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1,547 m down, about 65 °C: Basel votes 89–1 to grow Riehen's heat network
Basel's Grosser Rat lends CHF 7.6 million to grow Riehen's 1994 geothermal heat network by 5.5 km and 620 connections. What it means for your heating design.
The Alpine water tower's 2026 statement: 5.5 % of Swiss ice, 2.2 km³ downhill
SCNAT and GLAMOS report 5.5 % Swiss glacier loss in 2026, second only to 2022. What 2.2 km³ of meltwater means for hydropower and Alpine design data.
Reading the Planet's Heat Ledger: ETH's Gergana Gyuleva Re-weighs the Climate Models
ETH Zurich's Gergana Gyuleva used satellite energy-imbalance data to re-weigh climate models: 3.25 °C by 2100. What it means for Swiss design weather files.
A 50% Better Rain Forecast Meets the Bauleitung: Read the Grid and Error Bar
Google claims WeatherNext 3 gives 50% better rain forecasts a day ahead. What a 0.25° grid cell means in Zurich, and how Bauleitung teams should test it.
Week 39 in Review: Read What Is Already Built — Ten Isotopes, Old Bridges and a Shared IFC Vocabulary
Week 39 on PAZ Kaffi: ETH Zurich reads Earth's recipe from ten isotopes, Swiss data dictionaries, old bridges, Chair44 and a 0.80 m IFC door check.
One Local Quarry: How ETH Zurich Read Ten Isotopes to Find Earth's Recipe
ETH Zurich's Sossi and Bower re-read ten isotope systems in open data: Earth formed from inner Solar System material, under 2 percent from beyond Jupiter.
A Year of Planet Earth, Folded Into 64 Numbers Per Pixel
Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Foundations compresses a year of Earth observation into a 64-dim embedding per 10m pixel. What it changes for AEC site work.
A fruit fly's 166,000-neuron wiring diagram is now a file you can query
Google and HHMI mapped 166,000 fruit-fly neurons into a downloadable graph. Why a connectome is not a mind — and what it teaches architects about querying BIM models.
Review of the Week: The forecast learned to say how sure it is
PAZ Kaffi's Monday recap of week 2026-W37: WeatherNext 3's error bar, Roman's first light, Switzerland's permafrost record, GPT-6 Astra and the Lötschberg.
Roman Is Up: A Billion Galaxies, and the Old Problem of Flattening a Sphere
NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched 30 Aug 2026 with a 100×-Hubble field. The same projection math that maps a billion galaxies flattens your site plan.
