Monthly theme - August 2025 - Housing
Throughout the UK, the housing sector stands at a crossroads of three urgent challenges: decarbonisation, demographic change, and deteriorating infrastructure. Meeting these demands requires more than traditional approaches - it calls for smarter, data-driven solutions.
Throughout August we'll be exploring how data and AI technologies can be used to ensure that housing of the future is not only more sustainable, but is also safer, more inclusive and more responsive to the needs of tenants.
Fresh off the press 🗞️
This month our very own Flo Millar has been speaking to friends and partners of The Data Lab about some of the housing innovations currently taking place in Scotland. Read the full blog for more on what organisations like Wheatley Group, Albyn Homes, Blackwood Homes and BE-ST are doing to drive-forward vital transformation in the sector.
🔗 Smart, Sustainable and Safe: How Data & AI are Transforming Housing
Events 🎟️
As part of our activities throughout the month, we're hosting and supporting a number of events related to our theme. Make sure to register for the events you'd like to attend via the links below!
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Homes of the Future: Data, AI and the Built Environment - 5 August 2025 17:30 - 19:30 BST [Glasgow, UK]
Join us as we bring together leading voices from across Scotland’s housing and build environment ecosystem to explore how data & AI can help us build for the future. From predictive maintenance, energy optimisation and environmental quality monitoring, to urban modelling, automated compliance checks, and fair housing enforcement, there is lots of potential for these technologies to make an impact.
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Data-driven Housing Solutions for Safer Living - 28 August 2025 12:00 - 12:45 BST [Online]
Within the housing sector, data & AI technologies have created opportunities to support tenants to live safely in their homes. Join us for an insightful session with Albyn Housing Society, a mainstream housing provider based in the Scottish Highlands. We’ll explore how Albyn is pioneering the use of ambient technology and data driven solutions in their homes.
Upcoming themes 📆
Here's a reminder of what we have coming up for the rest of 2025!
- August - Housing 🏡
- September - Financial Sector 🏦
- October - Health 🏥
- November - Data Visualisation 📊
- December – Reflecting on 2025 💭
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