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Home exhibition showcased
Freefoam X-Wood Cladding
as the ideal solution for off-site
construction. One of the most
popular parts of the event each
year are the show homes; this
year featuring Freefoam X-Wood
Urban Cladding, prior to its
release later in the year, to create a
stunning exterior finish.
The whole house was built
prior to the exhibition by Off
Site Factory Homes in four
separate ‘modules’, which were
then transported to the show and
constructed to form one house.
Tony Fox, Director of Off Site
Factory Homes, explained how
the process worked: “To create
a durable and stable modular
construction we need materials
to be light, easy to handle,
and to withstand the rigors of
transportation.”
With the construction industry
facing challenges to reduce its
environmental impact and meet
the demands of the housing
crisis, modular construction has
become increasingly popular in
recent years as a way to address
and solve some of these issues.
Technological advancements
have increased the range of
applications that modular
construction can be used for
including hotels, classrooms and
healthcare buildings - but the
scope is endless.
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Business of the Year nomination
for leading sash window fabricator
» » FAST-GROWING SASH
window specialists Roseview has
been shortlisted for Business of the
Year at the SME Buckinghamshire
Business Awards.
It’s the second year in a row the
Olney firm has been nominated
for the award scheme’s most
prestigious gong, and in 2017
they went on to win.
Founded in the 1970s,
Roseview has gone on to become
a world-leading sash window
innovator, producing the first-ever
uPVC sash window product in
1985, and launching its acclaimed
Rose Collection in 2013.
Today, the firm employs 100
people, and, in 20 17, produced
25,000 sash windows, and topped
£9m turnover for the first time.
Roseview’s award-winning
Rose Collection windows are
widely regarded as the highest
performing and most authentic
uPVC sash window products
available in the UK, if not the
world.
Competitively priced and
highly versatile, the Eurocell-based
Charisma Rose is the perfect fit for
everything from upgrading existing
windows on older properties to
installing on ambitious Grand
Design-style projects.
The superbly authentic
Heritage Rose, based on the
REHAU system, has been
accepted for use in conservation
areas as discerning as the London
boroughs of Chelsea and
Kensington, Lincoln, Worcester,
and Cambridge.
www.roseview.co.uk
BREXIT NO BARRIER TO SALES
» » WITH PIONEER CONTINUING TO
supply conservatories to a French home
improvement specialist based near Paris at a
rate of two articulated truck loads a month,
Brexit will not present any barrier to sales, say
both supplier and customer.
Sales of Pioneer’s ‘English Conservatories’
continue to grow to several International
customers, including those located in
countries as diverse as Japan and France and
MD Danny Williams, a committed Brexit
supporter, says that none of his customers see
any issues with business continuing as usual
after the March 2019 exit date for Britain
to leave the EU: “If anything trade with
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Japan might even get easier but our French
customer, who has been taking around 150
conservatories a year from us for the past
six years, says that unless huge barriers are
imposed, they don’t see why anything should
change.”
The issue was discussed some time ago,
the outspoken trade fabricator revealed:
“Of course it was discussed with our French
customer and our other mainland European
customers when Brexit was first voted for,”
explained Danny. “We addressed the issue
again more recently. They tell us that unless
ridiculous tariffs and physical barriers are
imposed they see no reasons to change.”
‘If anything trade with Japan
might even get easier’
www.pioneertradingcompany.co.uk