Reports & Risk Analyses

 

What can you expect from a report?

There are certain requirements that apply to every report on drinking water quality or every risk analysis:

The essential components of the drinking water supply in the building or building complex must be recorded and checked to see whether they are present and correctly dimensioned, whether all essential components have been installed correctly, and whether the materials are compatible with both the water and each other.

That sounds simple, but documentation is usually insufficient. If documentation is insufficient, important documents must first be created in sufficient quality.

Plans of the pipe routing are often missing.
However, in order to be able to show the plumber where which components need to be installed correctly, installed at all, adjusted, or replaced – a risk analysis must include measures that lead to a solution to the problem. In the case of reports – errors must be documented in a way that is understandable to non-experts and even non-technicians, and, for example, to provide evidence. For example, to precisely define positions and guide the client/reader to the result in a comprehensible manner, the creation of a plan is usually unavoidable.
Therefore, in some cases, a plan may also be required. The level of detail is decided by the expert or agreed upon with the client.
Branch diagrams are used in optimization reports, especially in larger projects, for faster understanding and are sometimes absolutely necessary for the expert to gain a better overview. They are also often useful for checking the dimensions of existing pipeline networks.

Things get tricky when you can only guess where lines run. That's when things get interesting, and you have to be imaginative and creative in exploiting the possibilities to obtain the necessary information.

Sampling
("More is better" is nonsense. Knowing exactly how is the key word.) A targeted approach is absolutely essential, because sampling methods with a defined effluent volume must, of course, be chosen just as purposefully as the question of the sampling point and the analysis. If you want to find out something, you have to define the question precisely, otherwise you won't get a useful answer.
With heavy metal problems, the temporal component is static. Of course, the ambient temperature and water quality have an influence, but exceeding a limit value at a sampling point after stagnation for x hours is reproducible.
With microbiological problems, several cycles come into play, which living organisms follow, so the timing of sampling is significantly more important, and the accompanying circumstances have a much greater influence. Therefore, the expert should always determine for themselves whether further samples are necessary, how they should be taken, and where. It usually makes no sense to diligently take samples everywhere possible before commissioning an expert report or a risk analysis.
All samples must be evaluated in a report, even if it means unfortunately having to explain why they can't be evaluated, or why 32 samples could have been avoided and two would have been sufficient. Therefore, it is also important that the expert receives all test reports (and possibly sampling protocols).

A report is always a document tailored to a specific object. Pages of general principles don't belong there, because important facts can be immediately and specifically related to the case.

A report is a text document, not a "checklist." If you want to present results clearly or facts for better understanding, tables, diagrams, drawings, and photos are useful.

You can expect our reports to be understood by the client or the target person. We, too, may occasionally express ourselves unclearly or use terms that we haven't explained. However, such passages are noted by the client, and we rewrite them until everyone involved understands what is meant. We usually manage to simplify complicated issues and, of course, we wait. with the necessary expertise to solve problems.

However, since communication gaps can often still exist, for example, between the plumbing company and the client, and some projects require a "step-by-step" approach, we support the client until the problem is completely resolved.