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Challenge

Build a Heat-Aware Steel Erection Shift Planner

Evaluate ambient temperature, wind gusts, and thermal steel expansion to schedule structural steel lifting and bolt-torquing. Assemble safety-compliant work rosters to protect site rigging crews from extreme heat hazards.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Evaluate ambient temperature, wind gusts, and thermal steel expansion to schedule structural steel lifting and bolt-torquing. Assemble safety-compliant work rosters to protect site rigging crews from extreme heat hazards.

Site Structural Construction Superintendent

Ingest heavy structural lift manifests, crane lift radius capacities, and hourly microclimate heat forecasts.

Calculate thermal expansion allowances on critical long-span trusses to avoid alignment binding.

Apply wet-bulb globe temperature worker exposure thresholds to establish mandatory rest-work cycles.

Synthesize a daily steel erection shift plan scheduling heavy rigging during cool nocturnal and early dawn hours.

Daily rigging board showing hourly crane wind limits, thermal expansion risk indicators, and crew work-rest rotations.

Synthesize structural lift lists with steel member lengths, weights, and forecasted 24-hour weather station feeds. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

EnergyPlus Draws on EnergyPlus weather parsing and design-day thermal concepts to structure microclimate hourly ambient boundary inputs.

agno, pydantic, fastapi. Agno provides lightweight agent workflows for synthesizing complex shift schedules under multi-variable engineering constraints. Hosted Claude API for evaluating trade-offs between crane availability and worker heat safety limits.

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.

Restricts heavy crane lifts when forecasted ambient temperatures exceed 44 degrees Celsius or wind exceeds safe boom speeds.

Schedules high-precision structural bolt connections during hours where thermal expansion variance is below 3 mm.

Produces an hourly rigging schedule with assigned mandatory shaded rest intervals.

```json [ { "input": { "lift_id": "LIFT-TRUSS-01", "truss_length_m": 42, "weight_tons": 18.5, "forecast": [ { "hour": "04:00", "temp_c": 31, "wind_ms": 3.2 }, { "hour": "08:00", "temp_c": 38, "wind_ms": 5.1 }, { "hour": "12:00", "temp_c": 46, "wind_ms": 7.8 } ] }, "expected_output": { "approved_window": "04:00 - 07:00", "thermal_expansion_mm": 6.2, "work_rest_ratio": "50_10", "shift_status": "APPROVED_EARLY_DAWN", "prohibited_hours": [ "11:00", "12:00", "13:00", "14:00", "15:00" ] } }, { "input": { "lift_id": "LIFT-TRUSS-02", "truss_length_m": 20, "weight_tons": 8, "forecast": [ { "hour": "04:00", "temp_c": 35, "wind_ms": 14.5 }, { "hour": "08:00", "temp_c": 42, "wind_ms": 12 } ] }, "expected_output": { "approved_window": "NONE", "thermal_expansion_mm": 4.1, "work_rest_ratio": "UNSAFE", "shift_status": "POSTPONED", "prohibited_hours": [ "04:00", "08:00" ] } } ] ```

Rigging plans are operational proposals; certified crane lift supervisors must conduct physical wind and rigging inspections prior to hoisting. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Rigging plans are operational proposals; certified crane lift supervisors must conduct physical wind and rigging inspections prior to hoisting. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Restricts heavy crane lifts when forecasted ambient temperatures exceed 44 degrees Celsius or wind exceeds safe boom speeds. Schedules high-precision structural bolt connections during hours where thermal expansion variance is below 3 mm. Produces an hourly rigging schedule with assigned mandatory shaded rest intervals.

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 heavy structural lift manifests, crane lift radius capacities, and hourly microclimate heat forecasts. Calculate thermal expansion allowances on critical long-span trusses to avoid alignment binding. Apply wet-bulb globe temperature worker exposure thresholds to establish mandatory rest-work cycles. Synthesize a daily steel erection shift plan scheduling heavy rigging during cool nocturnal and early dawn hours.

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

Restricts heavy crane lifts when forecasted ambient temperatures exceed 44 degrees Celsius or wind exceeds safe boom speeds. Schedules high-precision structural bolt connections during hours where thermal expansion variance is below 3 mm. Produces an hourly rigging schedule with assigned mandatory shaded rest intervals.

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

Daily rigging board showing hourly crane wind limits, thermal expansion risk indicators, and crew work-rest rotations.

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

Rigging plans are operational proposals; certified crane lift supervisors must conduct physical wind and rigging inspections prior to hoisting.

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 heavy structural lift manifests, crane lift radius capacities, and hourly microclimate heat forecasts.

  • Calculate thermal expansion allowances on critical long-span trusses to avoid alignment binding.

  • Apply wet-bulb globe temperature worker exposure thresholds to establish mandatory rest-work cycles.

  • Synthesize a daily steel erection shift plan scheduling heavy rigging during cool nocturnal and early dawn hours.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthesize structural lift lists with steel member lengths, weights, and forecasted 24-hour weather station feeds. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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Agno

Framework for multimodal agents.

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Ingest heavy structural lift manifests, crane lift radius capacities, and hourly microclimate heat forecast...
  • Restricts heavy crane lifts when forecasted ambient temperatures exceed 44 degrees Celsius or wind exceeds...
  • Daily rigging board showing hourly crane wind limits, thermal expansion risk indicators, and crew work-rest...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Agno · Optional
Orchestration
  • Agno · 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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