Nigel Headford, director of Deceuninck Aluminium, has joined the board of the Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB). CAB aims to promote the features and benefits of aluminium as a sustainable building material, as well as to promote technical excellence.
“We’ve been a CAB member for three years, and we’ve found it to be extremely valuable, especially because their values are so closely aligned to our own,” said Nigel, who has personally been involved with the organisation for 20 years.
“Since we launched the Decalu88 bi-folding door in 2019, Deceuninck Aluminium has pushed quality and sustainability to the top of the agenda in all our communication with suppliers, fabricators and end users. Having a seat on the board at CAB will allow us to not only learn from other like-minded individuals and businesses but to share some of the key lessons we’ve learned over the last five years – all for the industry’s benefit.
“I think recycling and sustainability should be taken more seriously by more businesses,” Nigel added. “There are good schemes out there, like the closed loop scheme from CAB, but no-one is really grasping them. It’s the same with net zero. The Future Homes Standard is driving the energy efficiency of products to greater levels than ever before but it is still treated too much like a buzzword, which is disappointing.
“As an industry, we have so much to offer because we have such a great understanding of the building process. Yet we always seem to be responding rather than leading.
“In my role as a CAB director, I want to help drive sustainability, and use my knowledge to help bring more business leaders on the journey with me and be a positive force for change.”
Read our interview with Nigel in the x edition of GGP magazine. For information about Deceuninck Aluminium, visit deceuninck.co.uk.
