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Get Britain Building Issues Manifesto Challenge
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Finnforest manufactures and distributes Kerto Laminated Veneer Lumber for many industries including the Composite Door Industry. The natural advantages of the Spruce used in making Finnforest Kerto are brought together by Finnforest's high tech, high quality manufacturing process to produce a consistently reliable product that comes with BBA Agrément Certification.
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Inspection Chambers
Kalsi Group has received British Board of Agrément
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The BBA certificate awarded to 1st Insulation
Partners Limited for their Cosytherm Eco Wool Cavity Wall Insulation, relates to a glass wool material, injected in loose form with or without ECOSE Technology. For use as a full fill cavity wall insulation to reduce the thermal transmittance of cavity walls with masonry inner and outer leaves, in buildings up to 12 m in height. ECOSE is a registered trademark.
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Moulded Roof Slates.
Multivap is a permeable spun-bonded membrane for all types of pitched roof constructions. Multivap 300 and Multivap 400 manufactured by Ubbink UK Ltd, has been BBA and IAB certified for use in sealed and unsealed warm and cold roof constructions. This very tough durable lightweight membrane is easy to handle, suitable for tiles, slated and metal tile systems in new build, refurbishment and conservation projects.
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Get Britain Building – the largest ever coalition of construction industry stakeholders – has issued a challenge to all Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) in the forthcoming election to use the building industry as a motor to revive the UK economy with the launch of its 2010 General Election Manifesto. The 2010 Manifesto sets out an agenda for common sense and has some very clear messages for future politicians. It has been issued to every single PPC in the UK, given that there is likely to be a larger intake of new MPs than ever before. The four-page, four-colour tract is packed
with easy-for-MPs-to-grasp facts and figures underlining the significance of the UK construction industry to the country’s economic and social well-being. Foremost among the policy points posited by GBB is that the single most important commitment on which the new Government should focus is ‘consequential improvements’ to ‘de-carbonise’ existing housing. The easiest route to accomplish this would be to selectively reduce VAT on home improvements where specific actions to take carbon out of the building envelope are completed. A 5 % VAT rate already exists for fuel and some energy saving measures. Extending this to home improvement will encourage both private and public homeowners to invest in ways to (a) use less energy (b) use energy more efficiently or (c) obtain energy from renewable sources – at the same time as altering, extending or renovating homes. Such a policy would ensure spending is
targeted effectively, going where intended, by offering maximum encouragement to voters to invest to bring properties up to modern
Construction Industry Marketing Workshops at The Building Centre – CPD certified
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How to Develop and Implement a 3-year Marketing Plan and a 1-year Tactical Marketing Plan
This course takes place on
14 April 2010 with Course Leader Philip Collard of Marketing Works. It is a step-by step programme that will guide you through the development of your strategic marketing plan in the form of a
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structured day where all the required formats and templates are provided. At the end of the day you will have the necessary information to write and implement your own strategic marketing plan. This will direct your firm towards your identified objectives over the next 3 years.
How to Sell High Value Services and Convert New Business
This workshop takes place on
16 April with Course Leader Philip Collard of MarketingWorks.
It will
define the business development process, from establishing professional credibility to discussing appropriate and subtle sales and negotiation techniques. It will suggest how to break the ice, categorise and probe the prospects and demonstrate your capability to
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standards. Such investment will continue to pay dividends for generations to come and over the lifetime of a building. The recent Cut the VAT report – The
Opportunities and Costs of Cutting VAT: The effects of selected reductions in the rate of VAT on the labour element of housing repair, maintenance and improvement 1 – has already indentified the key benefits that such a cut would accrue on the labour on projects alone. These include the creation of 55,000 new jobs in the first year of a VAT cut; the freeing up of £450 million per annum for renovations on social housing; the bringing back in to use of 19,000 social houses back into use p.a; and a reduction in housing carbon emissions of up to 337,000 tonnes. Get Britain Building spokesman Mike
Leonard says of the 2010 Manifesto: “It sits perfectly with the needs and benefits of investment in construction; the availability of funding; the delivery of sustainability measures in housing and the requirement to create employment and improve skills. It is a ‘must read’ for any would-be politician at this critical time for suppliers, merchants and contractors”. While the housing industry is showing some signs of a weak recovery, the RMI and commercial sectors are still firmly in recession. GBB anticipates further falls in output and further job losses in the sector in 2010; and the inevitable attack on public sector spending poses another threat. “Our intention is that the manifesto will be a catalyst for a series of actions that will move our industry to a better place. In particular, we call upon all industry stakeholders to invite their local PPCs to meet you at your place of business or construction site during the election campaign.”
obtain client commitment. It will also identify the usual sources of new business for consultancy and construction firms. Delegates are able to develop their own personal skills through task-orientated role play sessions.
Critical Success Factors in Bid Management
This workshop takes place on 30 April with Course Leader Philip Collard. Efficient and effective bid management is the single most important critical success factor to win, so if your bidding processes have not changed over the last few years, you may have been wasting a lot of time and money bidding for work that you would never have won. This programme is packed with valuable insights and information and provides
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checklists, process charts, matrices and structures that will fast-track you through development of your own best practice bidding process
Winning Business with Winning Proposals
This course takes place on
19 May with Course Leader Philip Collard.Today's complex and demanding business environment requires a careful balance between the cost of sale and the profit that the sale may bring. If an organisation is only winning one in four of its bids, the profit from a sale also has to cover the cost of the three unsuccessful bids. The workshop includes a critique of your own proposal material and will review ways to help make your production efficient and cost effective.
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