Listers’ customers gained an insight into regulatory change, product innovation and market forecasts, at the fabricator’s latest customer partnership day.

The event, held at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium opened with a Q&A panel on the impacts of Part F and Part L, with Paul Kennington, Veka Technical Director and chair of the GGF Systems Group, Certass chair Jon Vanstone and Listers MD Roy Frost.

Part F proved a thorny issue with visitors questioning the logic of the legislation but also the practicalities of enforcement.

Jon Vanstone summed up the issue: “You’ve got different drivers at play that don’t really match. At the same time the consumer still doesn’t understand the benefits and that makes pitching trickle vents to the end-user far more difficult.

“The fact, however, remains, that poor ventilation has a massive toll on public health and the NHS, with billions spent on chronic health conditions, so things have to change. 

Paul Kennington, argued that, like it or not, ventilation was fundamental to the creation and maintenance of healthy living spaces. Instead, he suggested that legislation created an opportunity to upsell the benefits to the end user.

Roy Frost argued that the industry needed to be better at engaging with government, and encouraged installers to participate in the consultation process. He also called for greater collaboration between representative bodies.

“We need to speak with one voice”, he said, “We’ve got trickle vent manufacturers, sealed unit manufacturers, glass companies, systems companies – people who are individually keen to sell more of their individual products, and who are pushing their individual agendas.

“In my opinion that needs to change and I’m up for the challenge: I’d like to see individual businesses and organisations within our industry come together and approach things more collaboratively, speak with a single voice and to get our message across to Government,”

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