WER scheme to be extended

The BFRC scheme for rating energy efficient windows will be extended from September 1 2009 to include window installers and retailers.

This extension will be called the Authorised Retailer Scheme and will allow window installers and smaller fabrication companies to participate and benefit from the selling and marketing of BFRC energy efficient windows under their own labels.

Extension of the BFRC scheme in this way will allow new Authorised Retailers (ARs) to display a BFRC label in their company name and to demonstrate compliance with Part L of the Building Regulations. This is achieved by registering the BFRC rated product using the FENSA registration scheme.

“The extension of the existing BFRC Window Energy Ratings Scheme is aimed at controlling the expansion of the marketplace predicted from the revised Building Regulations that will come into force in 2010,” said BFRC CEO Graham Hinett. “It also satisfies the latent demand from installers and smaller fabricators and is a logical development to provide a controlled and credible method for the window industry to supply homeowners with more and more BFRC energy rated products.”

There will be a number of benefits for installers from signing up to the Authorised Retailer Scheme in addition to holding a BFRC label and being able to more effectively market energy rated products. These include: a listing on the BFRC website, access to the BFRC Marketing Tool Kit, FENSA registration using Window Energy Rating’s, an AR’s customers will receive a BFRC Energy Rated Window Label and an AR will be able to source Insulating Glass Unit’s (IGU) independently.

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Caption: Giles Wilson, director of technical affairs, GGF.