Team Aluprof’ Supporting UK Specifiers
How do specifiers make their choice of
systems to use within their designs?
Gone are the traditional ‘Sales Teams’
promoting their systems’ as specifiers
have more specific needs in order to
get the right product, fitted correctly
in the right location.
Libraries within specifiers practices
have all but disappeared, as the
supply of virtually instantaneous
technical information, including
BIM data, is available on demand via
the internet. Despite all technical
information being downloadable via a
key press, the question of how to use
the data correctly is crucial and this
can only come from experience, enter
Aluprof’s ‘Trusted Advisor’.
As the demand for high end technical
advice increases, Aluprof’s team of
‘Trusted Advisors’ are people who
are very knowledgeable in systems
specification, the options available,
correct application, fixing and use.
This valuable experience is something
the specifier can call upon at various
stages in the building design to
ensure the final building operates in
exactly the way the specifier envisages
and the client expects. Training is
crucial and all our team members are
trained at our extensive European
headquarters in Poland.
Our experienced team are able to
follow an initial specification on
a construction project through
to installation, ensuring that all
members of the product supply chain
has the right information at the right
time.
This approach is working
exceptionally well for us and has
allowed us to grow over the last 10
years of operating in the UK and
Ireland to become one of the biggest
systems companies in architectural
fenestration.
Specification assistance is just the
start of the process through to
project completion, Aluprof embrace
‘Value Management’ and apply these
principles to all project management
which is as important as the initial
product specification.
To ensure supply is offered at
the right time and by the most
competitive route, looking at where
the products are manufactured and
how they are delivered to site, can
make a big difference on programme. ‘Value Engineering’ seeks to reduce
cost often by removing unnecessary
physical material in a project in a
move to reduce costs of material
and therefore reduce the cost of the
project.
Often a ‘just in time’ supply schedule
can be adopted which ensures product
can be installed very quickly after
delivery, which reduces the possibility
of damage occurring on site.The
principles of ‘Value Management’
goes beyond 'Value Engineering' and
should be adopted by all companies
who seek to provide professional
services in today's construction
market. ‘Value Engineering’ is commonly seen
as a secondary operation undertaken
when costs need to be reduced on a
quoted project for various reasons.
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Of late, the term seems to have taken
on a negative connotation suggesting
just a reduction in material content,
not always for the good of the project
as a whole.