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W43 in Review: Write the Rule Down, Keep a Human on the Check
W43 recap: Archicad Entwurf automation, Rhino 8 tools, IFC agent access policy, Depot Hard, Culmann's graphic statics and the Wattwil timber tender.
Take the pressure off the mountain: Brienz/Brinzauls' 2023 drainage bet, re-read in 2026
In 2023 Graubünden bet CHF 39.8 m on draining the mountain under Brienz/Brinzauls. By May 2026 the slide ran under 5 cm a year. Site plans, take note.
Subsidy, not tax: what the 2023 climate vote changed in Swiss boiler rooms
Three years after the 2023 vote: heat pumps rose from 17% to 25% of Swiss buildings, and year one of the Impulsprogramm used about 90% of its funds.
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.
