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===Attendance===
Auckland City Council: 
* Patrick Cummuskey

University of Auckland: 
* Gerald Weber (CS)
* Cristof Lutteroth (CS)
* Jason Ingham (Civil)

Software Engineering Students: 
* Shaun Seo
* Nick Irvine

Civil Engineering Students: 
* Russell
* Matt
* Allister? (PHD student)

Apologies by Mark Gardiner (SE)

=Things discussed=
==Background==
New legislation requiring compliance. Preliminary stages of compliance completed by Patrick.
 
2 screenings of buildings, to carry out an accurate assessment of a building's strength: 
* 1st: preliminary, basic
* 2nd: If a building fails the first assessment, a second more comprehensive(advanced) survey is carried out.
 
*This process is currently all manual and there is no infrastructure to support it. It needs to be supported to reduce cost and time taken.
 
 
==Aims==
* Application that can:
** Store all the data relevant to an assessment of a buildings strength/susceptibility to damage in an earthquake
** analyze the data to determine if a building passes the first screening
** Generate reports from the data that satisfy all the necessary requirements and standards, in a printable and easily storable/transferable format
 
 
==Requirements==
* Data stored should be easily exchangeable with other systems
 
 
==Current process==
* Surveys carried out manually
* Advanced survey/calculations done by hand and on paper
* Paper copy report generated and stored
 
 
==Constraints==
* Privacy concerns
** The general public should not be able to access all data about buildings. This is to prevent situations where a building is identified as earthquake prone and this leads to a drop in value/rental incomes and possible repercussions to the council.
 
* Scalability
** Scalable to all NZ councils, and nationally
** Current ~4,500 buildings have been surveyed. Small amount of text and 0 -> a few photos. This is approx 6GB of data. ~1,500 buildings are likely to need more comprehensive survey. ~20 photos + plans + reports per building hence large size of data set.
 
 
==Possible future goals==
* Make the system available to other councils in NZ
* Combine the databases to develop a national database
* Interoperability with existing/new council systems
* Integration with GIS or other systems
 
 
==Users==
Envisioned 3 types of end users: 
* Property owners - can view details about their properties
* Council officers - Process and use data stored in the system e.g to approve plans
* Academics, Govt., emergency services - Make high level analysis/plans using the information available and the reports generated

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