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A slender spiral staircase leads up from the ninth ground of the principle constructing to the roof. The Chancellor trudges previous the kabuff of the newbie radio group, opens a door, then the sky opens over Berlin. The victory column could be seen on the horizon, the tv tower. “There are worse looks over our city,” says Lars Oeverdieck. But the Chancellor of the TU Berlin didn’t invite you to the roof on this present day on the finish of the winter semester. What he needs to point out up here’s a catastrophe.

Oeverdieck’s college within the west of Berlin, glorious in lots of areas corresponding to AI or biotechnology, round 35,000 college students from over 140 nations. The purple tie blows over the shoulder to the Chancellor, he calculates what to speculate. “The east wing has been dense in the math building for two years, water damage, 200 million. The Telefunken high-rise, there were many offices of our computer science in there, pipe break, at 75 million. The green physics building there, we have been accompanying 150 million for years.”