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? Information for specifiers from the voice of the rooflight industry
National Association of Rooflight Manufacturers
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Why choose a NARM member?

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NARM, The National Association of Rooflight Manufacturers, has for many years been active
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Why choose a NARM member?

Our practical aim is to make NARM the first port of call for information on rooflights and daylighting, whether it�s to source a rooflight manufacturer, access daylighting and rooflight information, or request technical help. NARM aims to provide authoritative, unbiased, factual advice and information on all aspects of natural daylighting using rooflights, for all applications from small individual modular rooflights, to completely glazed architectural structures.

Our Code of Practice is very focussed on quality, so it�s important that existing and potential members are committed to meeting and retaining the criteria set out within that Code. Ultimately, we want all relevant parties (such as specifiers, developers, designers, contractors and clients) to value NARM membership as a benchmark when selecting a rooflight manufacturer. To give them the reassurance of knowing that the rooflight products and services they are specifying and using, comply with relevant UK and European Standards and Legislation.

All Full and Associate members of NARM are:

  1. Focussed on quality and have obtained, or are working towards, BS EN ISO 9001:2000.
  2. Committed to staff training and development.
  3. Able to offer balanced advice on the use of rooflights, rooflight materials and rooflight systems.
  4. Dedicated to customer satisfaction through the development and supply of quality rooflights and systems.
  5. Supplying only those products which comply with relevant UK and European Standards, Building Regulations and other relevant legislation.
  6. Promoting good business practice and publish clear statements on terms of sale and product warranties.
Active involvement of Members is the key. With the combined strengths of the Council we are committed to creating a stronger voice for the rooflight industry to customers, specifiers and legislators within the construction industry. Our strengths lie with our Members and a very well respected Technical Team. We are active in research and development and regularly produce and publish technical documents and bulletins. Rather than just following legislation we are, as a Trade Association, looking to lead the way in contributing to its development.

All members are united in our vision of NARM as an active organisation and not a passive, administrative function. For instance:

  1. NARM has a continuing working function in European Standardisation, leading UK representation on the CEN Working Groups revising and developing European Standards such as EN1013, prEN1873 and WI 00128038, and chairing the BSI B/542/8 mirror committee to CEN/TC128/9 .NARM are members of a number of ODPM Working Groups looking at revisions to Building Regs Part L due to become law January 2006.
  2. NARM is represented on the Advisory Committee for Roofwork (ACR) which works on roof safety issues, and NARM is currently developing further recommendations for long term non-fragility of inplane rooflights.
  3. NARM has been heavily involved with development of new harmonised European fire tests, contributing to various PII projects with ODPM, and continuing to be involved with BSI FSH/22/8 committee and development work with BRE FRS.
Membership of the Construction Products Association (CPA) is particularly valuable, and a relationship, which NARM will be strengthening. CPA provide a wealth of relevant construction industry information - commercial, technical and legislative - with a bearing on our industry, and provides the best routes by which we, as a trade organisation, have a direct voice at government level.

Naturally we want to see NARM continue to flourish and grow as an organisation. Membership already includes major manufacturers across a wide range of products and services, as well as smaller manufacturers also having an excellent product range. Membership is truly representative of the industry, but we would like to see a continued growth to attract as wide a diversity of Members as possible.

Jim Lowther

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