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Birr's 250 MW of winter insurance, re-read in 2026 against doubled Swiss solar
In 2022 Switzerland bought 250 MW of gas turbines in Birr as winter insurance. Now they go, PV has doubled to 9.5 GW, and winter stays the open question.
A Steel Beam With a Name Can Stand Twice, From Double-T to Winterthur's K.118
From the rolled double-T to EN 10365, the section table made steel reusable. K.118 in Winterthur proves it; a sketch recomputes 129 real profiles.
Distributed Autonomous Systems: The Site That Keeps Building After You Lose a Machine
How swarms build without a centre: consensus math, degrade-don't-die, and the Swiss procurement clause to read before you buy autonomous site machinery.
Generative architecture: you stop drawing the building and start authoring the machine that finds it
Generative architecture flips design: you write the constraints and let the solver find the form. From Stiny's shape grammars to ETH's Shea — a PAZ foundation.
StructureGS: when a Gaussian splat learns where the hinge is
StructureGS adds oriented bounding boxes to 3D Gaussian Splatting so scanned parts stay separable — why AEC teams should demand articulated deliverables.
Compression Is Learning: An Afternoon With scikit-learn on Your Own Machine
A hands-on scikit-learn tutorial: compress a facade photo with k-means, see why prediction equals compression, and keep every pixel inside Swiss jurisdiction.
Review of the Week — W33: The week Swiss AEC stopped waiting for the software to ship
Week 33 recap: Swiss engineers build tools vendors never shipped, Terafab's 1 TW ceiling, Graphisoft's collaboration layer, Betuwe InSAR data, and Rotterdam's green facade debate.
Thrust Network Analysis: The 350-Year-Old Theorem That Certifies Vaults and Grows New Shells
How Thrust Network Analysis turns Hooke's 1676 hanging chain into a lower-bound proof that certifies Gothic vaults and form-finds new compression shells.
SONG rehearses the crowd before the robot walks your lobby
SONG's 3D Gaussian splatting simulator trains social-navigation robots on photoreal crowds — and turns every public splat-twin into a Swiss data-residency question.
Reading the Platform: Why an SBB Node Is Switzerland's Highest-Value Urban Problem
An SBB node is never a station — it's this platform, this 800m walkshed. Read transit-oriented density from the timetable and rank your parcels first.
