This Week's News

Excellence to the fore at G 14 Awards

Twelve worthy winners stood on stage at the G14 Awards Presentation & Gala Dinner in November, in addition to this year’s recipient of the Derek Bonnard Award for Excellence. While the event is all about innovation, development and commitment within glass and glazing industry, it is not all serious – it was hosted by the entertaining Kevin Bridges who brought his unique humour to the proceedings.

Tony Higgin, organiser of the G-Awards, spoke about this year’s winners calling them all “outstanding”. He continued: “After eleven years, the G-Awards are still going strong thanks to the continuously excellent standard of entries we receive. Each year I wonder how we can beat the previous one, but it happens every time. All our finalists should be extremely proud, and our winners represent everything to which we all aspire in terms of commitment, dedication and passion. This is what makes our industry great.”

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Emplas claims double win at G14

Emplas has been awarded the top Customer Care Initiative Award in front of an industry-wide audience at this years’ G14 Awards for its innovative Customer Information Manual.

The unique 530-page resource, brings everything from product technical details to order forms instantly to the finger-tips of its customers and was launched following an 11-month development project.

This involved Emplas’ customers from its very inception, including working and focus groups – something noted by the judges in this years’ award ceremony.


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ERA Announced As Component Supplier Of The Year

ERA, has been announced as the Component Supplier of the Year at the prestigious G14 Awards held in London on Friday 21 November.

In achieving this coveted Award, ERA was able to demonstrate excellence across a number of disciplines from technical, to customer service, to product innovation and delivery. Despite having over 175 years of history in the hardware industry, ERA is firmly planted in the future with a strategy centred around delivering cutting-edge hardware innovation that enables its customers to present a unique and compelling door and window proposition to the homeowner.

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All Smiles As Quickslide Take Home The Gold At G14 Awards

Quickslide had reason to celebrate at this year’s G14 Awards after being presented with the Training & Development Initiative of the Year trophy.

The G-Awards judges decided that Quickslide’s submission, one that was personally signed by every member of the workforce because every one of them played their part in the review and in the continuing success it has brought the Yorkshire-based fabricator, was a worthy winner.

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Ultraframe achieves G14 New Product of the Year

LivinROOF, the solid replacement roof system from Ultraframe has seen record adoption rates by its network partners and to end the year on a high – LivinROOF has secured the top industry award for product innovation – The G14 New Product of the Year.

Ultraframe was able to demonstrate through its submission the commercial strength of LivinROOF.  Not only does it give Ultraframe network partners the ultimate solution to exploit the lucrative and growing roof replacement market it also gives the homeowner complete design flexibility in achieving, a unique contemporary space by incorporating glazed sections into the vaulted roof space at no extra cost – a feature that is proving incredibly popular amongst design conscious clients.

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New BF Data Sheet means Thermobar can be substituted into any WER

Thermobar Warm Edge Spacer, manufactured by Thermoseal Group, is officially at the top of the list of the most thermally efficient spacer systems as per figures published on the new Bundesverband Flachglas (BF) Data Sheet – 0.14W/mK.

This value and the calculated Psi Values detailed in this latest data sheet means that according to the 2-box model, you can substitute Thermobar Warm Edge Spacer into any current Window Energy Rating (WER) Simulation… Including all rigid tubes and foam spacer systems.

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Senior Architectural Systems appoints new MD

Fenestration systems designer and manufacturer Senior Architectural Systems has appointed Mark Wadsworth as its new managing director.

Mark replaces former managing director Lennart Jonsson who founded the company in 1991, as he takes up his new role as chairman of the board for Senior Architectural Systems.
After joining the company in 1993 as a one-year placement student, Mark climbed through the ranks to become operations director in 2007.


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Commercial property set to drive 7.3% increase for construction starts in 2015

Figures released last week by construction analysts Glenigan forecast a 7.3% increase in project starts for 2015, driven by a flourishing commercial sector. 

The Construction Prospects for 2015 report, prepared by Glenigan’s economics team, suggests rising private sector investment and improved consumer confidence will underpin further growth in both detailed planning approvals and project starts next year.

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Small sites exemption will help build more homes

An exemption for small sites from the off-site elements of the zero carbon standard will allow more new homes to be built by small local builders and help create diversity and choice in the housing market, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) in response to the Government’s consultation on the small sites exemption.

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Turning ‘Do-It-Yourself’ into ‘Devalue-It-Yourself’

Dodgy DIY by British homeowners may be devaluing the sale price of the average UK home: a staggering 91% of British adults would reduce their offer on homes with signs of poorly-done DIY by some amount, and over half (54%) would be less likely to  put an offer in at all.

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