Plus Dane Housing has appointed Q-Bot to upgrade its housing stock and use its robots to install underfloor insulation over the next two years. The contract is also the first to be done through Procurement for Housing’s ‘social housing emerging disruptors’ framework. The large retrofit programme aims to improve the energy efficiency of at least…
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Plus Dane’s digital telecare with Appello
Plus Dane Housing has selected Appello to provide its first digital telecare solutions for residents. Appello will supply digital monitoring services to all 13 of the housing provider’s residential and extra-care schemes and will begin installing its digital telecare infrastructure and Smart Living Solutions suite into eight sites, replacing Plus Dane’s existing analogue systems. From…
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Plus Dane’s HMS tender with Skype
In a change from the usual face-to-face ‘beauty parade’ of tender respondents, Plus Dane Housing recently used Skype for Business to run over 70 demonstrations online as part of its goal to choose a new housing management system, with the ultimate aim of reducing its 17 core business systems to just two. Jill Burns, head…
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Plus Dane’s GIS asset management with Emapsite
Plus Dane Housing has been working with geographic data provider Emapsite in the creation of a new asset management data product. Emapsite explained that gaining instant visibility of a housing provider’s assets can sometimes be difficult. A chequered history of organisational mergers, stock acquisitions and disposals, combined with inconsistent methods of recording information, means that…
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