Okanagan College Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The Centre of Excellence at Okanagan College in Penticton, British Columbia is being designed as one of the most innovative and sustainable post-secondary facilities in the world. On schedule for design and construction to be complete by April 2011, the two-storey multi-purpose facility has a mandate to provide trades and technology training and professional development to students from the province of British Columbia and beyond. It is aimed at attaining the highest standard of sustainable building design, the Living Building Challenge. The building will support a syllabus with a focus on the design, installation, and support of sustainable building technologies and processes, and the development and application of alternative and renewable energy. The building itself will become an essential element of the educational programs that will reside there, a teaching tool for education on building trades and engineering technologies. In addition, the Okanagan Research Innovation Centre will be incorporated into the building, providing opportunities for start-up companies to develop and prototype new green technologies in a supportive and synergistic environment. This article will demonstrate that a project with this level of sustainable objectives is achievable at a cost comparable to conventional building design. It will address how this can be attained through an integrated design process, along with the numerous innovative features that have been incorporated into the building design to help it function with a small environmental impact, and a large educational one.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.074 | 0.012 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".