Deconstruction and Design for Disassembly: Analyzing Building Material Salvage and Reuse
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Building construction and demolition waste greatly contribute to the total mass found in landfills. While the traditional linear building model demands new materials for new projects, adopting cyclical models of reclamation and reuse will provide a more resourceful and sustainable future.This thesis proposes designing a building for disassembly by reusing salvaged materials in the Vanier neighbourhood of Ottawa. As the last major area near downtown that has yet to be developed, Vanier is a model that represents places where aging structures provide an opportunity for material evolution among the existing urban fabric, and where land value is beginning to outweigh the value in rehabilitating obsolete buildings situated on it.Utilizing digital workflows, this thesis project will examine deconstructing derelict buildings and structures found on several Vanier properties as the base material palette for designing a new addition to an existing commercial structure with the ability to be methodically disassembled.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it