The Council for Aluminium in Building has restructured its committee model, increasing agility and improving representation
The new structure replaces the previous model, creating a series of smaller committee groups designed to keep companies and supply chains with aligned interests together.
This includes a new Fabricators, Manufacturers and Glazing Working Group; a Standards, Legislation and Testing Working Group; Hardware Working Group; System Design, Finishing, Consultants and Software Working Group; Closed Loop Recycling Working Group; and U-Value Charter Working Group.
Nigel Headford, Chief Executive, CAB explained: “Our membership is diverse, and we wanted to make sure that if members were giving up their time to contribute to a working group, that time was well spent.
“The way that we were structured previously meant that the issues being discussed in working groups were very broad and weren’t always relevant to everyone in the room.
“We wanted to make groups smaller and more focused so that everyone in them was more engaged and felt that they could contribute more directly to what was being discussed.”
Each individual working group feeds into the CAB Technical Committee via an individual working group chair for further discussion and consideration as relevant.
Trialled for the first time in April, the structure now forms an established model with the next working group meetings scheduled for September.
“If there’s a change in regulation, we can actually talk to the different working group that’s relevant to that legislation, to look at that independently but still bring the groups and their collective expertise together in our Technical Committee”, Nigel added.
“It means that you haven’t got a meeting going on with 30 people in it, where five people are active and 25 are sitting there twiddling their thumbs.
“You have a series of agile and focused interest groups with far better communication between them.”
For more information visit www.c-a-b.org.uk . Alternatively email enquiries@c-a-b.org.uk or call the team on 01453 828851.
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