Energy use metrics for Canada’s housing code
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The reference-building performance compliance path in building energy codes does not account for the benefits of energy-efficient architectural forms, as both the proposed building and its equivalent reference building have the same geometry. In 2022, the Canadian Board for Harmonized Construction Codes established a task group for developing an alternate performance compliance path based on energy use intensity in Canada’s National Building Code (NBC). In support of the task group, this paper developed a methodology for determining energy performance targets that align with the reference-building targets of the NBC. It then evaluated potential design outcomes associated with the proposed energy use targets using Canadian housing archetypes as well as a set of real-world case studies, expecting that houses with energy-efficient forms will show a better energy performance under the proposed energy use targets. The proposed energy use targets are generally in good agreement with the British Columbia Energy Step Code.
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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 |
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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 it