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Challenge

Build a District Cooling Plant Maintenance Outage Scheduler

Evaluate planned chiller overhauls against district cooling customer contracts and ambient weather loads. Synthesize outage sequence plans that preserve minimum customer delta-T and chilling tonnage.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Evaluate planned chiller overhauls against district cooling customer contracts and ambient weather loads. Synthesize outage sequence plans that preserve minimum customer delta-T and chilling tonnage.

District cooling operational dispatchers and chilled water network coordinators

Ingest scheduled chiller maintenance requests and customer contracted refrigeration tonnage limits.

Model cooling demand profiles using EnergyPlus epJSON chiller objects and ambient wet-bulb predictions.

Synthesize customer chilled water outage allocations to avoid critical pressure or cooling loss.

Compile an operations outage plan and dispatch notice for customer engineering review.

Multi-pane dashboard displaying plant chiller staging, customer delivery pressure profiles, and maintenance sign-off approvals.

Use open-source synthetic normalized district cooling network logs with EnergyPlus epJSON HVAC templates stored in a GitHub mock repository. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

EnergyPlus Extracts chiller plant modeling schemas and input object conventions from the EnergyPlus epJSON schema repository.

anthropic-claude, pydantic-ai, mlflow. anthropic-claude provides hosted structured analysis and bilingual notification drafts without running untrusted local model instances. Hosted Claude API for structured schema parsing, constraint reasoning, and operations report drafting.

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.

Validates chiller maintenance windows against total peak customer cooling load demand.

Flags violations where scheduled outages exceed available thermal energy storage buffer capacity.

Produces structured JSON outage schedules including bilingual English-Arabic customer advisory drafts.

Requires explicit human engineer confirmation before publishing simulated network dispatch actions.

```json [ { "input": { "chiller_id": "CH-01", "capacity_tonnage": 2500, "maintenance_window_hours": 8, "ambient_wet_bulb_c": 31.5, "connected_customers": [ { "customer_id": "CUST-TWR-A", "demand_tonnage": 1800, "critical_facility": false } ], "storage_ton_hours": 12000 }, "expected_output": { "feasible": true, "backup_chiller": "CH-02", "storage_draw_tonnage": 600, "unmet_load_tonnage": 0, "customer_advisories": [ { "customer_id": "CUST-TWR-A", "flow_derate_pct": 0, "advisory_en": "Scheduled maintenance CH-01 mitigated by thermal storage.", "advisory_ar": "صيانة مجدولة للمبرد CH-01 مغطاة بالتخزين الحراري." } ] } }, { "input": { "chiller_id": "CH-02", "capacity_tonnage": 3000, "maintenance_window_hours": 12, "ambient_wet_bulb_c": 34, "connected_customers": [ { "customer_id": "CUST-HOSPITAL", "demand_tonnage": 2800, "critical_facility": true } ], "storage_ton_hours": 2000 }, "expected_output": { "feasible": false, "backup_chiller": null, "storage_draw_tonnage": 2000, "unmet_load_tonnage": 800, "customer_advisories": [ { "customer_id": "CUST-HOSPITAL", "flow_derate_pct": 28.57, "advisory_en": "Outage rejected: Critical deficit of 800 tons for hospital client.", "advisory_ar": "تم رفض الإيقاف: عجز حرج قدره 800 طن تبريد للمستشفى." } ] } } ] ```

Simulates dispatch actions only; requires manual validation by licensed mechanical engineers before actual valve operations. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Simulates dispatch actions only; requires manual validation by licensed mechanical engineers before actual valve operations. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Validates chiller maintenance windows against total peak customer cooling load demand. Flags violations where scheduled outages exceed available thermal energy storage buffer capacity. Produces structured JSON outage schedules including bilingual English-Arabic customer advisory drafts. Requires explicit human engineer confirmation before publishing simulated network dispatch actions.

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 scheduled chiller maintenance requests and customer contracted refrigeration tonnage limits. Model cooling demand profiles using EnergyPlus epJSON chiller objects and ambient wet-bulb predictions. Synthesize customer chilled water outage allocations to avoid critical pressure or cooling loss. Compile an operations outage plan and dispatch notice for customer engineering review.

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

Validates chiller maintenance windows against total peak customer cooling load demand. Flags violations where scheduled outages exceed available thermal energy storage buffer capacity. Produces structured JSON outage schedules including bilingual English-Arabic customer advisory drafts. Requires explicit human engineer confirmation before publishing simulated network dispatch actions.

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

Multi-pane dashboard displaying plant chiller staging, customer delivery pressure profiles, and maintenance sign-off approvals.

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

Simulates dispatch actions only; requires manual validation by licensed mechanical engineers before actual valve operations.

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 scheduled chiller maintenance requests and customer contracted refrigeration tonnage limits.

  • Model cooling demand profiles using EnergyPlus epJSON chiller objects and ambient wet-bulb predictions.

  • Synthesize customer chilled water outage allocations to avoid critical pressure or cooling loss.

  • Compile an operations outage plan and dispatch notice for customer engineering review.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Use open-source synthetic normalized district cooling network logs with EnergyPlus epJSON HVAC templates stored in a GitHub mock repository. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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Anthropic Claude

LLM for code generation & more

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Ingest scheduled chiller maintenance requests and customer contracted refrigeration tonnage limits. Model c...
  • Validates chiller maintenance windows against total peak customer cooling load demand. Flags violations whe...
  • Multi-pane dashboard displaying plant chiller staging, customer delivery pressure profiles, and maintenance...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Anthropic Claude · 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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