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Dynamic System for Prioritizing and Accelerating Inspections to Support Capital Renewal of Buildings

2013· article· en· W2004267184 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Computing in Civil Engineering · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicFacilities and Workplace Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScheduleVisual inspectionServiceability (structure)Software inspectionEngineeringRisk analysis (engineering)Computer scienceConstruction engineeringCivil engineeringBusinessSoftware

Abstract

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Maintaining the serviceability of a large number of buildings is a huge challenge that requires a perpetual cycle of inspections and capital renewal actions. Inspection, however, is subjective, costly, and time-consuming. To substantially reduce inspection effort, this research proposes a dynamic inspection-priority system (DIPS) that analyzes recent records of reactive-maintenance data, which is often not utilized for capital renewal, to establish a condition prediction mechanism for most building components without inspection. DIPS also incorporates procedures to prioritize and schedule key inspection tasks in addition to a tablet application designed to allow all-on-site visual inspection by marking on two-dimensional (2D) digital plans. A prototype system of DIPS has been developed and tested using the data of 88 schools in Canada and proved its usefulness as an efficient approach to improve the internal inspection practices of organizations that own a large number of buildings. This research contributes to integrating the maintenance and capital renewal functions, introducing a simple visual approach to inspection, saving inspection time and cost, and ultimately improving the economics of the multibillion-dollar business of capital renewal.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.220
Threshold uncertainty score0.441

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it