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Yorkshire Housing Visits Aico Headquarters for a Product Development Day
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ico, the European Market Leader in Home Life Safety, recently welcomed Yorkshire Housing, winners of the Inside Housing
Innovation Week award to their headquarters. Part of the prize for winning the Inside Housing Innovation Week Award was £10,000 and support from Aico to develop their innovation idea, with Aico recently conducting a product development session within their Centre of Excellence for Yorkshire Housing. Te visit provided a selection of informative
sessions led by Aico colleagues, as well as a tour of Aico’s Centre of Excellence. A Product Development session guided Yorkshire Housing attendees through Aico’s development process from a hardware perspective, showcasing many of Aico’s product development journeys, including Aico’s connected home products and the benefits they can bring to both Housing Associations and their tenants. Tese sessions highlighted the uses of Aico’s
Environmental Sensors and Ei1000G Gateway to the Multi-Sensor Alarms, emphasising that all products supplied by Aico are thoroughly tested and designed with end users in mind. Creating accurate and reliable home safety systems, that are beneficial to all who use them. HomeLINK’s Product Manager & DPO, Jordan Toulson walked Yorkshire Housing through
the development and innovation behind Aico’s Internet of Tings platforms, commenting: “It was great to welcome Yorkshire Housing to the CoE – as part of their prize for winning the Housing Innovation Week Award we showed them how we go about innovating both our hardware and soſtware products, as well as some sneak-peaks at upcoming products and features.” Te day concluded with a Product Feedback
session, that enabled Aico to hear Yorkshire Housing’s thoughts and opinions on their product development process and the products themselves. Tis offered insight into what housing associations want to see next when it comes to fire alarm safety systems and connected home offerings. Lauren Hemmings, Yorkshire Housing’s ICT Service Development Manager, reflected on their
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visit to Aico: “It was fantastic when Yorkshire Housing won the first Inside Housing Innovation Award, including the opportunity to visit Aico at their Centre of Excellence and get a peak behind the scenes of how products are developed and tested. Te day was informative, interactive (including a demo of how devices work in reality) and opened up a chance to collaborate on future ideas for products that will enable our customers to receive insights via emerging technology. I cannot wait to see how Yorkshire Housing’s customers will benefit from the feedback that Aico and HomeLINK use for future innovative development ideas.” Aico’s Product Development Manager,
Michael Wright, comments: “We were delighted to welcome colleagues from Yorkshire Housing to Aico. It was great to be able to share in an involving and dynamic day, discussing all aspects of product innovation within housing to bring safer and healthier homes for residents.” For more about Yorkshire Housing and the
services they offer within the affordable and social housing sector visit
www.yorkshirehousing.co.uk. Find out more about Aico’s connected home
offerings and home life safety systems that benefit so many housing associations and their tenants.
01691 664100
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Building Adhesives and ARDEX celebrate awards success
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uilding Adhesives Ltd and ARDEX have celebrated award success at this year’s Tile Association Awards. Held at The Hilton Birmingham Metropole on Friday (24th
June), this
year’s awards were themed “Stronger Together”, and recognised the best of the best in the tiling industry. Success began with David Wilson,
UK Head of Standards and Specifications at ARDEX and Building Adhesives Ltd being presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his more than 35 years’ service to the tiling industry. Chosen by the TTA Board, this award
recognises an individual who has made an outstanding contribution on the growth, promotion, technical or training areas of the wall and floor tile industry during their career. A respected and leading industry voice, David first joined Building Adhesives Ltd as an R&D Chemist. A member of the Royal Society of
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Chemistry, David sits on numerous industry bodies including BSI B539 Technical Committee, CEN (European) Standards TC 67 WG3 and the TTA Technical Committee and has been responsible for helping to formulate many of the British Standards that tilers and contractors work to today. Success continued for Building Adhesives and ARDEX with Stacey Livett, UK Head of Customer Service, being awarded “Employee of the Year”. Stacey was recognised for successfully integrating customer service and order
management teams at Stoke-on-Trent and Haverhill, while facing major raw materials shortages, COVID restrictions and force majeures.
Despite these challenging conditions, she has helped deliver record orders for customers as well as ensuring end-users are supported with technical and product enquiries now fed into the joint team. Finally, ARDEX and Building Adhesives tasted success with “Highly Commended” in the Best Domestic Category, for a Dream Pool Project in Staffordshire by Rob Faulkner and his team from Abstract Pools. A very labour-intensive project, Rob carried out all the rendering, screed works, and installed the hand-built steam room, formed-experience showers, massage room and high-end changing room.
ardex.co.uk bal-adhesives.com LISTEN HERE 28/07/2022 11:39
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