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Swiss Knowledge Hub

Nº 01 — Architecture & Engineering Firms

AI solution for Swiss architecture and engineering firms

TL;DR

Swiss Knowledge Hub searches Dalux project files, SIA standards, and construction plans with page-level citations — core data in Azure Switzerland North, with a Dalux connector for plans, minutes, and acceptance reports.

Typical industry challenges

  • Project files live in Dalux, SharePoint, and local project folders at the same time
  • SIA standards are looked up frequently but rarely indexed systematically
  • Minutes, acceptance reports, and defect notices are hard to reconstruct on multi-year projects
  • Report preparation ties up project leads with searching instead of decision-making
  • Scanned plans and handwritten notes are barely searchable without OCR

Concrete scenarios

How Swiss Knowledge Hub is used in day-to-day work — factual, citable, with sources.

Search Dalux documents

Project leads ask in natural language about plans, building components, or minute entries from Dalux. Answers come with a page number and a direct jump into the original document.

Research time in stacks of plans and minutes can drop noticeably — depending on project size and document quality

SIA standard Q&A

Questions about structural design, building physics, or tender content are answered against the relevant SIA standards — with citations. Copyrighted standards stay within the firm's internal scope.

Reconstruct project history

For reviews, expert reports, or deconstruction work, minutes, acceptance reports, and construction plans are pulled together across the project's lifetime — including OCR over scanned documents.

Prepare reports and acceptance documents

Drafts for project documentation, acceptance reports, or status updates are generated from existing Dalux content. Sources and citations remain visible.

Compliance anchors for Architecture & Engineering Firms

Regulatory reference points that typically come up in conversations with compliance, legal, or supervisors. Not legal advice — case-by-case assessment stays with the organization.

  • Project confidentiality toward owners and partner firms
  • Copyright on plans, standards, and expert reports
  • Revised Federal Act on Data Protection (revFADP) for personal data in minutes
  • Contractual confidentiality agreements in joint-venture (ARGE) structures

LLM-specific requirements

  • Core data (database, vector store, storage) remains in Azure Switzerland North by default
  • No training use on plans, reports, or standards under SKH default models; under BYOK, provider terms apply
  • Role and project separation for ARGE and joint-venture setups via workspaces and file-level permissions

Matching integrations

From the SKH integration catalog — chosen for this industry's requirements. The full list of sources, vector databases, and infrastructure services lives in the integrations section on the home page.

Dalux (native integration for plans, minutes, acceptance reports)SharePoint / OneDrive (project folders)Google Drive (external collaborators)OCR for scanned plans and minutesBulk upload of historical projects

Frequent questions from this industry

How deep is the Dalux integration?
Dalux documents and folders are connected as sources via the SKH Dalux connector and synced periodically. Answers cite the relevant plan or minute with a page number; jumping into the original document is one click away.
Can we ingest SIA standards?
Yes, provided the firm holds the corresponding licenses. The content stays within your workspace; neither SKH default models nor BYOK providers use it for training.
Does the solution also work for scanned construction plans?
Yes. Scanned plans and handwritten minutes are made accessible via OCR and become searchable and citable afterward.
How are projects separated from one another?
Each project can be run as its own workspace or page, with file-level permissions. This is particularly helpful in joint-venture (ARGE) structures with external partners.
Where is our data processed?
Core data (database, vector store, storage) lives in Azure Switzerland North by default; inference of the SKH default models runs in the Swiss region as well. For operational reasons, front-end assets (static files, images) are partly served from the West Europe CDN. BYOK is optional and remains your responsibility content-wise.

Further reading

Discuss the use case for Architecture & Engineering Firms

15 minutes, industry-specific, no commitment. We will show the platform with a comparable scenario and answer compliance questions on the call.

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