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CAB Calls For Committee Consolidation
The Council for Aluminium in Building has restructured its committee model to increase agility and improving representation.
The new structure replaces the previous model, creating a series of smaller committee groups designed to keep companies and supply chains with aligned interests together.
For fabricators
This includes a new fabricators, manufacturers and glazing working group; a standards, legislation and testing working group; hardware working group; system design, finishing, consultants and software working group; closed loop recycling working group; and u-value charter working group.
Nigel Headford, the chief executive of CAB, says: “Our membership is diverse, so we wanted to make sure that if members were giving up their time to contribute to a working group, that time was well spent.
“The way that we were structured previously, meant that the issues being discussed in working groups were very broad and weren’t always relevant to everyone in the room.
“We wanted to make groups smaller and more focussed so that everyone in them was more engaged and felt that they could contribute more directly to what was being discussed.”
Tech at top
Each individual working group feeds into the CAB technical committee via an individual working group chair for further discussion and consideration as relevant.
The new structure was trialled for the first time in April and now forms an established model with the next working group meetings scheduled for September.
“If there's change in regulation, we can actually talk to the different working group that is relevant to that legislation and to look at it independently but still bring the groups and their collective expertise together in our technical committee,” adds Headford. “It means that you haven't got a meeting going on with 30 people in it, where five people are active and 25 are sat there twiddling their thumbs.
“You have a series of agile, and focussed interest groups with far better communication between them.”
Picture: The new CAB structure forms smaller committees to better align companies and supply chains with shared interests.
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Article written by Cathryn Ellis
30th July 2025