MECHENG401:Meetings:Initial
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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