Loreburn Housing’s director of property and development, Gary Alison, describes how the housing provider’s implementation of the HomeMaster housing management system from Designer Software has been a ‘game changer’ for its business and financial operations. We decided to move to an agile working environment back in 2017 but our incumbent housing management system was a…
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Housing Management
Housing in 2035…
Home working, green spaces and energy efficiency – uncovering housing priorities for the next decade; Civica’s Mark Holdsworth looks ahead to the future of social housing in 2035. Today’s housing providers are facing tightening finances while balancing affordable rents. They’re trying to be more responsive to the resident voice. They’re having to meet new and…
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Speculative design – The wider implications of AI in housing
This article is based on work from the CHAI academic research project, which explores how individuals can best recognise and protect themselves against potential security risks posed by AI-enabled smart technologies in the home. It is a three-year EPSRC-funded project involving five UK universities in collaboration with Housing Technology. Benefits vs. risks of AI technologies…
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Digital twin or digital cousin?
A digital twin is a virtual model of a physical object. It comprises an interconnected system of sensors and data analysis methods using aspects of artificial intelligence to learn about the systems it is monitoring and predict when issues may arise based on the experience it has seen. The impact on an organisation of having…
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Building data maturity
One problem with traditional data maturity models is that they tend to use a common framework for all organisations, irrespective of market sector, current use of data and underlying data management challenges. A scale from 1-5 or a classification from ‘explorer’ to ‘innovator’ could be accused of being an over-simplification of issues which are often…
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Untangling risk management
Risk management should be part of all housing providers’ ongoing business operations; after all, taking risks and mitigating those risks is part and parcel of everyone’s daily lives. However, in the context of risk management, it’s worth being a little more specific about what we mean, first to avoid confusion, and second as a way…
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