Digital knowledge platform for the sustainable safeguarding of expertise in pipe condition assessment

An infrastructure company is having the condition assessment of a drainage system on a landfill accompanied by a specialized engineering firm. Over many years, extensive experience, assessment criteria, and documented findings on various types of damage have been accumulated. This expertise forms an important basis for a consistent and high-quality assessment of pipe conditions. In order to make the knowledge available in the long term and to best support future assessment processes, a digital knowledge base is to be established. The goal is a digital knowledge platform that makes existing expertise sustainably available, supports collaboration between the infrastructure company and subject matter experts, and promotes a traceable, consistent assessment of pipe conditions in the future. Solution approaches already implemented: - Accompanying the condition assessment of the drainage system by a specialized engineering firm - Accumulation of extensive experience, assessment criteria, and documented findings on various types of damage over several years - Use of historical expert reports, image data, and assessments as the existing knowledge base

The solution should: - capture and organize existing expertise in a structured manner, - make the knowledge easily usable for future assessment processes, - link historical expert reports, image data, and assessments, - provide relevant information and previous comparable cases, - document damage patterns and assessment bases in a structured way, - enable intuitive searching for similar cases and questions, - support knowledge transfer to new specialists, - continuously integrate new findings into the knowledge base, - support collaboration between the involved specialist departments and promote consistent and traceable assessment of pipe conditions. The technological implementation is deliberately open.