Real Estate & Property Awards 2019

13 2019 Real Estate & Property Awards BUILD BUILD 2019 Real Estate & Property Awards 12 Sep19404 Safecility Most Innovative International Housing Safety Firm 2019: For housing authorities today, safety is one of the most important aspects to any building. Innovative Irish firm Safecility are leveraging technology to help make reporting on safety tests even easier and cheaper for landlords and housing authorities. Find out more about their vital work as we profile the firm, following their inclusion in BUILD’s Real Estate & Property Awards. ollowing the horrific events at Grenfell Tower, fire safety, emergency lighting, and high levels of compliance are even more of a necessity than they have ever been for housing authorities and social landlords. As the sector examines whether or not the fire safety practices were fit for the twenty-first century, Safecility are already taking steps to improve testing and handle complex compliance management services for all manner of clients. Safecility automates fire safety testing in buildings for estate owners and streams compliance data estate-wide to their SaaS application. Leveraging automation technology, the firm also eliminates up to 90% of manual testing visits for emergency lighting by automating the testing using a dedicated smart sensor. Working alongside housing authorities, local councils, sports stadiums, and other large distributed estates, the company’s extensive experience is focused on client needs to maintain high levels of compliance. Because of their need to physically visit sites and inspect every element of fire safety systems, clients can often incur large costs. Safecility helps clients to automate the process, reducing their testing visits substantially whilst improving the quality of data, observation and responsiveness to compliance issues. As regulations become tighter following more revelations surrounding the tragedy at Grenfell, this firm’s experience has made them a key partner for the sector as it seeks to address growing compliance challenges. F At a time where technology is advancing more rapidly than almost any other industry, Safecility are seeking to use it to cultivate a future where buildings report on themselves. In the future, the firm believe that technology should make it possible to fully automate legally required safety testing in buildings and network technology should make it possible to stream all this data for estate owners and regulators. Having designed a system that seamlessly integrates with existing systems, both clients and partners can upgrade their system and onboard devices quickly with Safecility. The firm use smart IoT sensors to automate testing, and robust wireless networks such as NBIOT to stream to their cloud-based platform. Most importantly, throughout the whole process, Safecility listen to their clients. The product is established around their compliance and safety needs, so helping them leapfrog major issues is key to them meeting significant developmental milestones towards digital transformation and automated building compliance. What sets the firm apart is their drive, determination, attention to detail, and technical proficiency in bringing 21st century solutions to 20th century problems. Safecility Website: https://www.safecility.com/ Contact: Cian O Flaherty The industry does not come without significant challenges, however. Ireland is undergoing a housing crisis, with affordability and homelessness crushing the opportunities for younger people to get on the housing ladder. The ever-looming shadow of Brexit is also hanging over the sector, as uncertainty around economic fortunes will fare following a potential no-deal is rife. That same level of economic uncertainty also affects clients such as social landlords, who are at risk of returning to austerity or massive cuts in the wake of Brexit. From turning an idea into a prototype and bringing it to market within a year, the success of Safecility cannot be overstated. Nor can the importance of their work, determined to do their bit in finding a solution to one of the worst residential fire tragedies to hit the United Kingdom in recent memory. Committed to sustainable solutions that automate data observation and uphold rigorous compliance standards, this firm’s work is massively valuable to the industry, and will be for years to come as they continue to develop.