The Housing Secretary Michael Gove is encouraging social housing tenants to complain to the government, spearheading the ‘Make Things Right’ advertising campaign. When residents are unsatisfied with their landlord’s final response, they should escalate their complaint to the Housing Ombudsman. In addition to time limits for landlords to investigate and fix damp and mould, Awaab’s…
The damp and mould crisis in English social housing affects up to 160,000 homes, confirmed in a report by the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). Following an investigation into dampness and mould in the social housing sector, sparked by the inquest of two-year-old Awaab Ishak, a report issued by the Regulator of Social Housing…
Registered providers were asked to give assurance on addressing risks relating to dampness and mould in tenants’ homes. On the 22nd November 2022, the Regulator of Social Housing has written to registered providers of social housing with a housing stock of 1,000 homes or more to highlight landlords’ responsibility to take action to protect tenants…
Introduction – Technology (IoT) to Monitor Retrofitting in Social Housing At least 15 million homes need to be retrofitted by 2030 to meet 2050 carbon targets. The same homes would need to have further measures installed again after 2030. Doing this would more than triple the UK’s current rate of energy efficiency installations. While the…
How Can IoT Reduce The Risk of Fuel Poverty To Your Tenants? It seems quite ironic that I’m sitting here in sweltering heat in the middle of July as I prepare this blog about fuel poverty and the challenges we face in the current climate and how winter will soon be here to test us…
The Damp “Stats” and Why You Should Read On Nearly 11,000 tenants have claimed compensation for damp, leaks, and damage in their council homes. Local authorities in England have paid out more than £35m in compensation and legal fees. The latest local government budget data shows £1.7bn a year earmarked for maintaining and repairing council…
Are you still using old style unconnected data loggers, and if so, why? The latest generation of “connected” remote data loggers or remote monitoring systems – now usually known as IoT or Internet of Things devices are available from CDL. You can read more about us in Engineering Update Easy to deploy, cost effective and…
CDL recently received two more awards for our Building Information Monitoring Products: For monitoring and controlling the Built Environment the CDL product range includes: 3D Graphical Interfaces RDL//1000 System [now with Hygrostick compatability] Monitor up to 256 sensors per base station within a radius of 500m Temperature Humidity Hygrostick WME Wood Moisture Equivalent [Resistance] CO2…
These exciting new wireless sensors, added to the RDL//1000 range, can simultaneously monitor two Hygrosticks as well as all the normal RDL//1000 readings, and you get the Hygrostick data on-line via the CDL SmartHub. The new wireless hygrostick sensor gives users all the same benefits of the RDL//1000 system, such as dashboards, trending, dynamic charting,…
When it comes to remote monitoring solutions, Caption Data are highly regarded specialists! We were recently tasked with a challenge for one of the most iconic galleries in the world – the Tate Modern! Find out more about how we helped. How Does Remote Monitoring Flooring Help? How does remote monitoring flooring help ensure that…
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