Plain English !!!!

Recently the Managing Director of Portico GB Ltd gave an hour long Continuous Professional Development talk on windows and doors in the new build industry with regard to Secure By design, Lifetime Homes, CDM regulations and all the building regulations in brief and how they all come together, very often being in conflict with each other.

"We try not to be just another window company" he explained "this talk helps us to help the technical guys and surveyors to initially build in the right product, hopefully ours, therefore saving costly drawing changes later on especially after planning permission granted".

The talk given to award winning home developer Weston Homes PLC prompted this response which really sums up exactly the the aim on this presentation:


"Just a quick follow up email to say thanks for coming in and presenting to us and some feedback for you.

Everyone is in agreement that the level of technicality was spot on: all from the technical department took something useful away and from what I’ve heard from the commercial team they all followed along without it getting too deep. Even as I’m typing this email Helen is using your check list to go through what we are issuing for our job in Cambridge.

There was praise regarding the fact that you stuck to the printed Power Point slides that were issued to us with no major deviation (which is very common with other CPD’s) which made it easy to follow.

From a personal point of view I very much liked the fact that you highlighted to everyone just how many rules, regulations & guidance’s there are to be followed and that at present there are some serious conflicts between LTH & SBD, etc.

All in all everyone is in agreement that your presentation has been one of the most useful CPD’s we have had in the office. It was also very refreshing to have someone come in with the aim of teaching us something over the course of the hour and not furnish us with a small bit of info & then give us a 50 minute sales pitch...

If and when you do update the Power Point presentation I would very much appreciate a copy to forward round the office for use as a checklist.

Thanks again.

Regards,

David Wilkins, Architectural Technician, Weston Homes Plc"