Saint-Petersburg, April 20. Aluminium windows are completely competitive compared to wooden and PVC ones for use in housing construction. This opinion was expressed at a special seminar "Aluminium window for mass housing construction", organized by the Russian Guild of Developers and Managers together with the Aluminum Association. The seminar was held on the site of the Housing Committee of St. Petersburg as a part of the project "Product Catalog of the Russian Federation". Representatives of the Committee for Construction and the Housing Committee of St. Petersburg, SIEPC Interregional Window Institute, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, TATPROF, KraMZ, Master, Realit, Guardian, Winkhaus, as well as largest developers and design institutes of the North-West – Legenda Development, Setl City, Pioneer Group, Etalon Group (LenSpecSmu), LSR Nedvizhimost NW, FUTURA-ARCHITECTS, AW Cycynna and others took part in the work.
As noted during the discussion, the cost of the aluminium window is now almost equal to the color PVC extrusion windows: Installation of a warm aluminium window "turnkey ready" today costs 6750 rubles per square meter, which is 15% more expensive than analogues of color PVC extrusion. To the advantages such as safety, reliability, durability, non-toxicity, as well as wider color solutions, the competitive price is added, which makes the use of an aluminium window economically sound. Certification tests showed that the resistance to heat transfer of an aluminium window is 0.65 W/m*deg., that significantly exceeds the standards set in the "Thermal Protection of Buildings" rules (0.51). In addition, the construction of aluminium window has 2 times longer service life than PVC windows.
Participants of the seminar noted that the combination of advantages of the aluminium window allows using it in mass housing construction, including the economy class segment. The developer companies invited manufacturers of aluminium windows to participate in bidding. In their turn, domestic companies are now ready to provide their own solutions to the mass housing market: "MastTech 61" (Master), Realit RW64 Light" (Realit), "KRAMZ APK04" (KraMZ), "Sokol MP-58" (TATPROF).