The GIS-focused GI4Housing forum has confirmed that its next meeting will be at The Life Centre in Manchester, courtesy of Oxford Data Consultancy, on 19 October from 10am. GI4Housing said that anybody in the housing sector who is already using geographic information in their business or who are thinking of implementing GIS is welcome to…
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Genesis Housing’s £1.7m deal with Insite Energy
Insite Energy has been chosen by Genesis Housing to manage metering, credit billing and prepayments for its 4,500 heat network-connected properties across London and the South East of England. The four-year contract is reported to be worth £1.7 million. Genesis Housing’s de-centralised energy and heat-metering framework contract will see around 75 per cent of its…
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Making better use of data – It starts with design
As new technology keeps flooding into the housing sector and new sources of data emerge, imaginative ways to put them to good use are surfacing on a daily basis. You only have to read the pages of Housing Technology to see what’s possible. And it’s also clear that the way in which housing providers are…
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Suited to your needs
Planned maintenance systems have been used by many of the largest housing providers in the UK for over 20 years but have been left out by the smaller ones. Cost has been the main barrier in the past for these smaller housing providers, but we believe that future cloud-based systems will change this and allow…
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How analytics can help with UC and maintain your income
It doesn’t seem so long ago that universal credit (UC) was first introduced in pilot schemes around the country but we’re now just over halfway to full implementation, according to a House of Commons blog. The progressive UC roll-out to specific groups and geographic areas means that although an increasing proportion of claimants now receive…
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Secured by design
In this article, Jon Cole, chief operating officer of Secured by Design, the national police crime prevention initiative, looks at how visitor and access control systems can keep tenants safe in blocks of flats while providing landlords and the police with an unprecedented opportunity to investigate system misuse. Having a way of controlling who can…
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