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Information management

BRE-SLAM uses a four volume filing for information management. This system ensures that only "live" information is transferred between phases of a construction project, but that the archived information is available for future reference. This minimises the information burden transferred between a design team and the construction team, and between the construction team and the occupiers.

For example, there may be initial concerns over the level of sulfates in the ground. Following testing this concern is eliminated and the materials for effective concrete foundations specified. This information remains "live" and is transferred to the Construction Assessment File, but the ground conditions, testing and other information are retained in an archive file for future reference by the design team. This information may be useful if a future construction project identifies similar concerns over ground conditions. Archived information can be used to estimate, for example, how many samples are needed, how much the analysis will cost, which standards apply and so on.