Facade & Fenestration

Exciting New Projects

Elk Recruitment, as winners of the Best Niche Recruitment Firm 2016-Global, can offer job seekers the chance of placement within the Fenestration, Façade & Window and Door industry throughout Europe and Asia, as well as North & South America.  Currently, both the Façade and Fenestration industries are enjoying strong growth, and business managers are speaking confidentially of exciting new projects and targets in the years ahead. Here at Elk Recruitment, we pride ourselves on keeping up to date with the latest developments and openings in this fast-moving sector.

Market Size Growing

A recent press release from Global Market Insights has predicted that window and door market size is expected to exceed USD 250 billion by 2023 growing at a compound annual growth rate of over 6% from 2016 to 2023. As well as new construction projects, repair and upgrade activities will further support this growth. In North America, a recent government tax credit for energy efficient doors and windows has been a huge success. In the Middle East, 2017 will be the busiest year for hotel openings, and a new industry report has revealed. Also of interest to those in the Façade and Fenestration sector is the forecast that the UAE and Saudi Arabia will, between them, open more than 320 new hotels before 2020.

Green Building

One of the most exciting pre-announcements from the upcoming Intersolar Middle East event, (September 19 to 21), was that in 2017, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) would complete Dubai’s first 100% solar-powered hotel. Complementing the news of this venture was the Green Building Conference which took place last week in Singapore.  One of the main topics up for discussion was whether all buildings could be made net-zero regarding their carbon footprint and if not, the short-term target should be reduced energy consumption. All of these developments will result in a growing job market and further opportunities for suitable candidates. At Elk Recruitment, our in-depth knowledge of the Façade and Fenestration sector means we are at the forefront of this industry and are strategically positioned to offer exciting new placements within this sector.

Unitized Curtain Walling & Supply Chain Management!

Unitized Curtain Walling & Supply Chain Management

Along with an excellent design team with a design for manufacture mind set, one of the other main key ingredients to executing a successful unitised curtain walling project is making sure you have in place and BEFORE you start an excellently controlled well-oiled supply chain. A unitised curtain walling project needs to be visualised and mapped as an assembly line starting at estimation and running right through design, procurement, manufacturing, installation to hand over on site. In order for the project to be successful this assembly line must be managed meticulously with as much precision and planning as an automotive line. With unitised curtain walling you really are “only as good as its weakest link”

Its only Unitised, a statement you perish on!

A unitised curtain walling panel is a completed assembled section of the external envelope which may contain some or all of the following curtain walling parts, Aluminium Profiles, Steel Profiles, Steel inserts, Aluminium Panels, Galvanised Panels, Insulation, EPDM, Glass, Gaskets, Steel brackets, Aluminium Brackets, Fixings and Sealants. To complicate matters even more, all of these parts can come from different suppliers from different countries with different lead times and some components may have multiple steps to go through in order for it to be fit for purpose such as fabrication then powder coating, not to mention that you have a curing time when structurally bonding glass to the unitised frames and they must remain horizontal. The fun part is ensuring that despite all this, all of the required components must end up on the production line at the same time with the drawings, otherwise the unitised panel even without only one screw cannot be completed.

What happens when your supply chain is uncontrolled?

“Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail” it really is that simple. Unlike stick curtain walling, a poorly managed unitised curtain walling supply chain usually shows up first in the factory which can result in some or all of the following issues,

• Production line is running only in some cells, its running slowly or fully stopped
• Incomplete unitised Panels scattered throughout the factory with missing components taking up space
• Double handling unitised panels in the factory, stacking them until correct materials finally arrive
• Overtime goes through the roof trying to pull the project back in
• Panels arriving to site in the wrong sequence that cannot be installed in the right sequence
• Complete confusion, site ends up telling the factory which panels they need first, Quality suffers
• Cash flow on project goes out the window (excuse the pun) due to delays
• Client not happy, staff not happy
• You lose future business

Then why unitised curtain walling

The benefit of unitised to traditional Stick Curtain Wall when you get it right is twofold, the installation costs associated with Unitised are far less than traditional Stick as there is far less installation involved and it gets installed in a far shorter period of time 15 panels – 30 panels per day, the Quality of installation is also far better as most of the installation work is actually carried out in a controlled factory environment before it goes to site.

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Elk Recruitment are connecting success and on the Move!

Elk Recruitment are so excited to announce that we have opened up our UK address in City Road, London. The reason for this, as stated by Clive Dunne of Elk Recruitment is

“To be close to the action currently experienced in the growing fenestration industry there, it is also what our growing Curtain Walling client base require from us as a specialist in our field so that at the drop of a hat an Elk Recruitment representative can be onsite to discuss/resolve staffing issues”

Growth has been consistent in the fenestration industry to date and this has been seen in many geographical locations such as the United Kingdom , the Americas and also a welcomed recent upsurge in the Irish market both in the commercial and residential Façade sectors. This increase in activity across the board does not come without its Ying & Yang which currently present in the form of skilled staff shortages which is now an issue for most organisations especially in the curtain walling arena.

Of these skilled staff shortages Senior Façade Designers, Façade Designers, Draughtsmen and Façade Project Management disciplines seem to be most hit. The other point to note and as a direct result of demand is there has been a noticeable increase in salary scales for these disciplines in the façade industry and there doesn’t seem to be any signs of slowing as demand continues, counter offers also now seem to be unfortunately the norm.

Elk Recruitment are looking forward to growing our presence in Ireland, the UK and the Americas going forward, the response and welcoming of our business to the Façade market has been amazing thus far and long may it continue, However in order for our partnerships to develop effectively we are quickly seeing that it is extremely important that our clients take a serious look at their upcoming projects based on current demand and plan their staffing requirements way in advance to ensure the right resources are available at Kick off.

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A Guide to CV Excellence Part 2

So welcome back and thank you again for joining me.

Saturday morning, the sun is shining and I have the fortunate task this morning of writing for you wonderful people.

Curriculum Vitaes like them or loth them, but never underestimate the importance of getting it right. During our last blog I gave you an introduction as to who am I, why I chose this blog and problems I see that people have with creating a Curriculum Vitae.  I also hopefully gave you an idea as to why I am qualified to write about this topic and I also asked you to review your existing CV, which I hope you did?

There are a number of key ingredients in creating an excellent CV, but most of them fall under two very important distinctive headings which are Layout & Content, layout we will cover today.  Layout is the visual impact & aesthetics of the CV, in simple terms when the soft copy of your CV is opened or a hard copy of you CV passes onto a reviewers desk it must automatically please the reader’s eye and subconsciously lure him/her to engage & read this fine specimen of a document, it can NOT be a chore or you will end up in the bin!

The Layout/Sequence I find most effective & logical, based on experience and feedback from both candidates and employers is as follows,

Soft Copy attached to an email

• I always advise job seekers to submit their CV as a pdf, as it comes across as a more professional document submittal when the email is opened.
• The CV should be saved as Name & Occupation CV (example: Clive Dunne Operations Manager CV)

Actual CV

• Sequence:
  • CV Title
  • Personal Details

• Summary Section paragraph (5-6 lines max written in the third person) followed by skillset bullet points
• Qualifications/Education

• Career History (in sequence starting with most recent)
• Prior Career History

• Additional Details

As you can see from the previous sections of CV shown, there are clean lines and indentations in the document as you scan through it and a logical sequence to the layout and most importantly it’s pleasing to the reader’s eye.

You might ask why I use yellow, well yellow is the one colour that gets noticed most.

http://www.moosepeterson.com/techtips/color.html

“Yellow – is the most visible color and is the first color the human eye notices! Yellow, the color nearest to “light” leaves a warm and satisfying impression, lively and stimulating and in many cultures symbolizes deity. Dark yellow can be oppressive while light yellow is breezy. Yellow’s stimulating nature and high visibility to the eye is the reason why many road signs are bold yellow (contrasted by black text). Yellow birds, flowers and skies are sure to be eye-catchers just because of the way the mind and eye works”

I hope you have enjoyed this session and found it informative and helpful, next session we will cover content

Have a great weekend.

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