Quebec Construction Code, Chapter I: Building, and National Building Code of Canada 2015 (amended)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This document, published by the National Research Council of Canada in collaboration with the Régie du bâtiment du Québec, contains both the new edition of Chapter I, Building, of the Quebec Construction Code and an amended version of the National Building Code of Canada 2015 that clearly indicates the changes adopted by Quebec. With its user-friendly format, the document is an essential resource for designers, contractors, owner-builders and regulatory officials in Quebec. The document sets out technical requirements for all construction work on buildings and facilities intended for use by the public in Quebec. Numerous updates have been incorporated in this edition to improve the level of health, safety, accessibility, fire and structural protection, energy efficiency and water-use efficiency provided by buildings and facilities. Significant updates include: • design requirements for barrier-free bathtubs and showers have been revised to enhance safety and accessibility • the integrity of fire separations has been improved to reduce the risk of fire spread • Fire alarm and detection systems have been improved to facilitate the safe and timely evacuation of building occupants • the apparent sound transmission class (ASTC) has been introduced to enhance the sound isolation between dwelling units • provisions for wind, snow and ice loads have been updated, increasing the climate resilience of buildings • minimum distances of outdoor air intakes from sources of contaminants have been specified to improve indoor air quality for the safety of building occupants • design requirements for stairs, ramps, handrails and guards have been updated to reduce the risk of falls
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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 | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.131 | 0.060 |
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".