Origin Housing’s Ben Daniels has scooped an award at Microsoft’s annual Apprenticeship of the Year competition, winning in the ‘support role’ category. This is the second year running that Origin Housing has featured in the awards, with the housing provider’s apprentice Ismail Mulla picking up an award in 2015. Mark Lordon assistant director of IT…
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What makes a successful digital organisation in the housing sector?
Digital transformation, a source of confusion and worry for leaders in the housing sector, is nothing to be afraid of. It more or less refers to getting a business ready to operate in a changing digital environment. Uncertainty surrounding the impact that Brexit will have on the market has, for at least the short term,…
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SDS team conquers Three Peaks & raises thousands for Shooting Star Chase
A team of housing experts from SDS has raised over £2,200 for Shooting Star Chase, the children’s hospice charity. Over an intense, energy-sapping 24 hours Phil Shelton, CEO of Cranleigh-based SDS, led his colleagues to the top of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon after weeks of training. They scaled Ben Nevis in three…
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Probing security flaws in tenants’ energy consumption
The Heat Networks (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 were introduced with the objective of empowering the end-users of communal heating systems to better manage their energy use through the installation of individual heat energy meters and free access to consumption data. Two years further on, district heating specialist Insite Energy’s managing director, Peter Westwood, explains…
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Scotland’s Housing Network benchmarks with Clearview
Scotland’s Housing Network is the latest organisation to implement Clearview Business Intelligence and Reporting. Scotland’s Housing Network is the largest housing benchmarking and practice exchange organisation in Scotland, with over 120 local authorities and housing providers as members, representing almost 90 per cent of the sector by stock in Scotland. The purpose of the network…
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Alysium makes new appointment
Alysium Consulting is continuing its focus on the housing sector with the appointment of Julian Freeman as a senior consultant. Ian Lever, managing director, Alysium Consulting, said, “This is the first of a number of strategic appointments that we will be making this year after having had a very strong start to 2016. “We hope…
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