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GGF , FENSA & BFRC Combine to Launch the GGF Group ’ s First Market Knowledge Report
The first of any narrated industry analysis to be published for more than four years , the GGF says this is the precursor to the launch of an on-demand data service from 2022 that drills deeper than ever before .
» THE GLASS & GLAZING Federation , together with two of the organisation ’ s commercial entities FENSA and BFRC ( British Fenestration Rating Council ), have combined resources and data , to produce the GGF GROUP Market Knowledge Report for the UK glass & glazing industry . Long overdue , it is the first to use analytical insights , which have now been combined with factual installation data , for more than four years and in effect , produced for the industry , by the industry .
FENSA has a unique status in the industry . As the largest competent persons scheme in the UK with more than 6,300 Approved Installers , it notifies over 77 % of installations registered in England and Wales , and now with a recently established presence in Scotland . As such , the data presented in this report provides a thorough and accurate representation of the industry ’ s most recent performance , with data provided from installations completed during the past three and a half years , from January 2018 to June 2021 .
The BFRC data provides a breakdown of live licences for windows and doors and also analysis of products by energy rating . When combined with FENSA data , this provides a wide-reaching indication of product trends across the country , both currently and historically .
The GGF provides a broader backdrop of the sector , with combined input from manufacturing , fabrication , installation and also political and social issues impacting on the industry .
This initial report has been designed following extensive discussions with a number of industry partners , which established the key criteria for the project . The industry consultation shaped what will be covered in future reports as well as the expansion of the FENSA Knowledge Hub to become a subscription service that will enable the analysis of key industry data , covering other aspects of the supply chain , and with ‘ real time ’ data access .
THE MARKET KNOWLEDGE REPORT CONTENT
The report contains analysis on the Wider Economic Backdrop , offering a narrative on key political , economic and social influences to have affected the market during the past two years . A further section , The Grey Market , considers the crucial issue and impact of window and door installations that are carried out outside of any competent persons schemes . Industry Performance & Circumstances provides a narrative derived from internal and external reports and data which , together with anecdotal evidence and observations , offers a market overview .
The section entitled FENSA Installation Data provides recorded statistics on the replacement of domestic windows and doors from January 2018 through to June 2021 , the first time such information has been made publicly available . The breakdown includes
numbers of windows , doors , installations , windows per installation and doors per installation . Drawn from installations logged by more than 6,300 FENSA Approved Installers , these statistics alone provide the most comprehensive factual picture possible of the domestic replacement market during the past three and a half years .
FENSA Regional Data provides geographical data on installations , whilst Local Authority Performance ( by installations ) provides an insight into the top 10 performing local authorities whilst also offering a breakdown of average cost per job and cost per unit across the period covered . RISA Assessment Ratings is drawn from 40,000 assessments carried out on FENSA Approved Installers by RISA , the GGF inspection organisation . This data ranks installations seen between 1 and 5 ( the higher the better ).
Window Licence Overview provides data recorded by BFRC and offers a glimpse of the uptake in technological advancements and innovations in the design and production of increasingly energy efficient windows and doors .
FUTURE REPORTING
Whilst the report has extraordinary importance for an industry that has enjoyed little in the way of analysis in the past four years , it is the precursor to the FENSA Knowledge Hub , a service that will be launched early in 2022 that will give access to this and other data in the future , in near
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