London housing association installs Liverpool firm’s life-saving tech
An Islington housing association is installing life-saving gas safety technology created by a Liverpool company in its 295 London homes.
Barnsbury Housing Association has partnered with award-winning RegTech company Gas Tag to protect its tenants.
Annual gas safety checks are a legal requirement for all landlords.
However, Barnsbury Housing Association’s processes were ‘paper heavy’ and information was locally stored, making compliance monitoring resource intensive.
Gas Tag works by keeping a geo-tagged, time-stamped and photo-verified record of all work carried out on a gas appliance.
All the information is uploaded to a centralised portal and the Gas Safe Registered engineer verification feature prevents unregistered gas fitters from recording any work through the system.
Susan French, chief executive of Barnsbury Housing Association, said: “We are a small housing association and Gas Tag offers us the solution we were looking for to help us to operate more efficiently and to manage compliance effectively.
“The software greatly improves our asset information because it keeps a track of the paper trail for annual gas certificates, including access attempts, replacement boilers and new appliances in our homes.
“It’s an extremely practical way for us, as a small association, to bring in new technology and we are delighted that it is being rolled out to our 295 homes.”
All of the Housing Association’s 295 homes will be fitted with the technology, heralded as “the most significant quantum leap in domestic gas safety compliance in 20 years” by Barry Sheerman MP, the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Carbon Monoxide.
Stephen Ullathorne, co-founder and chief executive of Gas Tag, said: “We are excited to be working with Barnsbury.
“They are a forward-thinking housing association that clearly puts tenant safety at the heart of what they do.
“Our technology is an industry first and gives real-time data to monitor life-saving gas safety checks.”
