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The paper is an extended study of the behaviour of simplicial co-sheaves on the buildings associated to algebraic groups, both finite and infinite dimensional. The line of argument the author is hoping to achieve is as follows. From the text: ``One should attempt to use the homological algebra of simplicial co-sheaves to construct a category of representations of something like the loop group associated to the semisimple group \(G\) which have a computable character theory. Then one should attempt to express the finite dimensional representations of \(G\) as virtual representations in that category. Then presumably the `generic decomposition pattern' should be formulae expressing the character of a dual Weyl module in terms of these computable characters. The hope of constructing such a theory has led me to conduct the rather extended exploration below.'' Given this, the author is immediately tempted to replace harmonic analysis with a purely algebraic theory and to use this theory to do the representation-theoretic computations necessary. The author's approach to this replacement is based on considering the relevant Bruhat-Tits building. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0868.00030].