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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Mobile Working
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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Hafod Housing’s lone-worker security with StaySafe app
Hafod Housing has introduced a mobile app for the safety of its lone workers. Running on both smartphones and tablets, StaySafe is a panic-button app with a surrounding cloud-based monitoring service that tracks the location of a lone worker via a real-time map and alerts their manager if they don’t check-in within a specified time….
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L&Q’s performance boost with Kirona
London & Quadrant Housing Trust is now using Kirona’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler across its mobile workforce. L&Q set up its direct maintenance business in 2015 as a pilot project involving just 10 operatives, but this has since grown to a team of 300 covering 50,000 of its properties. The housing provider originally used a slot-based…
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WM Housing’s mobile surveying with Promaster
WM Housing Group has recently implemented Orchard’s Promaster Mobile software as an extension of its existing Promaster asset management system. Prior to the introduction of Promaster Mobile, stock condition data was collected in a variety of ways, with different surveyors each using different paper forms, and the resulting data having to be manually processed at…
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