The pressures facing the social housing sector in meeting an ever-pressing decarbonisation agenda are huge. It’s well known that homes are a major contributor to the climate crisis. Powering and heating buildings account for 40 per cent of the UK’s total energy use, with England’s homes alone emitting more carbon emissions every year than all…
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Following the thread – What the draft Building Safety Bill means for housing data
When Dame Judith Hackitt published the ‘Building a Safer Future’ report, she recommended the introduction of a ‘golden thread’ policy, including the digital standards that should underpin the implementation of a golden thread of information. When the Building Safety Bill becomes law later this year, building owners will need to demonstrate that they have effective…
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Mobile first, mobile native and beyond
I first heard the term ‘mobile first’ not long into my software career while working for an ecommerce provider. At the beginning of the transaction journey, there was an ever-growing trend that consumers were no longer searching for products and services using desktop computers, instead using mobile devices. This was predominantly down to the evolution…
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Social housing gets in on the app
If you don’t have a genuine mobile app for your tenants, you’re falling behind in the fourth industrial revolution, when digital domains are blended with offline reality. A web portal will no longer cut it in 2022 – the world has moved on in the past two years, thanks to the pandemic accelerating innovation and…
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3D models paint a thousand words
Disrepairs remain a huge and high-profile issue for social housing. Civica’s Justin Fisher explores how robust data and modelling can make all the difference. We all want to feel safe and secure in our own homes. Safety was a crucial, up-front feature of the UK government’s White Paper for Social Housing which promised a renewed…
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Cyber attacks – Bridging the skills gap
Without the rapid adoption of digital strategies, it’s difficult to imagine how housing providers would have coped during the pandemic. In a matter of weeks, committed and passionate IT teams rose to the challenge of accelerating the pace of digital transformation across estates, enabling remote working and expanding online service delivery. Unfortunately though, as I…
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