Translations:BSH Konzernarchiv/13/en

Using this information as a basis for calculation, the infrastructure for the new corporate archive was defined. This consisted of an office room for preparation and indexing plus a professional archive storeroom. A suitable archiving office was quickly found, but locating an appropriate site for the archive storeroom took longer. Because it had a large water pipe running through it, the first room suggested by BSH Facility Management was considered to be out of the question – a burst pipe could have endangered the entire archive. Facility Management, however, then came up with several ideas about how this room could possibly be made safe for storage of archiving material. The most interesting of these was a “room in room” concept in which the archive would be set up in a self-contained space within the original room. Because this planning uncertainty went on for around six months, the first archive material had to be temporarily stored in the office room. When Facility Management was asked once again if they could possibly find more suitable premises for an archive storeroom, they suddenly “discovered” an almost ideal location directly below the one they had first suggested. Now it was finally possible to order the mobile rack system, which went into operation around Easter time in 2015. It had been clear from the very beginning that professional archiving software would be needed.