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Procurement for Housing (PfH) is searching for SME glazing contractors to deliver responsive repairs and voids works to social landlords such as fixing windows and doors, replacing single and double glazing, wired glass, impact resistant (Part K) glazing, and curtain walling in communal blocks. Glazing contractors are needed for an initial term of five years and will deliver the work...
Modular construction could provide up to a quarter of all new homes, according to a new policy paper. The report, ‘Build Homes, Build Jobs, Build Innovation’, proposes a fast-track investment to construct 75,000 modular homes off-site a year by 2030. The paper is co-authored by Mark Farmer, who was appointed government champion of modern methods of construction last year. “Modular manufacturing is...
An of experts will be trained up to deliver the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme to make 600,000 households in England energy efficient for the winter. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) has launched a £6.9 million grant – the Green Homes Grant Skills Competition – for training organisations to help get tradespeople equipped and trained to...
A West Midlands company director has appealed for small businesses across the country to join forces to offer young unemployed people a foot on the career ladder through the government’s new £2 billion Kickstart jobs scheme. Kickstart aims to create hundreds of thousands of fully subsidised jobs for young people across the country, and local businesses of all sizes are...
Housing construction sites were operating at 80% in terms of productivity in August, according to the new Private Housebuilding report, published by AMA Research. At the start of 2020, it looked as if it was going to be another year of growth for the private housing sector, the market analyst said. Mortgage fixed-interest rates in Q1 were at their lowest...
Following calls from architectural experts to save on carbon emissions by upgrading older buildings instead of knocking them down, building designers and specifiers should consider retrofitting solutions to improve overall sustainability, Rehau is urging. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) estimates that a sizeable proportion of a building’s lifecycle carbon is emitted during construction: 35% and 51% for office...
Birmingham-based Shelforce has been making sure its disabled employees have been protected as they return to work following the Covid-19 lockdown. Seventy-five percent of Shelforce’s workforce are disabled, and the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly hard on those who rely on their daily work at its factory in Erdington. But the company is tackling the challenge head-on to ensure its...
Victorian Sliders has celebrated 15 years in business. In September 2005, Scot Starkey founded what today is claimed to be Europe’s biggest sash window manufacturer, with its EcoSlide sash window sold to more than 3,000 installers nationwide. “I’m very proud of everything we’ve managed to achieve over the last 15 years,” Scot said. “The secret to our success has been...
TuffX has added four vehicle upgrades to its fleet ready to offer customers its ‘best-ever service’ with increased delivery capacity and flexibility. The new vehicles include a sprinter van, a 7.5-tonne truck, a 10-tonne truck, and a 13-tonne truck, a range of sizes that complement the existing fleet and ensures TuffX can continue to deliver products economically on a large...
Caribbean Blinds has won the Best Garden Buy award for its Outdoor Living Pod in the Real Homes Awards 2020. The Real Homes judging panel deemed the unique Outdoor Living Pod to display some of the highest ratings across multiple areas including durability, aesthetic appeal and value for money. Consumers were then responsible for choosing their favourites within each category....
Glazerite UK Group has joined Certass Trade Association (TA). The fabricator signed up for Supply Chain membership to take advantage of the information and advice that is being shared with manufacturers and component suppliers by chair Jon Vanstone and the Certass TA team. Jeff Dunn, group sales and marketing director at Glazerite, said: “We’ve already had good value from our...
ODL Europe will be exhibiting at the FIT Show 2021, held on May 25-27, 2021, at the NEC Birmingham. Nathan Barr, managing director of ODL Europe, said: “The strapline for the show is ‘Get ready to reconnect with the industry’, and that’s exactly what it feels like after the unprecedented events of 2020. “We think it’s essential to show our...
Biesse Group has won a ‘Best Managed Companies’ award for the third consecutive year. This Deloitte initiative to support and reward Italian companies that are excellent in terms of organisational capacity, strategy, and performance is in its third year. Deloitte rated the companies based on six pillars: strategy, skills and innovation; corporate social responsibility; corporate commitment and culture; governance and...
AluFoldDirect has now returned to two-week lead times, with Everything Aluminium delivered direct to site. Managing director Russell Yates said: “Since joining AluFoldDirect after lockdown and talking with customers, it’s clear that fast lead times on aluminium windows and doors are still one of the biggest benefits to them. “Fast delivery, direct to site, makes it easier for them to...
ERA has launched ERA Protect, a wireless smart security system that is the first of its kind to attain the prestigious BSI IoT Kitemark. BSI developed the IoT (internet of things) Kitemark in response to the rapid growth of internet connected products, and is designed to help customers identify IoT devices they can trust to be safe, secure and functional....
Rehau has been developing sustainable approaches across the entire value chain and putting them into practice for several years, and these efforts have now been recognised as the company is included in the ‘50 Sustainability and Climate Leaders’ initiative. The aim of the 50 Sustainability and Climate Leaders campaign is to draw attention to the fact that the earth’s natural resources are...
Victorian Sliders has invested over £half-a-million in expanding its delivery fleet. The firm has acquired 12 new Mercedes Sprinter vans and two 38-tonne Mercedes lorries to transport its ECOSlide windows from its Ammanford HQ to depots all around the UK. Group managing director Andy Jones said: “Constant investment is how Victorian Sliders has grown to become one of the biggest...
Quickslide has improved the dispatch centre at its production facility. Over the past 18 months, Quickslide committed to fulfilling its £2 million programme of growth, with the most recent phase being work on the new dispatch centre, which was completed in July by Cleckheaton Construction. The improved dispatch centre has been designed so that Quickslide has one dedicated facility that...
Wirral-based architectural glazing company RED Systems has formed strategic alliance with Leeds-based off-site company Sigmat. The firm, which specialises in the design and manufacture of aluminium glazing products, will be working alongside Sigmat on the launch of the firm’s new luxury housing division. The partnership has been formed on the back of the firm’s combined success in the residential sector....
After a difficult start to 2020, the financial implications of the coronavirus for the fenestration sector are only just starting to show, according to Insight Data. Managing directors are concerned that the entire supply chain may only be seeing the tip of a very large iceberg in terms of financial instability after Insight Data recently analysed the financial data of...