Life cycle assessment improvements of Frederic Lasserre building at University of British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Previous cradle to gate life cycle assessment work on the Frederic Lasserre building of UBC was restructured and improved. This study took the previous Lasserre Impact Estimator model, reorganized the buildings construction to CIQS format, thoroughly inspected the previous model for material, property type, and geometric flaws, carried out improvement strategies regnerated the IE model with results, and finally developed a campus wide benchmark for comparative assertion. From life cycle stage results it was clearly demonstrated that the product stage weighs heavily on impact for a cradle to gate analysis. From a CIQS elemental standpoint A22-Upper Floor Construction, A32-Walls above Grade and B11-Partitions are noted as hotspots in the Lasserre building contributing the majority of the seven impact categories assessed. The Lasserre building in comparison to the developed benchmark performed below average as a whole and had particularly weak performance in elements B11-Interior Partitions and A32-Walls above Grade. Global warming potential was determined to be the most salient impact from class aversion survey results. This led to a GWP versus construction cost (2013 $). In this comparison it was found that older UBC buildings tended to perform better than newer ones. The results and recommendations from the study and all others in the collective project aid towards the operation of LCA methods in practice at UBC. Useful for the Universities sustainability ambitions and targets, the study has also provided students with the applicable hands on experience at tackling the expanse nature of a building LCA. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".