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Challenge

Build a District Cooling Thermal Connection Agreement Compliance Verifier

Analyze building management chilled water connection submittals against contractual delta-T agreements. Flag low delta-T syndrome risks and synthesize technical non-conformance notices for regional developers.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Analyze building management chilled water connection submittals against contractual delta-T agreements. Flag low delta-T syndrome risks and synthesize technical non-conformance notices for regional developers.

District Cooling Utility Contracts Engineer

Ingest building primary and secondary chilled water heat exchanger submittals.

Extract contractual design delta-T, maximum flow rates, and building design cooling tonnage.

Model heat exchanger return water temperatures under partial load using EnergyPlus coil performance logic.

Generate formal compliance scorecards and penalty exposure summaries for tenant developers.

Contract compliance portal with heat exchanger performance curves and automated bilateral violation notices.

Use standardized building connection schematics and epJSON PlantLoop heat exchanger records. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

EnergyPlus Leverages EnergyPlus PlantLoop and HeatExchanger:FluidToFluid schema definitions to audit return water temperatures.

haystack, energyplus-schema, pydantic. Haystack provides modular search and document extraction pipelines over complex technical connection manuals and submittals. Local or hosted LLM with strong technical contract auditing and engineering parameter extraction.

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.

Extracts secondary supply/return temperatures and design heat transfer coefficients.

Detects design configurations resulting in return chilled water below contractual 14°C threshold.

Calculates low delta-T capacity penalty surcharges according to contractual tariff formulas.

Assembles an engineering notice of non-compliance for client review.

```json [ { "input": { "tenant_id": "TOWER-BURJ-04", "contract_delta_t_c": 8, "contract_return_temp_c": 13.5, "submittal_data": { "supply_temp_c": 5.5, "design_return_temp_c": 11, "hex_ua_value": 45000, "peak_tons": 1200 } }, "expected_output": { "compliance_status": "NON_COMPLIANT", "observed_delta_t_c": 5.5, "deficit_c": 2.5, "penalty_risk": "HIGH", "primary_deficiency": "Submittal return water temperature 11.0C violates contract minimum of 13.5C, inducing plant low delta-T syndrome.", "requires_lead_engineer_review": true } }, { "input": { "tenant_id": "TOWER-BURJ-05", "contract_delta_t_c": 8, "contract_return_temp_c": 13.5, "submittal_data": null }, "expected_output": { "compliance_status": "INCOMPLETE_SUBMISSION", "error": "MISSING_HEAT_EXCHANGER_DATA", "requires_lead_engineer_review": true } } ] ```

Advisory contract audit; physical district cooling connection valves are not actuated by this system. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Advisory contract audit; physical district cooling connection valves are not actuated by this system. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Extracts secondary supply/return temperatures and design heat transfer coefficients. Detects design configurations resulting in return chilled water below contractual 14°C threshold. Calculates low delta-T capacity penalty surcharges according to contractual tariff formulas. Assembles an engineering notice of non-compliance for client review.

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 building primary and secondary chilled water heat exchanger submittals. Extract contractual design delta-T, maximum flow rates, and building design cooling tonnage. Model heat exchanger return water temperatures under partial load using EnergyPlus coil performance logic. Generate formal compliance scorecards and penalty exposure summaries for tenant developers.

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

Extracts secondary supply/return temperatures and design heat transfer coefficients. Detects design configurations resulting in return chilled water below contractual 14°C threshold. Calculates low delta-T capacity penalty surcharges according to contractual tariff formulas. Assembles an engineering notice of non-compliance for client review.

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

Contract compliance portal with heat exchanger performance curves and automated bilateral violation notices.

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

Advisory contract audit; physical district cooling connection valves are not actuated by this system.

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 building primary and secondary chilled water heat exchanger submittals.

  • Extract contractual design delta-T, maximum flow rates, and building design cooling tonnage.

  • Model heat exchanger return water temperatures under partial load using EnergyPlus coil performance logic.

  • Generate formal compliance scorecards and penalty exposure summaries for tenant developers.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Use standardized building connection schematics and epJSON PlantLoop heat exchanger records. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Haystack

Framework

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest building primary and secondary chilled water heat exchanger submittals. Extract contractual design d...
  • Extracts secondary supply/return temperatures and design heat transfer coefficients. Detects design configu...
  • Contract compliance portal with heat exchanger performance curves and automated bilateral violation notices.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

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
  • Haystack · 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

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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