Project management and data quality control

The Building Sustainability Index (BASIX) is a government initiative at the New South Wales (NSW) Australia to assess the potential performance of new homes against a range of sustainability indices. Over the past 5 years, BASIX has grown into one of the largest environmental sustainability projects in the world and all the houses built and renovated since 2004 have to comply with the BASIX requirement. As a, a large amount of data has been collected and the data sets are grown at a daily basis. Data quality monitoring (DQM), control and the development of a standard for data quality metrics have become a business-critical issue.. In this paper, the authors, based on the BASIX development experience accumulated over the past 6 years, look into the issue of data management, data quality control and recent work carried out at the NSW Department of Planning.