Managing the energy consumption of your housing stock is a challenge that, with legislative changes, will become one of the critical issues of the next decade. The recent Ofgen / DECC consultation is still being reviewed with an announcement expected in early 2011. The expectation is that smart metering technologies will play a major part…
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National Housing Federation achieves NCC accreditation
The National Housing Federation’s IT department has achieved accreditation to the National Computing Centre’s Standard for IT. The Federation’s IT department is responsible for the provision of IT services to 150 staff as well as delivering ICT services to the Federation’s conference centre in London and its regional offices in Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham. Rob…
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IT rental – Is it right for you?
Joanna Sedley-Burke, business development director at Sovereign Business Integration, considers how an IT rental model could help housing providers cut costs. Are housing providers wasting valuable capital resources on purchasing IT equipment? In light of the government’s recent housing budget cuts and the pressure on cost-savings across all public sector organisations, it is increasingly important…
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Securing your future through technology
Necessity is the mother of invention, never more so than when the government of the day presents you with budget cuts of 25 per cent or more. Accustomed to regarding their ICT systems as tiresome obligations that soak up money, housing providers need to start thinking of these systems as weapons in their survival armoury…
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First housing provider for ProcServe e-procurement
Alternative Futures Group has been announced as the first housing provider to go live with ProcServe’s eMarketplace system for electronic procurement, delivered in partnership with Procurement for Housing. The PfH Marketplace is a dedicated e-procurement and purchase-to-pay system specifically for housing providers, with the aim of helping them to reduce the cost of goods and…
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Housing hat-trick for CES
Paragon, Govanhill and Inquilab housing associations have simultaneously launched new web sites developed by CES Services Management using its Podium content management system. Each project took around 10 weeks to complete and cost an average of £7,500. Margaret Torrance, director, Paragon Housing Association, said, “More and more people are accessing our services through the internet…
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