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Challenge

Build a Chilled Water Pipe Outage and Fire-Flow Preservation Planner

Simulate district cooling pipe isolation to coordinate emergency customer shutoffs while preserving fire-flow pressure. Formulate valving plans that maintain regulatory network pressure thresholds.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Simulate district cooling pipe isolation to coordinate emergency customer shutoffs while preserving fire-flow pressure. Formulate valving plans that maintain regulatory network pressure thresholds.

District cooling hydraulic engineers and municipal water network dispatchers

Ingest pipe segment isolation requests and customer cooling supply connection coordinates.

Simulate hydraulic pressure variations and residual flows using WNTR distribution network modeling.

Identify downstream tenant chilled water heat exchangers starved below critical delta-T thresholds.

Assemble an isolation valving schedule and bypass pumping plan for engineering director approval.

Interactive pipe topology schematic highlighting isolated loops, boundary valves, and customer pressure alarms.

Use WNTR synthetic network INP models adapted for dual-pipe district water and cooling networks. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Water Network Tool for Resilience Uses WNTR network simulation objects to evaluate pressure-dependent demands and isolation valving impacts.

langgraph, pydantic-ai, wntr. langgraph structures the multi-step cycle of network isolation, pressure recalculation, and mitigation routing. Hosted LLM API capable of validating hydraulic simulation state and drafting procedural isolation runbooks.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Simulates pipe isolation valves to determine impacted customer junction nodes using WNTR.

Flags any connected customer junction experiencing pressure drop below minimum service levels.

Generates a step-by-step valve closing and reopening sequence to prevent hydraulic water hammer.

Requires signed operational authority sign-off before simulated isolation plans can be marked verified.

```json [ { "input": { "isolation_pipe_id": "P-402", "valve_ids_to_close": [ "V-12", "V-13" ], "network_nodes": [ { "node_id": "J-80", "base_pressure_bar": 4.5, "customer": "MALL-RETAIL" }, { "node_id": "J-81", "base_pressure_bar": 4.2, "customer": "HOTEL-TWR" } ], "min_required_pressure_bar": 2.5 }, "expected_output": { "isolation_possible": true, "lowest_post_isolation_pressure_bar": 3.1, "isolated_customers": [], "valve_sequence": [ "V-12", "V-13" ], "advisory": "Hydraulic bypass active via Loop-B; pressure remains acceptable." } }, { "input": { "isolation_pipe_id": "P-101", "valve_ids_to_close": [ "V-01", "V-02" ], "network_nodes": [ { "node_id": "J-05", "base_pressure_bar": 3.8, "customer": "FINANCIAL-CTR" } ], "min_required_pressure_bar": 2.5 }, "expected_output": { "isolation_possible": false, "lowest_post_isolation_pressure_bar": 0, "isolated_customers": [ "FINANCIAL-CTR" ], "valve_sequence": [], "advisory": "Isolation isolates FINANCIAL-CTR completely; mobile bypass pump required." } } ] ```

Simulation environment only; network valve operations must follow physical tagging and lock-out procedures. Examples are simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Simulation environment only; network valve operations must follow physical tagging and lock-out procedures. Examples are simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Simulates pipe isolation valves to determine impacted customer junction nodes using WNTR. Flags any connected customer junction experiencing pressure drop below minimum service levels. Generates a step-by-step valve closing and reopening sequence to prevent hydraulic water hammer. Requires signed operational authority sign-off before simulated isolation plans can be marked verified.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest pipe segment isolation requests and customer cooling supply connection coordinates. Simulate hydraulic pressure variations and residual flows using WNTR distribution network modeling. Identify downstream tenant chilled water heat exchangers starved below critical delta-T thresholds. Assemble an isolation valving schedule and bypass pumping plan for engineering director approval.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Simulates pipe isolation valves to determine impacted customer junction nodes using WNTR. Flags any connected customer junction experiencing pressure drop below minimum service levels. Generates a step-by-step valve closing and reopening sequence to prevent hydraulic water hammer. Requires signed operational authority sign-off before simulated isolation plans can be marked verified.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Interactive pipe topology schematic highlighting isolated loops, boundary valves, and customer pressure alarms.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Simulation environment only; network valve operations must follow physical tagging and lock-out procedures. Examples are simplified synthetic app records, not complete official schema files.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest pipe segment isolation requests and customer cooling supply connection coordinates.

  • Simulate hydraulic pressure variations and residual flows using WNTR distribution network modeling.

  • Identify downstream tenant chilled water heat exchangers starved below critical delta-T thresholds.

  • Assemble an isolation valving schedule and bypass pumping plan for engineering director approval.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Use WNTR synthetic network INP models adapted for dual-pipe district water and cooling networks. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

LangGraph

Runtime for stateful agent workflows.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest pipe segment isolation requests and customer cooling supply connection coordinates. Simulate hydraul...
  • Simulates pipe isolation valves to determine impacted customer junction nodes using WNTR. Flags any connect...
  • Interactive pipe topology schematic highlighting isolated loops, boundary valves, and customer pressure ala...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • LangGraph · Optional
Orchestration
  • LangGraph · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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