Housing providers in Aberdeen can now benefit from a new one-stop-shop building and
maintenance hub designed to help them navigate the demands and challenges of supplying safe
and quality social housing to local residents.
Recently launched by Jewson Partnership Solutions (JPS), the AVAIL Housing Hub will bring
together a host of benefits, including material supply, stock management technology, waste
disposal and expert training. The offering is designed to tackle the many challenges of modern
social housing, including changing legislation, health and safety, rising costs, and decarbonisation
regulations. Having opened Housing Hubs in Leeds and Newcastle last year, for the first time JPS has
launched a dual service site, with customers in Aberdeen also able to access a George Boyd concept branch.
A wealth of products for construction, maintenance and repairs will be made available to
customers via the hub’s large external yard and warehouse, and JPS will apply its automated
replenishment technology to ensure levels of stock – which are specifically selected to support
social landlords with their key challenges – are always maintained.
The George Boyd concept branch will provide plumbing and heating stock, electrical assortment,
and a kitchen and bathroom range tailored to public sector building requirements, so operatives
can purchase all the materials required for whole house solutions. The branch will offer customers
a click and collect facility, for speedy access to products.
Aberdeen is Scotland’s third largest city and almost a quarter of its dwellings are socially rented
either via housing associations or the local authority. Aberdeenshire, a neighbouring council area,
has around 15% of its homes classed as social housing meaning that across the region there are in
excess of 40,000 homes that could benefit from the Housing Hub’s offering.
Scott Cooper, Managing Director of JPS and George Boyd, said: “When we were considering the
location for our next AVAIL Housing Hub, we wanted to choose an area with a comparatively high
percentage of social housing, and where we knew we could make a true difference.
“JPS already has a strong foothold in Scotland, as the leading supplier of materials for repairs in
social housing in Edinburgh, Stirling, Dumfries and Dumbarton. We also already partner with a
number of housing providers in Aberdeen, but we know the Housing Hub will enable us to do so
much more for the city, so it made sense to for our next opening to be here.
“The hub, and its multiple benefits – which are making a huge difference in cities like Leeds and
Newcastle where Housing Hubs are fully established – will arm operatives working on social
properties with innovative products, at a great price point to help elevate the living conditions of
the region’s residents. With the addition of our George Boyd concept branch at the same site, customers will be able to make big efficiencies in their purchasing of materials and take advantage of the advice of our expert team about a wealth of different projects.
“Housing associations are feeling more pressure than ever before to provide better housing for less
while simultaneously raising the standards of their properties. In Aberdeen, the AVAIL Housing Hub
enables us to act as a supply partner that can help them deliver on their objectives for the people
who need it most.”
The Aberdeen AVAIL Housing Hub is now open. For more information, please visit
www.jewsonpartnershipsolutions.com
