AliDeck Newsletter November 2021

FAO: AliDeck Customers and Friends

Hope you’re well and doing OK.

It’s beginning to feel a little like the holiday season, with the nights drawing right in, frost in the morning, and twinkling lights appearing on houses. Where has the year gone??!?

2021 has been a real whirlwind for AliDeck, with demand for our balcony component systems skyrocketing as construction has continued to swing back into shape and move on from the pandemic.

It has been a good year of hard work and, while we are definitely looking forward to the Christmas break, it has been great fun working with you all!

If you’d like to talk about any of your upcoming projects and your balcony component system requirements, please call us on 01622 235 672 or email info@alideck.co.uk.

Here’s your latest news from AliDeck, makers of non-combustible aluminium decking products designed to create a safer built environment for us all, which includes;

• New Standard; PAS 9980 for Fire Risk Appraisal, end of EWS1?
• Case Study: Curved balconies remediation, Poole
• AliDeck Balcony Configurator for Architects proving popular
• Balcony Fires Report 2020-2021 Explainer Video

The Housing Minister, Michael Gove MP has announced that the January 2020 Consolidated Advice Note will be withdrawn “by Christmas” and be replaced by PAS 9980, a new Standard from BSI on Fire Risk Appraisal and Assessment of external wall construction.

PAS 9980 will bring many changes but will it prove to be the end of the EWS1debacle?

Read more at:
https://www.alideck.co.uk/looking-ahead-pas-9980-end-of-ews1-balcony-decking-fire-safety-remediation/

It was great to see this complex fire safety remediation project in Poole, Dorset, brought to completion.

With large curved balconies on the building and a very minimal steel framework to work with our Approved Installer, Unique Outdoor Living Group Ltd, did a perfect job.

Read about how it all came together at:
https://www.alideck.co.uk/alideck-aluminium-decking-semi-circular-balconies-unique-group-dorset/

The AliDeck Balcony Configurator tool continues to provide architects and specifiers with an easy way to investigate our range of products.

A 3D web-based app, the AliDeck Balcony Configurator allows you to design your balcony and specify AliDeck, AliClad, AliRail and AliPave components, with a comprehensive technical report to download at the end containing the specification.

Learn more and design your balcony here:
https://www.alideck.co.uk/alideck-aluminium-decking-balcony-components-configurator-architects-specifiers-explainer-video/

Finally, our Balcony Fires Report 2020-2021 has made a big splash in the national conversation on fire safety in multi-occupancy buildings.

Drawing data from fire services around the UK, the Balcony Fires Report revealed the shocking prevalence and the causes of fires on balconies.

We have now produced a short explainer video that breaks the report down, which you can watch here:
https://www.alideck.co.uk/alideck-balcony-fires-report-2020-2021-explainer-video/