• Embracing Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and taking advantage of new technologies to deliver good quality new-build homes more quickly
• Delivering more energy-efficient homes to buyers, improving site efficiencies and reducing waste
• Providing financial support through the Home Building Fund to support builders using modern methods of construction
• Encouraging councils to deliver a new generation of council housing and explore options for innovation by lifting the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) borrowing cap

• Enabling social landlords with an understanding of residents’ needs and how they can access services online
• Building a picture of social landlords’ digital strategies and how they are gearing up for the future
• Responding to the key drivers behind organisations’ move to develop digital technology: better use of resources; meeting customer needs and cutting costs
• Ensuring that tenants can engage with landlords through a variety of channels

• Enhancing tenant services and experience with the Liberty Platform
• Automating business processes with low-code and RPA

• An insight into future proofing regeneration projects such as Meridian Water, delivering 10,000 homes over the next 20 years

The built environment must act – “I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.” – Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum, Davos 2019. In her session, Fiona/Lynsey will discuss how the construction industry must continually innovate to positively affect the climate emergency. The construction industry accounts for approximately 60% of UK materials use, and generates 47% of UK carbon emissions – 80% of those are from buildings in use. Fiona/Lynsey will demonstrate how CSIC is leading a cultural shift realise the potential in our pursuit of Net Zero Carbon.

The Vision Asset Management platform and Vision-tag offers you the ability to;

• Manage your assets… Identify, record, track, trace and monitor all your organisation’s assets in one place.. online.
• ANYTHING can be an asset… tag machinery, office equipment, plant, emergency equipment and signage to ACMs (Asbestos Containing Materials)
• Know your assets.. their location, their value, their worth, their condition
• View and edit your assets.. at site, building or floor level OR remotely
• Audit your assets.. use bespoke or replicated templates to carry out audits for any or all of your assets

Discover how Accent Housing use M-Files to deliver collaborative services and process automation to:

• Enable staff to work in a digital workplace
• Provide customers easy access to documents
• Automate the tenancy sign-up and right to rent processes
• Work with contractors to automate safety document imports
• Integrate with key business systems – how to use metadata to surface documents in the right context
• Enable data quality monitoring

Plus they'll reveal what’s next on their digital journey

• Creating a digital twin platform to give instant access to asset data
• Using Business Information Modelling (BIM) to create virtual datasets of the property portfolio including VR walkthroughs and interactive 3D models
• Utilising the new technology to support fire safety management using an app which can be accessed by the fire service
• Enabling firefights to assess incidents and put together a plan of action before arriving on site
• Utilising floor layout plans and elevation drawings in the management of the property’s maintenance programme and saving time, money and risk

• Ensuring that customers, the local community and stakeholders were kept informed through lockdowns via social media
• Developing a detailed engagement plan to plan and schedule key messages around tackling loneliness during isolation, acts of kindness and managing money, rent and support
• Receiving funding from The Supporting Communities Fund to support digital inclusion
• Providing a lending library of digital devices, an expanded community initiatives programme and increased access to mental health support
• Offering companionship and group activities to older people within the community and increasing their communication via the BHA BeFriend service

• Now more than ever before housing providers are under pressure to improve fire safety for residents, and this will continue to grow as legislation evolves.
• We take a look at the trends that increase risk in domestic settings, and the key role AI plays in mapping these to support reducing the probability of future fires.
• With resources stretched across the sector we review how these tools can not only reduce risk, but support internal teams and processes, within current fire safety budgets.