What is the future of mobile working? Mobile working can help housing providers deliver a more engaging, customer-centric service based on the principles of convenience and self-service. For example, mobile technology can reduce the amount of time tenants are left waiting for repairs and home improvements, by giving workers the ability to diagnose tenants’ problems…
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Stockport Homes aims to SweepUp its estates
Stockport Homes is one of the first UK housing providers to use Housing Support Pro’s new SweepUp software to maintain its estates. SweepUp includes problem reporting by tenants, notifications and detailed instructions to caretakers, time tracking and job scheduling, single ‘tap’ sign in on mobile devices, inventory and supply management, post-inspection reviews, and real-time and…
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Gas Tag buys Morgan Lambert
Gas Tag has bought gas compliance consultants Morgan Lambert, with the aim of creating a “multi-disciplinary compliance consultancy” for social housing. The acquisition is for the Millington Lord Group, which includes Morgan Lambert, who work with social landlords to provide gas and electrical auditing and safety management consultancy, as well as Qualitas Compliance, which provides…
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Ottawa Community Housing takes Kirona for mobile repairs
Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, the fourth largest social housing provider in Canada, is set to introduce dynamic resource scheduling and mobile working with the introduction of Kirona’s DRS and Job Manager software packages to replace their legacy systems. The contract is 130 Kirona DRS licences to cover Ottawa Community Housing’s entire repairs and maintenance team,…
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Torus uses Kirona for dynamic scheduling
Torus has chosen Kirona’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS) for its repairs and maintenance service, mobilising its field-based workers and improving its voids management processes. Torus was formed in 2015 from the merger of Golden Gates Housing Trust and Helena Partnerships, with the latter already using DRS for its gas and electrical servicing and responsive repairs….
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Propeller launches integrated compliance system
Propeller, formerly known as VanCert, has launched a new digital platform for housing providers and their contractors to use their existing repairs and maintenance data to achieve better legislative compliance. Propeller takes all the data generated from housing providers’ repairs and maintenance activities and converts it into accurate and up-to-date information on service provision and…
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