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Our most recent Housing Management & Maintenance Building Insights LIVE round table brought experts on tackling damp, mould and moisture in social housing together with social housing providers, associations and suppliers, to discuss practical approaches and solutions for compliance with Awaab’s Law.
With Awaab’s now having been in force for a few months, we brought delegates back from the round table held a year ago, to see if the predictions pre-Regulation had come true. Delegates including Martin Hancock of Clarion were also able to share real world experience of compliance strategies, and review how providers were tackling the new 24-hour and 10-day timescales for identifying hazards.
T is round table was sponsored by Tarmac, Cornerstone Management Services, and Ubbink, who all posed questions and solutions to the group from their diff erent perspectives. A recurring theme was how to best use data from properties to assist compliance, but also the attendant issues around gaining residents’ trust in gathering it. T e way forward may be standardising as much property data as possible, but in the meantime, the sector needs to know some basics like what ‘making safe’ actually means in practice.
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With millions of social homes still below an EPC rating of C, a data-led retrofi t model is emerging to help landlords, Luke Gale at Wienerberger explains. See page 35.
HOUSING MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE
T is was an important chance to review how the sector was tackling one of the most important safety challenges in social housing, catalysed by the tragic death of Awaab Ishak in December 2020. Our sponsors showed how there are some straightforward, proven, and preventative solutions to damp and mould. But before that, perhaps the sector needs to be better at sharing good practice, simply on strategies for dealing with reported emergencies and signifi cant hazards.
Our event was one refreshing example of this knowledge sharing, and we will certainly be coming back to this subject, in diff erent iterations, in coming years.
Editor’s Comment
RETROFIT SOLUTIONS
Wienerberger’s data-led model simplifi es retrofi t for landlords Industry research reveals current retrofi t approaches
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