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New Gorbals Housing Association make savings on utilities
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Scottish Housing News
Glasgow-based New Gorbals Housing Association has cut its costs by working with a leading utility management consultancy Audits Unlimited for the past two years.
Audits Unlimited was originally engaged when the association took over management of housing stock from Scottish Homes. New Gorbals owns 1,150 socially rented units that consist of high rise, maisonettes and new build properties and further manages the factoring service for 1300 owners. The consultancy helped the organisation prepare a tender for gas and electricity supplies.
Since then, Audits has been retained to monitor the association?s utility usage and bills. They also manage the telecoms and water costs for NGHA. Over the period of the last two years, Audits has identified savings of over £50,000 for gas, electricity and telecoms costs.
Using a consultancy has also saved considerable administration time and reduced administration costs. Over 800 bills a year were processed by the association for gas and electricity supplies. Audits Unlimited have now consolidated this into a single bill per month which is much easier to manage and frees up the time of the association?s staff.
Audits unlimited plan to start soon on a new project to help NGHA to reduce their energy consumption and their carbon emissions. That will further reduce their energy costs and help the environment.
Mary Reilly, Finance Manager, New Gorbals, said: "Audits Unlimited has provided an invaluable service in not only helping us put out tenders for utility supplies but also constantly keeping an eye on energy usage and costs, sorting out any queries with suppliers quickly and efficiently."
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