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Glazing Summit – Have Your Say On Subjects
With just under three months to go before this year’s Glazing Summit, the agenda is starting to take shape but the organisers have asked the industry...
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Future Gazing, Glazing And The Future Homes Standard
In the continued drive to achieve net zero by 2050, the GGF has facilitated a meeting with Chris Beedel and its members and the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities to discuss the Future Homes Standard.
The Future Homes Standard is a set of requirements that will complement the building regulations to ensure new homes built from 2025 will produce significantly less carbon emissions than homes delivered under current regulations.
The plan is to use low carbon heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency to achieve the ambitious targets.
“The recent amendments to parts F, L and the introduction of part O, that had to be implemented by 15 June 2022, were the first stage of this project, yet there is more to come.”
– Kevin Jones
Senior technical officer, Glass & Glazing Federation
A role for glazing
“This recent meeting was set up to deliberate a roadmap for energy efficient windows and doors both now and in the future,” continues the GGF’s Jones. “GGF members provided real data for the meeting which enabled two-way discussions to take place ahead of the consultation that is expected to launch in the spring of next year.
“The initial modelling from the government will start later this year and further meetings will likely take place to discuss the important part glazing will play in the whole house approach.”
Beedel’s about
Chris Beedel, head of government advocacy at the GGF adds: “This was a crucial meeting with Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities to ensure that the glazing industry is part of discussions about the potential opportunities that lie ahead, as well as the transitions that would be required to deliver change.”
Jones concludes: “There is nothing more frustrating than new legislation being implemented that isn’t in the best interests of the market. Unfortunately, this happens all too often when industry and government don’t work together. The GGF is determined to ensure the glazing industry has a voice through genuinely collaborative meetings such as this.”
Picture: Chris Beedel, head of advocacy & stakeholder relations, GGF.
Article written by Cathryn Ellis
23rd November 2022