What will the housing providers’ repairs service look like in the future? This article (the first of two in this and the next edition of Housing Technology) from Chris Potter, ROCC’s Uniclass director, is his personal view of some very probable scenarios and others a little bit more fanciful, looking at what a 22nd-century repairs…
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General News
How Golden Gates generates £1m annual cashable savings
Peter Fitzhenry, managing director of Golden Gates Housing Trust, explains how the housing provider has generated savings of over £1 million in the last 12 months in addition to other non-cashable reductions and £500,000 in reduced building capital costs by introducing new technologies and processes. As government changes necessitate cashable reductions to ensure the future…
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Shared culture at Together Housing with Cascade HR
As a result of its merging a number of separate housing providers and their disparate technology infrastructures and business applications, Together Housing has just completed the implementation of a new HR and payroll system from Cascade HR to support of 1,400 staff. The aim of the implementation was to harmonise the HR policies inherited from…
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Internet of Things pilot project by the Connected Home Consortium
The Connected Home Consortium is running a series of pilot projects to assess how the Internet of Things could help with tenancy and asset management applications. The first pilot focuses on sensor technology to help manage tenancy issues related to temperature, damp and condensation in housing providers’ properties. The consortium is using Blue Maestro’s Tempo…
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Omfax appoints new project manager
Omfax Systems has expanded its housing team with the appointment of Marjorie Matthews as its new project manager. She joins the company from Capita where she was a pre-sales consultant for seven years. She has also worked with a number of well-known housing management, mobile working, and repairs and maintenance software providers, including Orchard and…
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How to be an IT ninja…
I’m not a real ninja. Let me just state that from the outset. I’d like to be, but I have a bad back, I’m from Hartlepool, and I’m not physically very agile… …Or am I (raises ninja eyebrow)? The word agile is used a lot at the moment, in different contexts and often meaning completely…
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