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Record W2058443332 · doi:10.1139/l08-018

Initial metrics and pilot program results for measuring the performance of the Canadian construction industry

2008· article· en· W2058443332 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Civil Engineering · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicConstruction Project Management and Performance
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec en OutaouaisCouncil of Canadians with DisabilitiesUniversity of AlbertaCanadian Natural ResourcesUniversity of WaterlooInternational Council for Canadian StudiesUniversity of New Brunswick
FundersMinistero dello Sviluppo Economico
KeywordsBenchmarkingScope (computer science)Quality (philosophy)SustainabilityPresentation (obstetrics)Data collectionEngineeringEngineering managementPerformance measurementConstruction managementPerformance indicatorProcess managementTransport engineeringComputer scienceBusinessCivil engineeringMarketing

Abstract

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A study has been initiated by the Canadian Construction Innovation Council to support the measurement of the performance of the Canadian construction industry. Metrics have been established to cover aspects of cost, time, scope, quality, safety, innovation, and sustainability. The metrics were piloted with industry partners and applied to institutional building and infrastructure projects. The metrics were selected in recognition of other national and international efforts in benchmarking and with a view of supporting analysis at the project, organization, and industry level. The experience gained through the pilot project indicates that the metrics are reasonably well understood in their definition. While the cost, time, scope, and safety information is readily available, as expected, the information for quality innovation and sustainability is not or requires more detailed in-person interviews of project participants to obtain a complete picture of project performance. The data analysis and presentation conducted to date indicates that a combination of radar charts and box plots works best as a means to communicate results. The result of the study to date is a standard set of metrics, and collection and reporting methods for the performance of the Canadian construction industry that are useful as the basis of a broad benchmarking program.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.614
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
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 head0.099
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.188 · 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