"A risk assessment of the Piql Services" by FFI

Type of storage facility piqlVault in office or industrial building

Location

Placement Size

Operations

Storage conditions

In a city, a well- populated area.

Placed in a basement or lower floors.

86 m². Holds 20.000 piqlBoxes

Automated handling and storage of the piqlFilms in the piqlVault. Machinery, special components of the

With power supply: 21°C, 50 % RH (ISO 18911:2010). Without power supply: Differs between geographical zones.

or 2.240 terabyte (TB).

Placed in the upper floors.

system and personnel.

Table 5.4 The location and layout of the storage facilities used in the scenario development

The storage facility used for analysis in this assessment is placed in one location: in an office or industrial building, depending on the user’s needs, which is situated in a densely populated urban area. The choice of this location reflects the needs and circumstances of the user base of the Piql Preservation Services, which is mainly commercial. 6 Further, we have specified two possible placements of the storage room within the building: whether it is placed in the basement or on the lower floors of the building, or higher up on the upper floors. This has significance for different types of risks the storage room is exposed to. For instance, a storage room placed in a basement or in the lower floors of a building would be less vulnerable to shakes in case of an earthquake, but more likely to suffer heavy losses in case of a flood. Conversely, the storage room placed in the upper floors would be less vulnerable in case of flood, but more likely to be harmed by an earthquake. We have defined a standard size for the storage room within which the piqlVault is placed that applies to all scenarios. The room has a surface area of 86 m², with a width of 8,0 meters and a depth of 10,7 meters. The height is 7,5 meters. The ideal storage conditions for the piqlBox and piqlFilm in order to guarantee the longevity of 500 years is 21° Celsius and 50 % relative humidity to avoid condensation [27, 28]. 7 This is in accordance with ISO standard 18911:2010, according to which longevity testing has been done in earlier R&D projects. The automated storage system used in the piqlVaults is also compliant with these regulations. For the sake of continuity, it will also serve as the baseline storage conditions from which the scenarios are developed.

6 It should be noted that users who wish to store and preserve more sensitive, or in other ways particularly valuable information, understandably may not view a regular office building as providing sufficient safety and security. These users can instead place the piqlVault in a mountain repository. More on this is chapter 10. 7 More specifically, the stipulation is to maintain a temperature in the range of 4 – 21°C and a relative humidity in the range 20 – 50 %.

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