DGB Magazine - Building Regulations

help homes become more efficient and reduce our carbon footprint. This should be a given. This then should also make for a fantastic marketing opportunity.

I think now would be a good time for the industry to start to talk to homeowners about the new regulations due to take effect in a couple of years. Education should start now, which will allow installers to sell products which meet the new regulations well in advance of 2025 as and when those products become available. Being able to advertise future-proofed windows and doors well ahead of new regulations would be quite an advantage I would think.

I don’t think we should underplay the significance of the changes coming down the road. Two and a half years is not that long to wait, and there is going to be vast changes to existing products and a whole host of new window and door systems coming online just to be able to meet the new minimum U-Values. It’s going to change the sector profoundly.