass. Compounded by...
Cornwall Glass has said it expects to be able to guarantee IGU supply to its established customer base in the face of global shortages in the supply of laminates. With two of the UK’s three float glass manufactures already limiting supply of laminated products, Mark Norcliffe, joint managing director of Cornwall Glass Manufacturing, said that the IGU sector faced a...