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    ‘#ICommit – Inspiring The Future’

    From: Stephanie Tague, Head of Building Our Skills Two-weeks into the launch of the Building Our Skills #ICommit – Inspiring the Future campaign, I am overwhelmed with the response but still urge more Fenestration businesses and individuals...

    Consumer disputes add to installer stress

    From: Faisal Hussain, Chief Executive, DGCOS At the Double Glazing & Conservatory Ombudsman Scheme, we recently published our Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) report as a Chartered Trading Standard Institute-approved ADR Competent Authority. The latest report...

    The problem lies in failure to invest

    From: Mark Mitchell, chair, Cornwall Group Current market conditions are creating a real headache for business owners, who are seeing costs increase as demand starts to stagnate. We are feeling all the pain of a...

    An early warning

    From: Richard Gyde, MD, Mila Post COVID and post Ukraine invasion, the global hardware sector had just been getting used to a period of relative stability when it comes to logistics and freight costs.  However, that...

    Return to Growth in 2025

    You Say by Nigel Headford, CAB Chief Executive: This quarter the CPA revised their construction output to decrease by 2.1% in 2024, this is compared to their forecast in the second quarter of a decrease...

    The end of the one-stop shop

    Andy Jones, Group Managing Director, Victorian Sliders Even when everyone in Britain has been vaccinated, and the worst of the coronavirus crisis is behind us, I suspect we’ll still find that some things have changed...

    No jab, no job?

    From: David Thornton, Chairman, The Window Company (Contracts) Charlie Mullins from Pimlico Plumbers might just have been chasing publicity again when he announced that he would be imposing a ‘No jab no job’ rule on...

    Burglary stats make the case for 3-Star security

    From: Strafford Cooke, technical director, Mila The personal finance website NimbleFins has done some really interesting analysis of the domestic burglary statistics contained within the most recent annual Crime Survey for England and Wales. And...

    Cause for optimism amid Yo-Yo wage pattern?

    From: Charlie Carlton, digital director, IronmongeryDirect  It’s been a volatile few years for the construction industry, and while new earnings data released by the Office for National Statistics today (November 14) certainly reflects this, there...

    Anthony C Jones FIAM FInstSMM, Chairman, National Federation of Glaziers

    I share with you in these challenging times the following advice given to our members which will be useful for the glazing industry generally: As manufacturing times extend this is becoming an important issue. Covid 19...