The first quarter of 2021 saw unprecedented growth in construction, with housing representing 80 per cent of all new builds in the UK following lockdown. However, the restrictions of the pandemic have meant that many organisations are now lacking enough time and money to address the consequent maintenance and repairs that this upturn implies for…
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Mobile Working
Transforming mobile working
Even before flexible working became the norm, housing providers were looking at what was needed to empower their remote and mobile workforces. In our post-pandemic world, digitising even faster will improve mobility and agility for workers as well as enabling supportive and better service delivery to tenants. True transformation has to put tenants’ needs and…
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WCH’s real-time repairs’ tracking with Localz
Watford Community Housing has teamed up with Localz to roll out real-time operative tracking, with the aim of delivering faster and more flexible repair processes for both its tenants and its repair workers. On the day of their appointment, tenants receive a message when their operative is on their way, with a link to a…
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Plentific raises $100m funding for expansion
Plentific has raised $100m (£72 million) in ‘Series C’ funding from new investors Highland Europe, Brookfield Technology Partners, Mubadala Investment Company and RXR Digital Ventures alongside existing investors A/O PropTech and Target Global. Plentific plans to use the investment to expand its global footprint and to accelerate its product development around digital transformation in property…
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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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Vivid solves the MDM challenge
Two years ago we were in a right pickle. We’d bought one of the leading mobile data management (MDM) systems and, as we’ve all come across from time to time in our careers, it was a system that had never really got buy-in, wasn’t delivering to its full potential and either needed re-implementing or changing….
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