Abstract

The minister of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment has requested the RIVM to publish an annual Environmental Balance and an Environmental Outlook to appear every four years. To guarantee the quality of these publications, a professional quality controlled information infrastructure is developed at RIVM, which integrates monitoring networks, databases, models and administrative procedures in the environmental laboratoria of the institute. This report presents the results of the analysis and design phases of the infrastructure development project. The design is summarized in 29 units, covering data management, modelling, hard- and software, quality management and organisation. The design phase was officially concluded at the end of 1993. At that point in time, the process of design and construction had been initiated throughout the institute. A number of follow up projects have been started in January 1994.