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Nick Hudleston in a warehouse of architectural aluminium extrusions for facade, windows and doors

Glazing Industry Support
Building Safety Act, Quality, Tenders

I help glazing businesses strengthen quality and competence, solve product and service problems, and win better contracts.

 

I provide practical, experienced support where glazing businesses face problems involving quality, compliance, tenders, products or commercial performance.

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I work with systems houses, fabricators, installers and hardware suppliers.

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Are these issues holding back your business?

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  • Building Safety Act requirements proving demanding?

  • Struggling to evidence competence and organisational capability?

  • Quality problems, complaints or remedials costing too much?

  • Tenders taking too long or becoming harder to win?

  • Products, processes or commercial performance delivering poorly?


If any of these ring true, get in touch.

28 years in glazing. Practical results.

 

My glazing experience includes senior product, technical, contracting and commercial roles with Schlegel, Schüco, Comar and SE Controls, together with industry committee work through the Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB), Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and Centre for Window & Cladding Technology (CWCT).

What we do

I help with the following

Building Safety
Act support

  • What applies to your firm

  • Dutyholder responsibilities

  • Competence & Capability

  • Design & change control

  • Project & product records

  • Golden Thread

Quality Management

  • Gap analysis 

  • ISO 9001 setup & Audits

  • Documents & procedures

  • Management Reviews

  • Continual improvement

  • Certification support

Bid
Preparation

  • PQQ & tender support

  • Quality, Sustainability and H&S evidence

  • Bid writing & compilation

  • O&M Manuals 

  • Pre-submission reviews

Products

& Services

  • Market research

  • New product development

  • Launch strategy

  • Portfolio review

  • Troubleshooting

  • Growth & new markets

  • Product retirement plans

Selected client results

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  • Framework bid work marked "an outstanding response" by Cambridgeshire County Council

  • Won Wales national framework bid for a small contractor

  • ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems audits for an Essex-based fabricator/installer

  • Gap analysis for an Oxfordshire contractor of 200+ staff, helping expand their access to tenders.

Why Lantern Davis Limited?

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I've worked in glazing since 1998, across aluminium, uPVC, steel and timber, from Development Manager at Schlegel, National Product Manager at Schüco and Comar, and NV automation specialist at SE Controls.

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Formally trained as a product manager, with a BEng from Coventry and PGDip Business Admin from Warwick, I started out as a design engineer, so have a practical understanding as well as a highly strategic mindset.

 

I've sat on industry committees at the Council for Aluminium in Building (CAB), the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and the Centre for Window & Cladding Technology (CWCT), helping author published standards and peer-reviewed research papers.

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My credentials:

  • BEng, Coventry University

  • PGDip Business Administration, Warwick Business School, Warwick University

  • PRINCE2 project management

  • Product Management (IPM)

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You'll work with me directly.

 

Engagements can range from a focused one-off project to regular monthly support or temporary interim cover, depending on what the problem requires.​​

 

If you would like to discuss a problem or project, the initial conversation is without charge or obligation.

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info@lanterndavis.co.uk

or phone 0121 318 2125

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