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T is issue of Housing Management & Maintenance


includes an in-depth report on our fascinating round table held a couple of months ago, airing the views of the supply chain as well as the sector, on eff ective solutions to fuel poverty. T e key focuses were resident engagement, and how to futureproof solutions using tech so that they would not cause future maintenance issues while bringing short- term benefi ts.


Some of our ongoing series of round table events have more overlap and crossover than others, and the subject of protecting tenants against soaring fuel prices, while cutting carbon and giving them healthy places to live, is one of those. It not only hits the general retrofi t picture, and the Warm Homes agenda – plus the future funding waves which we still wait patiently to hear confi rmed. It also crosses over to Awaab’s Law, and the need to ensure we don’t introduce unintended consequences by improving properties’ fabric and heating solutions, as well as the Remote Monitoring outlook for social housing teams.


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Subsidence repairs without removing trees or decanting tenants – Geobear Head of Social Housing, Omar Alata explains. See page 18.


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SUBSIDENCE REPAIRS WITHOUT REMOVING TREES OR DECANTING TENANTS Geobear Head of Social Housing, Omar Alata explains.


Despite all of the overlapping themes providing topics for our round tables, we have tried to ensure that each event has distinct focus, to make the content as useful as possible for attendees and readers. T e valuable insights from all of our delegates never fail to bring things down to the crucial day-to-day realities of balancing a host of priorities for residents, and bringing them along for the journey as allies, despite their struggles with both trust and fi nancial support.


T e oſt -uttered need for ‘holistic’ solutions can oſt en be the problem as much as the solution, i.e. the need to both consider all of the factors and permutations, and resource their implementation, can seem overwhelming. Luckily, as our round tables (as well as our related product features in this issue) show, the expertise, if not always the capital cost, is out there.


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