Conceptual Design, Detailed Design, and Construction of the Terwillegar Park Stressed Ribbon Footbridge
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p>In January 2013, the City of Edmonton called for proposals for a new 300 m footbridge across the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Consultants were challenged to develop concepts that were innovative, fit the context of the deep natural river valley, and meet strict budgetary and schedule requirements. In October 2016, the longest and first multi-span stressed ribbon bridge in Canada was opened to the public. The Terwillegar Park Footbridge was designed by Stantec Consulting Ltd for the City of Edmonton and forms a key link in the river valley park system in that city. Stressed ribbon bridges can be described as precast concrete structures that are erected segmentally on cables and post-tensioned to achieve a continuous, slender, prestressed concrete structure. In this paper, the conceptual and preliminary design process of the Terwillegar Park Footbridge is described and challenges encountered in the design and construction of this elegant and innovative structure are shared.</p>
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".