Weaver Vale Housing Trust chose Grafton as its new partner using the Buildbase brand to provide a more effective repairs service for customers in West Cheshire.
The partnership has seen the opening of a new dedicated stores facility at Northwich Buildbase in Wincham, which manages the supply of all materials to the trust’s property services teams.
By obtaining all materials directly from Buildbase, the trust’s 115 repairs and maintenance trade staff will save time and money sourcing materials, enabling them to provide an improved service to residents. The new facility also employs three dedicated Buildbase stores personnel whose role is solely to assist trust staff.
Graham Roberts, director of Property Services at Weaver Vale Housing Trust, said: “The trust is delighted to open its new on-site stores at Buildbase. The new facility will enable us to provide our customers with a fast, high quality, and more cost efficient repairs and maintenance service.
“The new service will also benefit the commercial, public sector and private individual customers of our subsidiary building company, Weaver Horizons."
“Over a four year period £464k will be generated overall in savings through using Buildbase. This justifies the changes that have been made and does not take into account any further savings that will be demonstrated through the future value for money review process that has been introduced."
“We chose Buildbase as our preferred stores partner and they have delivered savings and improved the efficiency both in the field and in the back office. We have been delighted with the ‘can-do’ attitude of the Buildbase team which allows our managers to manage our workforce whilst Buildbase manage our materials supply chain, resulting in enhanced, top class service for our customers.”
Graham Roberts, director of Property Services at Weaver Vale Housing Trust