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OCTOBER 2015 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
www.proinstaller.co.uk
Chris Globe,
Inside the Box Marketing
GOING FROM
STRENGTH TO
STRENTGH
It has been announced that
Network VEKA meets all
the requirements of the new
international standard for operators
of competent persons schemes.
Roger Hartshorn,
Group CEO, Liniar
Goodbye,
for now!
Many will know industry figure Chris Globe,
originally employed at
Liniar to head up the
Commercial Sales function in 2010. With his
marketing background,
when Liniar needed
extra support in that
area, he was ideally
placed to step in and
help – launching his
own business, Inside
The Box Marketing at
the same time.
Throughout his time with
Liniar, Chris has always
been a strong ambassador for the systems house,
writing countless articles
and press releases and
project-managing Liniar’s
presence at the Ecobuild
exhibition and the inaugural
FIT Show in 2013.
As Liniar has continued to
grow, so has the client base
at Inside The Box.
Servicing a wide range of
clients across and beyond
the industry, Chris now
provides PR and marketing
support to companies both
large and small. In addition,
Chris launched the Independent Ratings Company
last year, enabling clients to
add value through independent customer feedback.
In the last few years,
Liniar has boosted its own
internal marketing function – with a team led by
Marketing Director Sue
Davenport creating online
and offline collateral to
support Liniar customers
and managing communication through a variety
of channels, including the
recent launch of a brand
new website.
The parties’ mutual
success has now led to
Liniar and Chris agreeing to
formally part ways, so Chris
can focus on his other clients and take his business
to even greater heights. The
Commercial Sales function
at Liniar will be managed
in-house by Charlotte Curtis, Business Development
Co-ordinator and the current regional sales team.
Roger Hartshorn comments: “I’d like to say thank
you to Chris for everything
he has helped us to achieve
at Liniar, and to wish him
every success with his
business ventures. I’m sure
there will be many more
opportunities for us to
work together again in the
future, so it’s not goodbye –
more ‘au revoir’ for now.”
Chris can be
contacted at chris@
insidetheboxmarketing.co.uk
www.liniar.co.uk
Assure Windows and
Doors is the UKAS-accredited, official
competent persons
scheme authorised by
the Department for
Communities and Local
Government (DCLG) and
operated by Network
VEKA.
Technical and Compliance
Manager Austin Greene
explains: “The Assure team
are proud to consistently
maintain exceptional standards and were pleased to
hear from UKAS that the
organisation has successfully completed the transition
to the new international
standard, with which all
competent persons scheme
operators must comply. This
means we are now officially certified to ISO 17065:
2012.
“It came as little surprise that Assure’s installer
numbers doubled last year.
Provided they meet the
necessary requirements, installers of any type of PVCu
window and door systems
are welcome to join the
Assure Competent Persons
Scheme. This allows them to
self-certify installations, instead of going through their
Local Authority Building
Control Department.
“As well as allowing for
self certification, Assure
also enables its installers
and surveyors to prove
their MTCs with branded
ID cards, access subsidised
NVQs, update their industry
knowledge through CPD
training, benefit from Assure-branded literature and
much more.”
Following The VEKA UK
Group’s unique offering of
the industry’s only BSI-notified, window and door set
energy performance calculator last year, VEKA and Halo
customers are also now be-
ing given the opportunity to
generate their own Window
Energy Ratings (WERs) and
Door Set Energy Ratings
(DSERs) through the recently launched Assure Rating
Register.
For more information
visit www.
assurewindowsanddoors.
com or for more on
Network VEKA visit www.
networkveka.co.uk
Free Doorset Energy Ratings
From last month, newly registering window fabricators can
get free Doorset Energy Ratings
(DSERs).
New BFRC registered fabricators will
need to sign up to an existing BFRC
registered System House Simplified
Energy Licence (SEL) – but there is no
minimum number of window energy
ratings licences they need to purchase
– and the DSERs will be free until 1st
January 2017.
Fabricator SELs start from just £300
per year and are capped at £840.
The following System Houses all offer
BFRC rated product through an SEL:Aluk (Beaufort), Aluplast, Door-Stop
International, Duraflex, Eclectic Systems
LLP, Eurocell, Halo, Halo Assure, Joedan
Group, LB Plastics, Leitz Tooling, Liniar,
Network VEKA, Rehau, Sapa Building
Systems, SBP Group Ltd, Schueco,
Smart Systems, Steel Window Association, Synseal, VEKA, VEKA Assure,
Whitehill Tools
If you are not with one of the System
Houses listed get them to contact
BFRC to sign up for the System House
SEL.
‘free access to technical
and marketing support,
and a free listing on
the new BFRC website’
“This is a fantastic offer for newly
registering fabricators,” commented
BFRC managing director Chris Mayne.
“Not only do they get the benefit of
selling BFRC independently verified
rated windows, free access to technical and marketing support, and a free
listing on the new BFRC website. They
can get all their doors rated for free as
well.”
This offer was available from September 2015 and will run until 31st
December 2015. It applies only to
fabricators that are not currently BFRC
registered.
For further information,
please call 020 7403 9200 or
email [email protected]