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Vulcan Offers Extra Professional Duties
Hull-based Synseal fabricator and installer, Vulcan Windows, added extra value to a refurbishment project it carried out at Buckingham Street Primary School in Hull over the summer.
Shield PVCu profile was used to replace the windows, which formed part of staged refurbishment programme of works that the firm is currently carrying out for the school.
Vulcan Windows is contracted directly by the school, and has taken on other professional responsibilities, including doing all the risk assessments and health and safety co-ordination.
“Normally the school would have to appoint an architect or CDM coordinator to carry out these specialist works, which would have eaten into their budget,” Peter O’Brien, Vulcan’s Commercial Manager, said. “Since I am CDM-qualified, I can undertake that work, which saves the school a considerable amount of money that it doesn’t have. All schools’ budgets are being squeezed, and it is an extra service that we can offer because…
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“Sympathetic And Striking” Project From Vulcan
A Sea Cadets’ building in Hull got a new lease of life recently, thanks in part to the sympathetic window replacement carried out by Hull-based Synseal fabricator and installer, Vulcan Windows.
The period property presented a number of challenges to the company, not least the building’s general state of disrepair. “The Sea Cadets project was quite a challenge because the building was dilapidated and in poor condition,” Peter O’Brien, Vulcan’s Commercial Manager, said. “Most of the fenestrations were boarded up and there was evidence of subsidence.”
The company replaced the boxed sash timber casements with PVCu windows made from Synseal’s Shield profile. Extra care was taken to incorporate the very ornate internal decorative reveals.
“We replaced the frames while being sympathetic to retaining the internal finishes,” Peter explained. “The Chairman of the board of governors, Mr Captain Pearson, commissioned the works, and he and the rest of the board were…
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Synseal Pitches Its Roof Business In Europe With Fensterbau Stand
Synseal Extrusions Ltd will travel to meet its customers – and future customers – when it takes a stand at the renowned Fensterbau fair in Germany’s Nuremberg.
Synseal is using Fensterbau to increase its customer base throughout mainland Europe for Global conservatory roofs and SkySpace portal frame glazed structures, products for which the company is establishing an enviable international reputation.
Global conservatory roofs have proved to be popular amongst the growing sector for ‘English-style’ conservatory roofs, and also because these highly-engineered products are adaptable for local design preferences. Synseal intends to develop existing customers in addition to creating new markets.
In particular, the market for portal frame large-span glazed structures is a lucrative worldwide niche that requires engineering and technical expertise that is held by few companies and individuals. Since establishing the division just over a year ago, headed by acknowledged portal frame roofing expert Colin Poole, Synseal has grown…
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Synseal Hosts Additional Free WERS Workshops
Due to the successful take up of places for dates in February and March, leading systems company Synseal is offering fabricators further dates to learn everything they need to know about Window Energy Ratings, from the people who wrote the scheme – the BFRC.
Synseal is hosting additional free workshops on– April 25th and June 20th – and all fabricators, whether Synseal customers or not, are invited to attend to listen to the British Fenestration Ratings Council explain the finer details of WERs.
Topics covered by the workshops include:
• A general overview of energy ratings
• BFRC products
• Detailed Energy Licence
• Simplified Energy Licence
• Door scheme
• Authorised Retailer
• Synseal SEL
• WER calculator demonstration
“We know that fabricators and installers who push their windows’ energy rating are winning more business than those that aren’t, so we want to share that knowledge which will benefit all of us,” Explained Synseal’s Chief…
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Pioneer Boss Williams Continues To Press Ministers For Change
Danny Williams, managing direcctor of trade frame manufacturer Pioneer Trading, has established himself as a keen supporter of government retraining and apprenticeship schemes, having employed more than 25 individuals from long-term unemployed or ex-offender rehabilitation programmes during the past two years.
As an established and successful example of how government employment initiatives work in practice Danny was again invited to a presentation by a government minister promoting training initiatives in Essex, where Pioneer Trading has its factories. Introduced to John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, Danny took the opportunity to urge the government to offer greater incentives to companies that take part in government employment schemes: “Pioneer takes people from the various government employment schemes largely because we want to put something back into society,” explained Danny. “There are advantages to us as the people we take have been vetted and pre-trained by…
