Build a Reclaimed Building Material Marketplace Matcher
Evaluate demolition salvage manifests against architectural specifications to match reclaimed structural timber and fixtures. Quantify embodied carbon savings and verify dimensional allowances.
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Evaluate demolition salvage manifests against architectural specifications to match reclaimed structural timber and fixtures. Quantify embodied carbon savings and verify dimensional allowances.
Circular Economy Procurement Specialist
Ingest reclaimed inventory logs with material grade, dimensions, and salvage conditions.
Parse proposed building bill of materials to identify candidate replacement elements.
Calculate dimensional fit within allowable tolerances and estimated carbon offset.
Emit structured reuse substitution proposal for architect and structural engineer approval.
Material pairing interface showing dimension deltas, grade matches, and carbon savings counters.
Use mock salvage records patterned on open circular construction logs from urban deconstruction projects. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
IfcOpenShell Employs IfcOpenShell ifc5d concepts for material quantity extraction and inventory cost/carbon tracking.
dspy, pandas, fastapi. DSPy systematically optimizes the few-shot prompting required to match heterogeneous material grade descriptions. Instruction-tuned model with consistent quantitative calculation and string normalization.
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.
Rejects salvage items failing minimum required architectural length or structural grade.
Emits carbon savings based on virgin steel or timber displacement factors.
Produces line-item substitution table ready for procurement review.
```json [ { "input": { "demand_item": { "item_id": "BEAM-REQ-01", "material": "Glulam Timber", "min_length_m": 4.5, "min_depth_mm": 240, "min_grade": "GL24" }, "salvage_item": { "salvage_id": "DEMO-TIMB-88", "material": "Glulam Timber", "length_m": 4.8, "depth_mm": 240, "grade": "GL28", "embodied_carbon_saved_kgco2e": 320 } }, "expected_output": { "match_status": "ACCEPTED", "trimming_waste_m": 0.3, "carbon_offset_kgco2e": 320, "substitution_approved_for_review": true } }, { "input": { "demand_item": { "item_id": "STEEL-REQ-04", "material": "Structural Steel I-Beam", "min_length_m": 6, "min_depth_mm": 300, "min_grade": "S355" }, "salvage_item": { "salvage_id": "DEMO-STL-12", "material": "Structural Steel I-Beam", "length_m": 5.2, "depth_mm": 300, "grade": "S355", "embodied_carbon_saved_kgco2e": 450 } }, "expected_output": { "match_status": "REJECTED", "reason": "Insufficient salvage length (5.2m < required 6.0m)", "carbon_offset_kgco2e": 0, "substitution_approved_for_review": false } } ] ```
All material substitutions are provisional and require destructive or non-destructive certified laboratory testing. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
All material substitutions are provisional and require destructive or non-destructive certified laboratory testing. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Rejects salvage items failing minimum required architectural length or structural grade. Emits carbon savings based on virgin steel or timber displacement factors. Produces line-item substitution table ready for procurement review.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.
Complete workflow
Ingest reclaimed inventory logs with material grade, dimensions, and salvage conditions. Parse proposed building bill of materials to identify candidate replacement elements. Calculate dimensional fit within allowable tolerances and estimated carbon offset. Emit structured reuse substitution proposal for architect and structural engineer approval.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Rejects salvage items failing minimum required architectural length or structural grade. Emits carbon savings based on virgin steel or timber displacement factors. Produces line-item substitution table ready for procurement review.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Material pairing interface showing dimension deltas, grade matches, and carbon savings counters.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
All material substitutions are provisional and require destructive or non-destructive certified laboratory testing.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Ingest reclaimed inventory logs with material grade, dimensions, and salvage conditions.
Parse proposed building bill of materials to identify candidate replacement elements.
Calculate dimensional fit within allowable tolerances and estimated carbon offset.
Emit structured reuse substitution proposal for architect and structural engineer approval.
Reference links and supporting material
Use mock salvage records patterned on open circular construction logs from urban deconstruction projects. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
Challenge setup
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- Ingest reclaimed inventory logs with material grade, dimensions, and salvage conditions. Parse proposed bui...
- Rejects salvage items failing minimum required architectural length or structural grade. Emits carbon savin...
- Material pairing interface showing dimension deltas, grade matches, and carbon savings counters.
- 2 public reference cases
- 3 configured tools
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- DSPy · Optional
- DSPy · Optional
- DSPy · 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
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