Northgate Public Services has reported that its three-year contract to transform Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s housing programme has delivered savings of £5.7 million during the contract’s lifetime and the on-time delivery of the council’s Decent Homes programme. Northgate has since been re-appointed to continue the programme for another three years until 2014. Northgate was originally…
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Housing Management
Longhurst consolidates with Civica HMS
Longhurst Group has completed the consolidation of all of its housing management systems into a single version of Civica’s HMS across the group. The project took nine months to complete and cost around £50,000. The project extends back to 2009 when Longhurst was running five different HMS from three separate suppliers, spread across its four…
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Aareon gains ISO14001 accreditation
Aareon UK has achieved ISO 14001 certification for its adoption of an environmental management system that allows the company to review all business and operational processes, enabling it to implement clear environmental procedures as part of its day-to-day business. The ISO 14001 accreditation is an international standard that covers corporate compliance and commitment to continuous…
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Innogistic rebranded as Civica GIS
Following Civica’s acquisition of geographic information systems provider Innogistic in September 2011, the subsidiary company has now been rebranded as Civica GIS. Civica GIS will continue to deliver and develop the Innogistic product portfolio to maximise the business value of geographic data for customers. Its Fastweb application achieved the top rating for online planning application…
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LFHA slims down with Civica HMS
Leeds Federated Housing Association has replaced its previous multi-vendor housing management systems with a single integrated system from Civica following a nine-month implementation. The new system, which went live in April 2012, will act as a single platform for LFHA’s housing operations including tenant communications, planned maintenance and responsive repairs, rent accounting, arrears recovery and…
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Imagining future housing systems
I have recently been thinking about the majority of housing systems being used by housing providers. It seems to me that almost all of the systems we use were designed and built in the last century. Although it’s true that these systems have been developed, extended and modified continually over their lifecycles, we should not…
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