Successes and Challenges of Two Experienced Canadian Architectural UHPC Precasters
Bibliographic record
Abstract
m3béton and Szolyd Concrete Corp. are two experienced architectural UHPC precasters who will share their insights on the challenges and successes of working with UHPC for over 10 years to create art installations, urban furniture and architectural elements. This presentation illustrates what allowed these innovative firms to become experts in the architectural UHPC field. In particular, unique key projects will be highlighted where many design and fabrication challenges needed to be resolved. Achieving excellent surface aesthetics while using extremely thin sections is often why UHPC is selected for these challenging projects. Surface finish, texture and colour are key elements for these elements and managing expectations is an integral part of the design. Fabrication of these intricate elements is only possible because the precasters have developed specific techniques and a great understanding of UHPC's properties and limits. This presentation will discuss the fundamentals of architectural UHPC and its technical challenges for surface finish, texture and complex shapes. The long-term performance of several completed projects by both architectural precasters after many years of use will be reviewed. The precasters' insights on the successes and challenges for these projects will be explained. Finally, what do these precasters see on the horizon for architectural UHPC?
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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 |
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| 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".