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Record W605314048

Designing a Difference: How to Win the Design/Build Game

2006· article· en· W605314048 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Peter G. Buckland

Bibliographic record

VenueBridge design & engineering · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicStructural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBridge (graph theory)BiddingGeneral partnershipDesign–buildEngineeringCivil engineeringArchitectural engineeringConstruction engineeringTransport engineeringEngineering managementManagementBusinessPolitical scienceMarketingEconomicsLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Buckland and Taylor have been extremely successful recently in winning design/build competitions that the company enters. This article discusses the original guidelines for several of the bidding projects, the considerations a design/build construction team would need to address and a description of the winning designs. All the winning teams that Buckland and Taylor were one designed the project in partnership with the contractor or developer. Some of the construction projects mention include: Golden Ears Bridge near Vancouver, the Fort Nelson River Bridge in British Columbia, and the Arthur Ravanel Bridge over the Cooper River in Charleston, where Buckland and Taylor was a subcontractor.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score0.087

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.007
Scholarly communication0.0100.010
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0260.010

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.196
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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".

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Published2006
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