From Matt Leach, CEO of HACT. In the early 20th century, architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, wrote about the house as ‘a machine for living’. At the time, influenced by the development of new building materials and in particular reinforced concrete, steel and glass, this expressed itself through bleak visions of grey…
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ROCC wins contract with New Forest Council
New Forest District Council has awarded ROCC a five-year deal for the supply and implementation of its Uniclass system, following the expansion of its in-house teams. The solution is based on ROCC’s Uniclass Repairs and Maintenance system combined with its new Uniclass Mobile Working solution. After several years of growth within the council’s building works…
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Orchard’s clean sweep at the Housing Innovation Awards
The Housing Innovation Awards, which took place in February 2014 in central London, focus on highlighting examples of inventive and original schemes and services. Out of the sixteen awards presented, seven of them were for Orchard and its recently-acquired In4Systems’ customers. Among the awards won by the two companies’ customers, Circle was named as the…
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Orchard wins £2 million deal with BPHA
BPHA has chosen Orchard as the lead contractor to deliver a new system which will incorporate housing management, mobile working, customer relationship management (CRM) and electronic document management. The £2 million implementation is expected to be completed by the end of 2014. Orchard will work with South View Solutions to provide mobile working, Documotive for…
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Aareon QL Housing chosen by Six Town and Tamar
Six Town Housing and Tamar Housing Society have chosen Aareon’s QL Housing as their new housing management systems. Tamar Housing Society and Aster Communities have joined forces under a strategic partnership to provide more choice and better value to their tenants in Devon and Cornwall, with Aster Communities and Aster Homes staff relocating to Tamar…
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Learning to fly at Housing Technology 2014
From Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting. Blog: tonysmiththathousingitguy.blogspot.co.uk This is a slightly abridged version of a posting written by Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting, on his ‘Tony Smith: That Housing IT Guy’ blog (details below) following last month’s Housing Technology 2014 conference. It didn’t have…
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