What does sustainability mean?

A key issue facing social housing landlords today is how to improve the quality of existing housing stock in a way that is environmentally, socially and economically viable, and sustainable, within the resources available to the landlord.

Energy efficiency and zero net carbon criteria are (as they should be) now at the heart of any sustainability agenda and social housing professionals are fully engaged in pioneering responses to environmental responsibilities alongside their fiscal and social ones, whether it be for new build projects or on-going property maintenance.

With a mature understanding of environmental agendas, organisations are aware of how the sustainability agenda impacts their social housing stock, but does the current approach fully address all of the social/strategic and economic aspects of sustainability?

To date it has been difficult to see sustainability fitting into a joined up environmental, social and economic agenda, when aspects of them tend to be managed as isolated agendas. Also, the meaning of sustainability can be unclear and ill-defined within single organisations as well as across the sector, reducing its impact. This may well be because of the vast range of improvement criteria that need to be considered and assessed holistically during stock investments.

Most critically, how can all the relevant criteria be integrated into a decision-support model that is robust and defendable?

Taking a multi-criterion approach

Two expert solutions - combined

Our solution is unique.

Working with our energy expert partners Sava, we offer our integrated combination of two immensely powerful, best of breed specialist business intelligence products that enables our clients to take a holistic approach to sustainability modelling, fully addressing environmental, social, strategic, and economic factors when optimising the deployment of available resources.

Asprey - AspireBI

AspireBI offers a self-serve Asset Value rationalisation and option appraisal model to enlighten strategic decision making and cement consensus on the levers of asset value across an organisation.

Insights into optimising investments improves effectiveness of management decisions with a reliable central source.

Key to demonstrating sound custodianship and investment/divestment decision making with:

• Financial value calculation from detailed asset level forecasts
• Strategic/social value methodology and scoring down to asset level.

AspireBI offers a consistent, commercially proven methodology and framework for all appraisals and supports building a stronger and sustainable position for your business.

SAVA - Intelligent Energy

Providing insight and improvement planning for zero net carbon Intelligent Energy:

• Calculates energy performance from existing data
• Utilises a data quality indicator for data improvement identification for results confidence
• Offers immense desktop analysis features across whole or segments of stock
• Utilises improvement recommendations within planning functions and set zero net carbon targets
• Simply assesses alternative improvement measures and their cost
• Set and measure carbon targets
• Assess impact on tenant running costs

Intelligent Energy offers exceptional assessments, modelling and planning functions to help you economically achieve energy efficiency and carbon targets.

Delivering self-serve asset value rationalisation and investment option appraisal, with integrated energy and commercial sustainability modelling.

Key to demonstrating sound custodianship and intelligent investment decision-making with demonstrable commitment to social and environmental factors.

Features

• Financial value calculation (NPV) from detailed asset level forecasts
• Strategic value methodology and modelling down to asset level
• Analyse energy data simply, to detailed levels
• Robust financial and strategic evaluation for investment/divestment decisions
• Model New build, Rent Change, Refurbishment, and other scenarios
• Harvests information to determine holistic values and their drivers
• Easy to use, commercially proven solution that simplifies the complex
• Helps turn insights into action and help speed up decision-making
• Offers a consistent methodology and framework for future appraisals
• Available as self-serve or via managed services

Benefits

• Optimise investments & returns
• Enlighten and enhance strategic decision making
• Improve stock performance against multiple factors and objectives
• Build a stronger and sustainable portfolio and business
• Shares and cements asset value consensus across an organisation
• Reduce management effort with sound, prompt shared knowledge
• Minimises subjectivity and identifies investment worthiness, expediting decision-making processes
• Initiates continuous improvement and measurable results of interventions
• Eliminate repeated and expensive third-party appraisal services

Contact us now to learn more: info@aspreysolutions.co.uk