Poor housing has been shown to have a major impact on people’s health and quality of life. The Cornish research and innovation project Smartline is collecting data from environmental sensors fitted in the homes of social housing tenants in order to explore how technology can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of local…
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Coastline Housing’s e-health project
Coastline Housing is taking part in a multi-faceted research project in Cornwall to develop new e-health products, processes and services. Smartline is a three-year (2017-2020) project led by the University of Exeter alongside Coastline Housing, Volunteer Cornwall and Cornwall Council. The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund with additional funding from the…
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Coastline takes Service Connect from Cloud Dialogs
Coastline Services, the commercial arm of Coastline Housing, has completed the implementation of Cloud Dialogs’ Service Connect to support its repairs, job costing and appointment scheduling operations. Service Connect is designed around giving individual managers and supervisors dashboards that show them anything that needs attention in real time. Coastline said that this has led to…
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Kensa & Coastline partner on ‘micro district ground source heat network’
Kensa Heat Pumps has partnered with Coastline Housing to deliver Cornwall’s first ‘micro ground-source heat network’ project, attracting income via the Non Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive and slashing tenants’ heating bills. The project also featured the first ‘micro district ground-source heat network’ in Cornwall. Pioneered by Kensa, Coastline’s heat network comprises an individual ground-source heat…
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Coastline Housing beats UK government borrowing
Although not strictly relating to technology in housing, it is nevertheless interesting to report that Coastline Housing has borrowed £23 million via the Affordable Homes Guarantees Programme at a cheaper rate than the UK government pays for its debt. Coastline borrowed the money under a £500m funding programme agreed with the European Investment Bank, via…
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SharePoint beats mobile coverage for Coastline
Coastline Housing in Cornwall is using Microsoft SharePoint to combat the difficulties of very patchy mobile coverage across its rural properties. Justin Floyd, mobile solutions architect, Coastline Housing, said, “Unreliable coverage in Cornwall has been our biggest barrier to mobile working to date. Coverage is patchy at best, even with the help of BT wi-fi…
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