2016/17 has been RHP’s ‘year of innovation’, the foundation of which was rolling out last April the UK’s first all-digital housing service, RHPi. The service, which is designed to lower costs while also improving service, will help us to invest £250 million over the next eight years in providing more affordable homes. For us, a…
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General News
Revenue boost for Alysium Consulting
Housing specialist Alysium Consulting has completed its second year of trading, with revenues up by 50 per cent. Since the company was started in 2015, it has delivered more than 100 projects for over 70 social housing and local government customers. Ian Lever, managing director, Alysium Consulting, said, “Our growth reflects the significant change that…
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Gizmos, gadgets and good design
In the early ‘noughties’, I ran a seminar for ‘constructing excellence’ on ‘safety by design’, followed a few years later by one on ‘designing out waste’. The purpose in mentioning them is to emphasise the fact that, despite new products and new and updated regulations, such as those dealing with high-speed electronic communications networks, the…
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GDPR training from the Southern IT Forum
The Southern IT Forum has contracted Data Protection People to run a series of training sessions for its members to prepare them for the implementation of GDPR (general data protection regulation) within their respective organisations. January’s session at Greensquare’s offices in Oxford focused on how to approach suppliers to understand how their systems will support…
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Housing Technology’s 2017 Internet of Things report
Launched at the aforementioned Housing Technology 2017 event, we are about to begin work on our first internet of things report, with the help of Dr Etienne Roesch from the University of Reading. Based on the EU’s Cocoon project on cyber security and emotional psychology in the context of the internet of things, the report…
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Housing Technology – A 10-year story
This is a slightly-abridged version of a blog-post written by Tony Smith, an independent housing IT consultant at Acutance Consulting, on his ‘Tony Smith: That Housing IT Guy’ blog (tonysmiththathousingitguy.blogspot.co.uk), following the Housing Technology 2017 conference in March. I remember in my days at MIS-AMS, at an NHF IT Conference at Olympia (remember those?), a…
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