With more than half of UK homes still having an EPC rating of C or worse, we need an extensive retrofit programme to hit net-zero goals. Wales’s target to enhance 230,000 social homes is a promising step forward but the construction industry continues to grapple with longstanding project management and quality assurance challenges that will…
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Preparing for the future of social housing
The new Labour government’s policy details around social housing along with its proposed Planning and Infrastructure and English Devolution Bills are yet to be fully revealed. However, we do know the government plans to use housebuilding to kickstart the economy. The new targets will be around 23 per cent higher than the previous government’s. Combined…
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Real-time fire safety
Advances in technology are not only making fire detection more effective and reliable, but also smarter and more integrated with other smart home devices. Traditional fire detection for housing is based on standalone smoke and heat detectors that trigger alarms when they sense the presence of smoke or a rapid increase in temperature. While generally…
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Are TSMs a wake-up call?
With the first year of annual reporting on the Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSM) now complete, housing providers are now patiently waiting to see how they’ve performed, with all results expected to be published in autumn 2024. However, if the results published over the summer by some local councils are anything to go by, many housing…
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Picking up the digital pace
The housing sector has been accused of not digitising data fast enough and, compared with other sectors, the pace of change from paper-based and/or fragmented processes to digitisation has been slow. However, since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, there has been a sea change in attitudes, with digitisation being driven by regulatory requirements. The…
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Thirteen’s award-winning debt recovery programme
Thirteen Group won the silver award in the innovation category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards. Kay Glew, Thirteen Group’s director of operations, explains the housing provider’s award-winning arrears management programme. Innovation is the future delivered; it lets us keep moving forward with purpose, to test boundaries and to find new ways to address…
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