Interview with Oscar Taboada, President of looming, National Association of manufacturers of wooden Windows and mixed Madera-Aluminio

Looming was born with the vocation and the illusion of positioning this product in its right place in the Spanish market of the enclosure.

The demands of energy efficiency in the building which marks the technical building code give the wooden window the opportunity to demonstrate the magnificent benefits of this material and the technology currently behind the industrialized woodwork.

Looks has an own Manager and will be administered by Feim - Federation Spanish of industries of the wood-, with idea of using infinite synergies with other subsectors of the wood in the construction such as the pavement, the doors, structures and roofsBoard and even the wooden houses.

Looks has many things to do: join the sector, train and inform, test, mark correctly, promote, disseminate, asesorar… and the outcome will be reset to the wooden window as a leader in the sector, without any need to exaggerate or misrepresent, because a good wooden window, by itself alone, is an exceptional closure in all respects, without limitations, fringes or weak points.

Looks will be officially presented in the sector in the main fair of the sector in Spain: Veteco. And it bursts with a vocation for collaboration with the associations of manufacturers of Windows and doors of alternative to wood materials, in the common goal of inform, disseminate and educate consumers, installers and other related professionals.

Due to the new normative framework mapped out by the CTE, the architect has been design aesthetic to the design for efficiency, both thermal and acoustic. The plans 'Renove' that they gradually emerge by autonomous communities and are now backed by a national policy of assistance to the rehabilitation and pursuit of energy efficiency, make very clear that the wooden window is a system of enclosure with a huge growth ahead.

The most notable success of the wood is in France with 60% in wood. It is thought that there is a tradition more than wooden window in Germany, where the population does not think both purchase wooden Windows, both because of its cost and its maintenance. It's a question of culture and deeply entrenched tradition.

Spain lives a small revolution in the area of the enclosure and now is valued more thermally efficient Windows and doors as they are those of wood, with which we are seeing a turnaround in the prescription, where until 80% was sliding aluminum without RPT (rupture of thermal bridge).

The enclosure is between 25 and 45% of the energy losses of housing. It is demonstrated and proven that a wooden window, a priori, guarantees greater thermal protection that another of PVC or aluminium with identical dimensions, profiles and opening/closing and glazing systems section, and is also cheaper and beneficial environmentally speaking (wood stands as a great Fixer of CO₂ face to the future).

It is very difficult to find any. Technological innovation has brought to the wooden window spectacular profiles and systems improvements. For example, in the use of laminated wooden profiles, to improve the utilization of the raw material. Industry uses, progressively, to the use of treated wood and finishes to the water, which are in a position to provide assurance of durability of ten years or more.

Therefore it has exponentially increased the quality of the enclosure, its efficiency is increased and, moreover, has reduced and simplified the need for regular maintenance of the Windows.

There are products for glass cleaning and maintenance of Windows in a single act, with which those care or renewals of the varnish that once were forced, tend to zero. In the case of a more conventional position, currently just applying a product every three or four years to water to the profiles to look abroad so that they can absorb and maintain their aesthetic benefits.

Walk from market, quality wood window has always amazed the consumer for its aesthetic. The truth is that they prevail today technical arguments, although he has always had and will have weight taste by the beautiful and natural; also in a window. The CTE has led to a shock in this sector, and the architect designs today Windows and doors more by acoustic and thermal efficiency that for its beauty. For the future, with wood the consumer enjoy a beautiful and efficient enclosure.

In the window of wood, best breakage of thermal bridge provided by FIR, which is a very stable material. The widespread belief is wrong, because the iroko wood, and even more, the oak, is more unstable.

The future of the wooden window will pass to a large extent with laminate construction, allowing this profiles to cover large sections of wood that meet the new demands of the market, and the regulations.

Spain manufactures superb Windows wood and mixed (madera-aluminio). Medium-sized and large enterprises are not many; rather abound the small carpentry specialized in the enclosure of wood. Therefore the marketing has been always the unfinished business of a sector that is now before the opportunity to demonstrate that they can meet the requirements better than anyone else and with difference that the poses for the building of the future with the existing rules. Looks will achieve little by little, with steady and serious work, this colossal.