CHP has replaced its in-house mobile working system with an integrated solution from TotalMobile to improve repairs and maintenance productivity by 40 per cent and cut its external contractor costs by £300,000. CHP originally built its own mobile working system, known as Electronic Job Distribution (EJD), in 2005. This was a web-based application which its…
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Consilium
£80 million Wansbeck plan supported by PDAs
An £80 million regeneration programme at Wansbeck Homes will be supported by advanced mobile-working technology from Consilium Technologies. Wansbeck Homes, a newly-formed housing association managing 5500 homes, is upgrading its housing stock with double glazing, new kitchens and bathrooms. Providing mobile working facilities for the maintenance team will allow the improvements to be carried out…
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Consilium gets South Somerset Works mobile
South Somerset Works has replaced in-van radios with PDAs and integrated front-line operatives with back-office stock control. SSW is the contracting arm of South Somerset Homes, which maintains 14,500 homes, and has around 60 maintenance staff carrying out planned maintenance and repairs, cyclical servicing and gardening. The volume of work and number of service requests…
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A1 takes to the road with Consilium
A1 Housing has adopted mobile technology from Consilium to enable its maintenance teams to become more productive and deliver a more reliable service to its tenants. The 54-strong maintenance team at A1, an ALMO with some 7000 properties in Nottinghamshire, will use TotalMobile to receive and complete job information in the field, removing the need…
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Good housekeeping
Housing associations and ALMOs across the country face a raft of targets governing future funding and status. The Decent Homes programme, which promised a certain level of social housing by 2010, looks set to miss its target. Combine this with the pressure of successfully passing Audit Commission inspections and Housing Corporation assessments and it’s clear…
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