In this segment of the video, the speakers discuss the role of audit trails in construction and engineering projects. Speaker A emphasizes that robust audit trails are crucial for demonstrating compliance with health and safety standards, quality assurance, and engineering assurance, serving as proof that a project was built safely and to specification. Speaker B acknowledges this, after which Speaker A points out that while audits provide essential evidence, their value is limited if they are not leveraged beyond mere compliance documentation.
reasons it's been done for either health and safety, for quality assurance, for engineering assurance, it's been very important to have an audit, a robust audit trail.
Yeah.
That shows we built this thing safely, we built it to the required quality and specification, and you've got that. But that has a limited value, doesn't it?
But heat map that to a, to a BIM model or an asset management tool or a commercial tool, and you can really leverage some lessons learned. And, you know, 1 1 is not 2. And so I think that would be one of my other so top 3 things. So we've got the elevation of it beyond just the evidential record and into something that's prospectively useful. We've got the integration with other data from other sources that is becoming, you know, absolutely day-to-day what people do now. So integrating that data with things like contract management tools, asset management tools. And then secondly, I think just from convenience, and we said that might speak to acting as stated in the contract. Just having that at your fingertips, but also being able to orientate it. So one data set orientated many ways. So here's the report that's useful to the cost controller, here's
