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Unitised construction 10 year partnership
Aluprof has revealed that aluminium
J&P Home Improvements is
unitised systems are becoming more
celebrating a successful 10-year
commonplace as companies make
partnership with Veka Group and
them more affordable for low rise
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and smaller constructions.
The family-owned, Lampeterbased
Unitised construction is said
company, which has been in
to be primarily about the facade
business for more than 20 years, says
construction, and according to
that it has spent the most successful
Aluprof, was once the preserve of
part of that period working with
high-rise construction
Veka.
Barry Thomas
Constructing facades on-site,
Co-owner, Barry Thomas,
from the ‘ground up’, can be time
explains: “My Father, John, and I
consuming and form a large part
set the business up in 1991 as an
of the building programme, says
installation company.
Aluprof.
“We decided to move into
However, using today’s latest
fabrication in 1997 so that we could
technology, Aluprof claims that
facades to be manufactured off-site
offer our customers the highest
virtually any facade can be ‘unitised’,
and more recently with services
level of quality in both product
that is to say, it can be broken down
built in. Aluprof says that it has been
and service. We originally trialled
into smaller units which can easily
working with specifiers and main
another system before moving to
be lifted into place and joined
contractors to develop aluminium
Veka, and we’ve never looked back.
together on site.
systems which can be incorporated
“Fabricating our own products
Whilst not an entirely new
into or form unitised constructions,
using Veka profile means we can
construction method, Aluprof adds
and that it is leading the market in
truly vouch for their quality and
that technology today allows for
this form of construction.
ensure our customers get the style,
high performance, high quality
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energy efficiency and security
they deserve. Choosing Veka also
meant we were eligible to apply
for membership of Independent
Network and – when we were
accepted – it gave us a fantastic way
to quickly and easily demonstrate
to customers our commitment to
quality. It also enables us to offer a
fail-safe insurance-backed guarantee
which provides peace of mind
for homeowners when investing
in big-ticket items like home
improvements.”
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