Significant trends are emerging in the window and door industries— and the savvy dealers who take notice now can get a leg up on the competition. Some architects and manufacturers of doors and windows are monitoring the customers evolving tastes and have identified the following key trends that expect will affect the building industry in 2016.

More people are seeking ways to integrate their open interiors with spacious exteriors and with this trend comes growing demand for larger windows and doors. Paola Palara, Product Mananger, Giesse Door Hardware talks about aesthetic and technological trends in aluminum door market. Some of the trends are mentioned below.

Minimalist trend
The minimalist trend in recent years is strongly affecting the world of building. The architects are redefining the rules of urban planning designing buildings more and more slender, with constructive design increasingly modern and daring. Large openings are required, together with narrow profiles and stylish accessories with low aesthetic impact.

Flexibility
At the same time, interior designers are pushing more and more on finishing customising by asking to hardware manufacturers flexibility in colors and materials. The color rather than the shape is the new priority for specialists of interior design. Offering a range of finishes wide and high quality both in aesthetics and in corrosion resistance, is a key requirement for door hardware manufacturers that want to position themselves at the high end of the market. The corrosion resistance, especially, is an element which is more and more required in the project specifications outlined by architects and consultants, that specify materials such as stainless steel and anodised aluminum, to prevent surface corrosion, pitting and areas of discoloration.

Installation
Among the different types of windows installed inside a house, the door is certainly the one to which it’s implicitly requested a very high level of security and reliability in time. A high quality door is the door that once installed, should be forgotten.

Materials
The use of high performance profiles and proof glasses leads to realise mobile sashes increasingly heavy that require robust and reliable accessories. Aluminum is certainly the material that allows to best match the aesthetic needs of the market with the excellent mechanical and performance properties, typical of this material.

Accessories
The accessories that are installed on the aluminum door (hinges, locks, handles) must therefore satisfy more and more high level requirements in terms of maximum achievable load, resistance to cyclic fatigue, corrosion resistance, burglar resistance and suitability for use on fire resistant doors, following the increasingly stringent requirements present in project specifications.

Paola Palara says, “Giesse aluminium door is composed by a full range of products that have all the necessary features to build a high quality aluminum door.”

The wide range of Giesse door hinges allows to choose the most appropriate, depending on the type of application and on the required performance. Clamp hinges to be quickly and easily assembled by coupling into the profile groove without machining, even with slender shape to minimise the aesthetic impact, or frontal application hinges, to realise heavy doors intended for intensive use (public buildings, schools, hospitals). All Giesse hinges are adjustable with door installed without the use of special tools and are CE certified according to the European standard EN1935.

Giesse locks range is composed by one point or multipoint locking to select in function of the application to run. “The range of Giesse door accessories is completed by a wide selection of handles, including  the newcomers Prima Plus and Asia Plus, with innovative design and available in various finishes, distinguished by the familiar Giesse product reliability, which has certified the handles to cyclic test up to 200,000 cycles” ends Paola .