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Editor John Roper Tel: 07967 666794 Email: john.roper@profinder.eu Associate Editor Brian Shillibeer Advertisement sales SteveAnthony Tel: 07967 585475 Email: steve.anthony@profinder.eu Tony Bond Tel: 07767 626789 Email: tony.bond@profinder.eu Mehreen Haroon Tel: 07814 209789 Advertisement Production The Willows,, KenilworthGrove, Thorpe-le-Soken CO16 0LX Tel: 01255 860613 Email: fabricatorcopy@profinder.eu The Fabricator is published in the UK by Profinder Ltd. Admin: chris.sims@profinder.eu Opinions expressed inThe Fabricator are those of the contributors and do not represent editorial policy. The Fabricator accepts payment for colour pictures. Subscription rates: UK £45; rest of EC £60; worldwide £105 The Fabricator Vol11No12 ISSN: 1752-2145 www.thefabricator.pro Copyright ©2015 Profinder Ltd. ❐ <strong>THE</strong> <strong>FABRICATOR</strong> Comment Once again time to wish you all ahappy Christmas and aprosperous new year –which, from what Iread, may well be on the cards. This time last year I noted that the economy seemed to be recovering. And it has not been abad 2015 at all. We have certainly found things quite buoyant. As far as next year is concerned whilst Palmer is not optimistic about the domestic sector his recent report on construction predicts growth through to 2019 of as much as 20%. Maybe you PVC fabricators should spend the break sharpening your saws and ordering in the aluminium. Next year we do have the FIT show tolook forward to. Once again at Telford itwill be moving to the NEC from 2017. Personally Ihave never liked the NEC.Itisexpensiveand, unless the FIT organisers have done some stiff negotiating, that includes the very inconvenient car parking arrangements. Even exhibitors can find themselves pushed out into the far reaches of the north car park. Not ideal for someone carrying heavy samples, boxes ofliterature orunwieldy displays.Whilst in the beginning Telford was greeted with agreat deal of doubt Ihave to say itwas pretty convenient parking for free right in front of the exhibition hall. Perhaps the move signifies growth and is asign of success: we shall see. With document Qnow under our belts we have to wait to see what new regulation might await us in the coming year. Iwas at the Roto international press conference last month. Roto was, for the second year, trying to get the press behind acampaign totackle, what is apparently, arising tide of burglary inGermany. At dinner on the final evening there was apanel discussion between Roto technical people and trade press editors. Coming from the land of Secured by Design PAS24and nowDocument Q, Iconfessed myself puzzled by the whole thing. Iasked the person sitting next to me what it was all about. Sabine Schneider is astaff journalist on Baumaster aGerman architectural magazine.She told me that the German householder is highly focussed on energy efficiency and not very concerned about security. Irather think that the opposite is true here inthe UK.Triple glazing has really not taken off, the government has dropped the idea of zero carbon housing, following several years of cranking down Uvalues approved document Lseems to have gone into remission and, happily, the Green Deal has died adeath. On the other hand with Secured by Design the police have involved themselves indomestic security – something Roto would love to achieve –and building regulations are incorporating PAS24, originallyadoor security standard, into windows and everyone is falling over themselves to comply. 2 In association with On the other hand Irecently heard aninterview with an 'expert' who reckoned that, because of climate change, wewould be doing away with gas as an energy source in the future.When the interviewer asked “What about domestic boilers?” there was no clear answer. Look out for the regulations; no one can accuse the bureaucrats who dream up this stuff of thinking things through. In The Island Race Churchill wrote that after the Romans left, for hundreds of years the British were 'cold and unwashed'. Have ahappy Christmas –and here's to 2016. John Roper The Fabricator 2015
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