Geoxphere’s Xmap geographic information system for local authorities now includes an EPC data layer to help housing providers and councils tackle climate change, improve housing standards and ensure regulatory compliance. One of the first users is Bath & North East Somerset Council, which is using the EPC data layer alongside its existing long-term Xmap installation…
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General News
Purposeful recruitment
Following the recent launch of the four-day week trial for UK employees, it’s clear the recruitment landscape and candidates’ expectations are changing following the pandemic. But what else can we do to attract top talent to our industry? Polly Barnes, commercial director at Riskhub, explores how having a clear purpose that improves people’s lives can…
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The E-State of Housing 2022/23
After a hiatus of a couple of years, Housing Technology’s ‘E-State of Housing 2022/23’ market intelligence report is back, with the aim of giving all social housing providers wide-ranging insights into their peers’ business and technology plans over the next 2-5 years. Across all sizes of housing providers, our forthcoming report will cover: • Future…
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Esri’s geospatial winners
Esri UK has announced Dacorum Borough Council, Nottingham City Council and South Ayrshire Council as the winners of its competition to find the best use of geospatial technology among local authorities. The competition revealed several common planning challenges faced by local authorities: improving community engagement; maximising the use of 3D visualisations; and managing developer contributions…
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What we learnt from the pandemic
In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the UK housing sector was thrown a new challenge with the government’s Charter for Social Housing Residents which laid out a bold new standard for housing providers. Combine this with ambitious climate-change targets as well as an irrefutable digital lag, and the housing sector was already on…
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Housing Technology Guide to IoT Deployment 2022
After several months’ research and with support from Aico, the Housing Technology Guide to IoT Deployment is now available; you can download your copy today from: housing-technology.com/research. Housing Technology’s research shows that the UK social housing sector’s attitude to the deployment of IoT devices in its tenants’ homes and subsequent data collection, analysis and reporting…
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