Pro Installer January 2014 - Issue 10 | Page 16

16 JANUARY 2014 PRO INSTALLER PRO NEWS www.proinstaller.co.uk Revolving Doors Installed When Stratford-based Automatic Doors Limited installed specially designed revolving doors, manual standard (JD47 Range) and thermally enhanced (TD68 Range) swing doors and automatic doors at University of Warwick it chose Jack Aluminium as its system supplier. “We’ve worked with the University for over 12 years,” says Walter Bruland, director at Automatic Doors and a long standing customer of Jack Aluminium. “Installing doors where there are high volumes of footfall means we need the best quality. We don’t leave anything to chance, and all products we manufacture and use are fully tested.” “Jack Aluminium has worked closely with us through the design of the doors for this installation and gave us the technical backup we needed when it came to collating information for CE marking and new European standards.” Jeff Pearson, sales director of Jack Aluminium explains more about the changes in the standards: “The industry has had two new Standards which come into force this year for manual and automatic doors. The first was on the 10th April. It started with the ‘The industry has had two new Standards which come into force this year for manual and automatic doors’ Members of leading support organisation upbeat for 2014 A leading installer support organisation says its members are significantly more upbeat about 2014, than they were about 2013 - this time last year. At the end of each calendar year The Consumer Protection Association (CPA) reaches out to its members in order to get feedback about the state of the market and how confident they are feeling for the year ahead. Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the CPA provides insurance backed guarantees (IBGs) and deposit protection to installers carrying out home improvements and also provides its members with a host of beneficial schemes such as marketing support; training seminars; sales presentation advice and quarterly assessment reports. ‘Installers are winning more business’ Jeremy Brett, Director of the CPA, says the outlook of his members is in tune with the more upbeat feelings surrounding the UK economy. He comments: “Installers are winning more business and at higher order values; and they expect this to continue in 2014. “Next year is poised to be a pivotal one and all the signs tell us the construction sector and economy at large will improve. Schemes such as Help to Buy seem to be having an impact and a feel-good factor is returning to the home improvement market.” Call 01462 850062 new European standard for the automatic door industry BS EN 16005. This was followed on 1 July by CE Marking where safety features and U-Values must be publically declared. “We have been proactive in our approach to CE marking and wider testing to ensure that all the test data customers need is freely available to them. The project with Automatic Doors and the University of Warwick was one of the first under the new CE marking and European standards and we’re pleased that we were prepared in advance to offer them the technical support they needed without any time delays to the project.” Do you have something you need to get off your chest? Send your real-life work-based stories, industry questions and business annoyances to [email protected]