While much of the debate around reducing energy costs has focused on ‘big ticket’ initiatives such as installing heat pumps or solar panels, significant benefits can be gained from smaller, more incremental changes leveraged by technology. Enter advances in 3D design and visualisation tools, with digitisation and building information modelling (BIM) propelling the housing sector…
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Asset Management
From blueprint to reality: Digitising social housing retrofits
With more than half of UK homes still having an EPC rating of C or worse, we need an extensive retrofit programme to hit net-zero goals. Wales’s target to enhance 230,000 social homes is a promising step forward but the construction industry continues to grapple with longstanding project management and quality assurance challenges that will…
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BCHA takes on Propeller, More IQ & Rubixx
BCHA has overhauled its maintenance and repairs services using an integrated set of separate SaaS products from Propeller, More IQ and Rubixx. The software underpinning the housing provider’s new maintenance and repairs services was integrated and delivered within six months. Alongside Propeller’s workforce management solutions and integration services, More IQ’s software is providing intelligent scheduling…
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Merthyr Valleys Homes signs up for Asprey Assets
Merthyr Valleys Homes, Wales’s first tenant- and employee-owned mutual housing provider, has implemented a new asset and planned works management solution from Asprey Management Solutions. Stacy Thomas, director of homes and places, Merthyr Valley Homes, said, “We’re now entering the next stage of home improvements for tenants being WHQS2023 compliant, which drives an even better…
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Eastlight boosts staff satisfaction & cuts costs with digital access
Eastlight Community Homes is moving to 100 per cent keyless access for its 550 blocks by using Unloc’s app and digital locks. Before its move to Unloc, problems with access management to its properties was costing Eastlight around £500,000 per year and 14,000 hours, including a no-access rate of 25 per cent and a four-day…
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Then & now – 100 editions of Housing Technology
To celebrate our 100th edition, Housing Technology invited a few of our longest-standing contributors to share their views on how the technology and business landscape has changed over the past 15-20 years, the milestones along the way, and what they think the future holds. Our sincere thanks to Aidan Dunphy (Esuasive), Steve Dungworth (Golden Marzipan…
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