Sheffield City Council has awarded an £11.6 million residential fire safety upgrade programme to Harmony Fire, as it seeks to fast-track upgrade and modernisation improvements across its general needs housing stock. The two-year contract, which has the option for an additional two years’ extension, sees national fire safety specialist Harmony Fire undertake fire door replacement […]
Matt Ford, Head of Mechanical & Electrical at Harmony Fire A question recently posed to me by a social housing executive was perfectly simple, and of course completely implausible given existing statutory regulations, but I played along anyway. ‘If you could invest in just one fire safety system to protect residents, what would that be?’ […]
Ged Moore, Managing Director at Auro by Harmony While many would argue that the pace of technology adoption in the social housing sector remains lamentably slow, the rise and prominence of data analyst and chief technology officer (CTO) roles in housing organisations reveals a different reality. As a housing leader recently remarked to me, data […]
What have we learned from the recently published minutes of the 2 April final session of the Ministerial Working Group (MWG) on Building and Fire Safety arising from the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2? The 26 participants reinforced Scotland’s acceptance of the Grenfell Inquiry’s recommendations and the plans for implementation through cross-sector collaboration. This is a […]
In a heavily trailed Spending Review for the housing sector, there were no surprises this afternoon for housing leaders already expressing positive sentiments on an eye-catching £39bn Affordable Homes Programme – injecting £1.4bn of additional funding into house building annually. There was also confirmation of a 10-year rent settlement for social housing that will be […]