Manufacturer West Port was on a mission at Ecobuild – to get over to specifiers that modern timber windows are the sustainable solution.
Besides having its own stand, the Cumbria-based company also sponsored the café area near the Timber Works section of the show on behalf of the Wood Window Alliance promotional campaign.
“The timber industry hasn’t been very good at getting over its sustainability message, but we’re trying to change that as a business and as an industry through the alliance,” said managing director Sean Parnaby.
West Port, he added, was stressing that it could now offer “pretty much all wood window types” with a BFRC energy rating.
“We’ve got products rated A to D,” he said. “This has a particularly strong appeal for public sector and commercial projects where specifiers have increasingly rigid sustainability policies.”
He maintained that suppliers no longer had to worry about the PVCu competition’s criticism that wood windows were high maintenance.
“Claims that plastic windows are maintenance free just don’t stack up any more,” he said.
