Buffalo Pound Non-Potable Water Supply System Regina Regional Pipeline
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Buffalo Pound Non-Potable Water Supply System (BPNPWSS)–Regina Regional will supply non-potable water from Buffalo Pound Lake to industrial customers around Regina. The Regina Regional System is an extension of the existing BPNPWSS–East that currently supplies non-potable water to industrial customers in the Belle Plaine corridor. The planning of the pipeline began with utilizing GIS to show existing constraints. Once the route was chosen, hydraulic analysis was completed to determine the required pressure rating and diameter of the pipe to deliver the required water to the end users. The design of the pipeline took a unique and alternative delivery approach. The design of the pipeline was completed to 80% without a specified pipe type for procurement. A Request for Supplier Qualifications (RFSQ) pre-qualified three contractors to submit a proposal to complete the work. The proposals included the contractor’s proposed pipeline material for each section meeting the specified criteria, work plan and schedule, additional details on their previous experience, and their proposal price. Once the pipe types were chosen, the design was completed with the selected contractor’s input and construction began in May 2023. This paper will provide an overview of the planning and design process determining the pipeline route utilizing GIS, to 80% design of the pipeline, and finally to obtaining a qualified contractor and completing the design and construction. We will also discuss the challenges and benefits that this approach brought on.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.042 | 0.010 |
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".