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White Paper on Protecting and Managing Void Properties
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ASSA, PART OF ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions, a UK division of ASSA ABLOY, the global leader in door opening solutions, has released a white paper guide outlining the issues faced by councils and housing associations when managing void properties.
Entitled‘ How do you protect void properties?’ the guide is available for download at www. assa. co. uk / cliqremotevoidwhitepaper.
According to the Department for Communities and Local Government, around 610,000 housing association or local authority-owned homes are
empty – approximately one eighth of the UK’ s stock of five million.
With crimes against such properties increasing, the
white paper outlines the main security threats to void properties, which include theft, arson, vandalism, flytipping and squatting. It then explores the issues around management of access to void properties when carrying out maintenance work, which include sharing of keys, lost keys and money wasted. Finally, the paper outlines how the use of ASSA CLIQ ® Remote as an effective key management system results in huge benefits, helping to ward off security threats and allowing more effective and streamlined management of maintenance workers, saving time and money.
EVVA joins SBD‘ family’
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AUSTRIAN LOCKING TECHNOLOGY specialist, EVVA has joined Secured by Design( SBD), the UK’ s police crime prevention initiative, which seeks to improve building security to reduce crime. SBD has accredited six of the company’ s Euro Profile cylinder locks – all BSI Kitemark certified: 3KSplus, EPS and MCS.
SBD Development Officer Doug Skins said:“ We are pleased that this innovative company is joining the SBD family with their products and we are looking forward to working with them.”
Doug Skins presented Heiner Dolinar, EVVA Vice President Products, with their SBD certificate at a ceremony at the company’ s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday, 13 June.“ SBD has
‘ an important part of our strategy for further growth in the UK market’
worked on crime prevention in the UK for nearly 30 years with great success”, said Heiner.
“ Being part of SBD is an important part of our strategy for further growth in the UK market.”
Andy Lewis, EVVA Commercial Brand Manager for Aldridge Security added:“ Now having SBD on EVVA products allows us to offer the complete solution. EVVA is now one of the only Cylinder Manufacturers in the UK to offer a restricted patented Cylinder achieving TS007 1 *, 3 * and now Secure By Design.”
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