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Magazine Articles
ISHA retains PIMSS with asbestos module
Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association has signed a three-year contract with PIMSS Data Systems to retain its asset management software and add an asbestos module to manage its portfolio of properties. The decision to extend its use of the PIMSS software was based on the housing provider’s review of comparable asset management software and wholesale…
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New Charter saves £125 on voids with Aareon
New Charter Group has saved over £125,000 across its voids operation by using Aareon 1st Touch’s mobile software. The Aareon 1st Touch mobile voids process has enabled New Charter to produce a number of new electronic forms, moving away from a paper-based process. Voids are an important part of the housing provider’s ‘keys-to-keys’ process, an…
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L&Q’s performance boost with Kirona
London & Quadrant Housing Trust is now using Kirona’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler across its mobile workforce. L&Q set up its direct maintenance business in 2015 as a pilot project involving just 10 operatives, but this has since grown to a team of 300 covering 50,000 of its properties. The housing provider originally used a slot-based…
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The importance of data-driven housing
“One necessary qualification for anyone in management is to stop asking people to explain the ups and downs (day to day, month to month, and year to year) that come from random variation.” Dr Brian Joiner The importance of data and especially its security has come to prominence of late, not just in the housing…
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PIMSS takes on new asset management consultant
Ruth Dent, an asset manager with 10 years’ experience in housing, has joined PIMSS Data Systems as a consultant, with specialist expertise in programmed renewal business planning, component accounting, stock assessments, NPV rationalisation and budget setting. PIMSS said that an important part of Dent’s role will be in helping housing providers to implement the company’s…
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