The social housing sector is experiencing a myriad complex challenges that need to be promptly overcome. We have a growing population combined with an affordable housing shortage, national economic uncertainty and increased political focus on us from the housing Green Paper and the recent Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act, to name but a few,…
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Whatever happened to the internet of things?
This article is based on the presentation I recently gave at the Housing Technology 2019 conference; coincidentally, it was exactly five years ago at the same event that I first began talking about the internet of things in social housing. Whenever I have met social housing and IT professionals, they have reflected that placing sensors…
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Gas Tag buys Morgan Lambert
Gas Tag has bought gas compliance consultants Morgan Lambert, with the aim of creating a “multi-disciplinary compliance consultancy” for social housing. The acquisition is for the Millington Lord Group, which includes Morgan Lambert, who work with social landlords to provide gas and electrical auditing and safety management consultancy, as well as Qualitas Compliance, which provides…
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Gas Tag gains private equity backing
Gas Tag has secured a multi-million pound investment from private equity company Waterland. The deal, which values Gas Tag as worth in excess of £20million, will enable the business to scale up its operations in the UK and internationally. In return for the investment, Waterland will gain a minority stake and two of its senior…
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Wirral Methodist Housing uses Gas Tag for ‘no access’ visits
Wirral Methodist Housing Association (WMHA) was the first housing provider to adopt Gas Tag’s gas servicing software. John Harris, the housing provider’s cyclical and planned property surveyor, explains their use of Gas Tag. What were the main reasons for choosing Gas Tag? Accessing properties has always been a logistical problem for gas safety visits. This…
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Gas Tag to protect Housing Plus tenants
Housing Plus Group has become one of the first housing providers to deploy Gas Tag’s gas safety technology throughout its 12,000 properties in Shropshire and Staffordshire. Instead of the current ‘locally stored’ method of managing gas-safety checks and certificates, Gas Tag enables these checks to be captured on-site using an app on a smartphone. This…
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