Poplar HARCA knew it needed to make its residents’ homes safer, greener and healthier, and it was also looking for better ways to manage its housing portfolio. The beginning – Tech, meet human ingenuity It all started when Peter Marcus, Poplar HARCA’s assistant director of research, development and transformation, wanted to prove that the air-conditioning…
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Digitalising retrofits with SHDF & HomeLink
Housing Technology interviewed Sam Collier, sustainability and ethics lead at HomeLink (Aico), to find out about the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) and how the inclusion of digitisation can support decarbonisation. The SHDF is a £3.8bn fund for improving the energy efficiency of social homes in England. All applicable homes with an EPC rating of…
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First portfolio-wide IoT roll-out with Stirling Council & Aico
Following Stirling Council’s original IoT trial with Aico (see the September 2022 edition of Housing Technology), the council has now embarked on the UK’s first full roll-out of a multi-technology and multi-sensor connected-home solution across its entire housing portfolio. 50,000 IoT devices will be installed over the next 8-10 years in homes managed by Stirling…
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The technology foundations for decarbonisation & disrepair
Tackling decarbonisation and disrepair are rightly at the top of the agenda for the majority of housing providers in the UK. The housing sector carries an enormous responsibility when it comes to the UK’s ‘net zero’ agenda. According to the government, heating our homes accounted for 17 per cent of all UK carbon emissions in…
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Barnet Homes & Aico: IoT & industry 4.0 compliance
As of November 2021, Barnet Homes has over 3,000 properties connected to the Aico-HomeLink IoT platform, accounting for 20 per cent of its total housing stock. The technology has demonstrably saved people’s lives and generated net savings. Following a smooth roll-out, Barnet Homes has confirmed it will complete a full roll-out of 15,000 homes by…
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Aico launches Housing Safety & Wellbeing Taskforce
Aico has launched its Housing Safety & Wellbeing Taskforce, which owing to the pandemic, took place online. The fire-safety specialists were joined by Sir Peter Bottomley MP, who introduced the initiative and paid tribute to the late Sir David Amess MP, who had given Aico valuable support during the original planning phase of the project….
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