The Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB) has enhanced its technical support for its 2024 membership growth with the appointment of a new technical director.
Appointee Dale Pegler has previously worked for a well-known systems company in a technical design, support and legislative environment, and has also led the CAB Technical Committee as chair for a couple of years.
He brings with him twenty years’ experience in the fenestration industry and already sits on several facade related committees and will now be able to represent CAB members on even more fenestration related bodies in the future.
CAB now welcomes Dale as he joins forces with other technical director Justin Furness to support its members in the facade supply chain.
Commenting on his appointment, Dale said: “I am looking forward to joining the CAB team in January and feel there is a great deal more we can do to support the facade supply chain across the UK & Ireland. To begin with I am looking forward to restructuring the Technical Committee and developing Member Working Groups to research and agree position papers within the CAB Membership and further enhance the association as a respected centre of excellence for specifiers.
“I also recognise the plight of the industry where we have a widening skills gap and the average age of experienced individuals is increasing rapidly with not enough new talent entering the industry. CAB have already started to work on the skills gap by attending higher education open days and by initiating the ‘CAB Training Academy’, but there is more work to do. We need to make a career in the industry attractive to school and college leavers as well as experience people in similar trades that wish to bring their experience into our industry.
“As I look at our industry, seeing how CNC machines and software have advanced our production capability, aluminium fabrication still lags well behind in automation terms compared to PVC window manufacture and, if we look at what is going on in automotive manufacture, I believe there is a lot that can be learnt and brought to aluminium fabrication. I’m hoping that we can raise interest in this area from some of our members and form a working group to research what can be done and feedback new and developing technology to our membership.”
