Aerial mapping company Bluesky is helping Derby Homes roll out integrated solar photovoltaic (PV) systems across its housing stock. A project to identify suitable roof coverings assessed more than 8,000 addresses considering size, pitch, aspect, existing furniture and infringing vegetation. Using its ultra-high resolution imagery, Bluesky assessed the suitability of each property, measured the number…
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Housing Management
3D models paint a thousand words
Disrepairs remain a huge and high-profile issue for social housing. Civica’s Justin Fisher explores how robust data and modelling can make all the difference. We all want to feel safe and secure in our own homes. Safety was a crucial, up-front feature of the UK government’s White Paper for Social Housing which promised a renewed…
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Worthing Homes heads for the cloud with Civica
Worthing Homes is set to implement Civica’s cloud-based Cx Housing Management, Cx Asset Management, Cx Contractor and Civica Involve software in a new five-year contract. The housing provider has around 4,000 properties and is adding 100 new properties each year, so part of the project’s aims was to gain a better understanding of its tenants,…
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Q-Bot underfloor robots at Plus Dane
Plus Dane Housing has appointed Q-Bot to upgrade its housing stock and use its robots to install underfloor insulation over the next two years. The contract is also the first to be done through Procurement for Housing’s ‘social housing emerging disruptors’ framework. The large retrofit programme aims to improve the energy efficiency of at least…
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Transforming Trivallis with Dynamics 365
Following our move away from an old, no-longer-fit-for-purpose housing management system to a fully-integrated Microsoft Dynamics 365 system, we thought it might be helpful to others thinking of following a similar path to describe our journey and highlight some key learnings along the way. I wouldn’t start from here if I were you… Back in…
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The devil’s in the data…
From ensuring regulatory compliance to understanding tenants better, the need for accurate, well-controlled data has never been more critical. Yet many housing providers still rely heavily on off-system working, spreadsheets and manual interventions, downloading data from one system, combining it with data from other sources and then uploading it again to another for, say, performance…
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