Hcond - condition survey software

1 Introduction to Hcond

Hcond has been designed to help RSLs carry out stock condition surveys and produce both short and long-term plans for the maintenance and repair of their housing stock. The programme is easy to learn and operate; anyone who understands the Windows environment should be up and running in a couple of hours. Unlike some databases the information is easy to manipulate and/or modify. The data output prints straight to a printer or can be 'dumped' to word processing or spreadsheet packages. The package can easily be customised to suit the specific needs of the user. In designing the software our over-riding principle was to keep the programme as simple as possible while, at the same time, providing a useful, comprehensive tool for handling condition survey data.

Hcond allows an association to:

make long term forecasts of its elemental future repair and renewals
establish and implement short and medium planned programmes of repair
identify properties with specific attributes
provides data to enable associations to establish trends over time
produce quick and comprehensive reports on its stock - and view pictures, scans etc.
monitor its dwellings with regard to the requirements of the Decent Homes Standard
establish which houses are non decent
establish why they are non-decent
record the costs of making them decent.

The development of this software has been supported by The Housing Corporation through a number of Innovation and Good Practice Grants.