The way we use informatic system
Basically, computers are working with 0 and 1, (meaning : to be or not to be). It’s possible to call it a black and white system. It’s very difficult to record a complex phenomena with a black and white system because it’s more or less impossible to record a progressive change of situation.
But if you look at what our work is, you can see that :
- We make consolidation in some parts
- We fill some other parts
We have 2 types of surfaces:
1) a surface where a consolidation is applied
2) a surface where a consolidation is not applied
In some kind of way, we are coming back to a black and white system
We use digital documentation not to record phenomena but to discriminate surfaces, which is a completely different vision.
When you prepare a project you need to find an answer to some questions. The use of digital documentation depend on some questions, for example:
If the question is “Where are the cracks ?”: I take a photo, I take my red pen, I make a line, put everything in my scanner, print, then the document is ready for the report in 5 minutes.
But if the question is “Howlong does it take to fill the cracks ?” it’s very different because, to find an answer, you need : to have the length of the crack, the position on the surface and the position on the process. What you need in fact is to understand how to manage the cracks.
we use digital documentation for :
The discrimination of the surfaces
The management of the informations recorded