Great Places Housing Group is using Shelton Development Services’ ProVal tool for development appraisals and its Sequel tool for financial and project management as an integrated SDS Solution package. With 15,000 properties in 30 council areas across the North of England and a £150 million development programme for a further 980 homes by 2011, Great…
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Asset Management
Defect management from BluTek
BluTek has just launched Defects Manager, a dedicated solution to simplify and automate the identification, notification and tracking of defects in newly-built housing stock. Defects management is typically handled using a combination of email, telephone and fax, making it difficult for housing providers and contractors to follow the progress of outstanding defects, measure contractor performance…
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A2Dominion follows the BluBrik road
A2Dominion Group has enhanced its property development processes with the introduction of BluTek’s BluBrik project handover module. The BluBrik software automatically collates management information from multiple sources to produce real-world online view covering the development of an entire housing scheme. The project began 18 months ago and the system went live around the end of…
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SMS and asset management with Capita
Capita Housing is collaborating with Deeplake and Keystone Asset Management Solutions (KAM) to extend its existing systems in the areas of SMS communication and asset management respectively. Deeplake’s SMS software is being launched as the Capita Housing-branded Communication Manager (CMGR), providing cutting-edge and cost-saving methods of communicating with tenants. CMGR enables the tenant and housing…
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Accounting for Southern Housing’s assets
Southern Housing Group has successfully moved to component accounting for its portfolio of 24,000 properties with software from Real Asset Management. SHG now meets the new SORP requirements and is using its database of 215,000 assets to improve information flow and reduce the cost of its annual audit. Rai Agostini, financial planning analyst, Southern Housing,…
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Editor’s Notes: Spreadsheets – just say no
The most common obstacle to housing associations and RSLs achieving efficient in-house processes and delivering joined-up services to their tenants and residents is the plethora of different systems used across the various parts of their organisations. Many of the projects we cover in Housing Technology are being carried out to either address this problem directly…
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