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The following archived websites of the former "Knowledge Centre @ Weimar" have no longer been maintained and updated since March 31, 2019.
"Knowledge Center @ Weimar" was part of the Chair of Construction Economics, which was active until March 31, 2019.
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On May 10th, the participating student teams of the AEC Global Teamwork Project at Stanford University, California, presented their results to an international audience after four months of intensive work. This year, three students of the study program Management [Construction Real Estate Infrastructure] were involved in the project as LCFM (Life Cycle and Financial Manager) again.
At the end, there was great pleasure in Atlantic Team: It won both the «Leapfrog Sustainability»-Challenge and the «Whole Lifecycle Costing»-Challenge. These challenges are announced by the participating industry and awared to the teams that could satisfy the requirements of the particular challenge best.
The final presentations of the AEC generation 2013 can be found (soon) under:http://pbl.stanford.edu/ClassWeb2013/AECWebpage2013.html
(May 14th, 2013)
Richard Ohene Asiedu was admitted to the Chair of Construction Economics in December 2012 as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Alfen. He holds a bachelors degree in Building Technology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and a Master of Science degree in Infrastructure Planning from the University of Stuttgart. He has worked for several construction firms either as Qunatity Surveyor or Project Manager and is currently a lecturer on study leave from the Koforidua Polytechnic in Ghana. He is at the moment working on the topic «Cost and Time Misrepresentation of Public Sector Projects in Developing Countries» where he hopes to design a model to predict the occurence of cost and time overruns.
During May-August 2012 Dr. Wibowo was a postdoc research fellow, hosted by Prof. Dr. Alfen. This period is his second of three scheduled research stays with the full sponsorship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation under the George Forster for Experienced Researchers Scheme. His research at Chair for Construction Economics will address issues pertaining to fostering and promoting Indonesian PPP infrastructure development. While the first stay was focused on the methodological development of PPP project valuation, his second stay was concentrated on evaluating the preparedness of the countries macro- and PPP-specific environment in implementing PPP models. The deliverable of the two stays was one scientific manuscript that has recently been accepted for publication in Engineering, Construction, and Architectural Management and two other manuscripts, submitted to two international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Wibowo will complete his third and final stay in 2013.
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From 22-23 June 2012 the invited participants discussed the preliminary results of the EIBURS project "The History of European Infrastructure Finance", sponsored by the European Investment Bank University Research Sponsorship.
Over the long-term, the finance of infrastructure has been organised in a myriad of different ways from being financed by fully private to fully public institutions. Though no country is completely alike, there have been considerable commonalities across the European context. Our research project aims to collect and analyse data on infrastructure finance over the long-term, and on this basis identify phases in finance infrastructure across sectors, countries, financial as well as other regulatory and socio-economic institutions. This goes along with the analyses of the outcomes of public engagement in public infrastructure provisioning in Europe as well as with an identification and exploration of European best practice examples for infrastructure financing that provide lessons learnt for contemporary policy debates.
A selection of the papers presented will be qualified to be published in The Journal of European Economic History.
Dr. Andreas Wibowo, guest researcher from Indonesia and holder of a scholarship by the Humboldt Foundation spents another 4 moths with KC@W. Beside his postdoctoral research he gives a course on scientific work skills in the Management programm and will supervise student theses. Interested? Please contact KC@W.
It was a great honour for Chair of Construction Economics and the KC@W to host the COST Action TU1001 P3T3 Meeting in Weimar this March aligned to the 12. Betriebswirtschaftliches Symposium-Bau. The most relevant topics in the field of Public Private Partnerships in Transport on a European level were discussed within working group meetings on Wednesday and Friday and presented in an open conference on Thursday. Among these are the state and trends of European PPPs in transport, PPP decision models and the procurement process, critical success factors of PPPs and impacts of the public debt crisis. The fruitful international conference P3T3 Open Day on Thursday combined research and practice in the field of PPPs in transport. Researchers from all over Europe and the world, as well as some of the highest and most experienced professionals shared their knowledge and experience in presentations and a panel discussion. Among the participants were university professors and researchers from the Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Keynote speakers from the Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (BMVBS), Verkehrsinfrastrukturfinanzierungsgesellschaft (VIFG), VINCI Concessions and Nord LB enriched the conference.
This was the third workshop in the course of this research project after meetings in Lisbon, Portugal (January 2011) and Chios, Greece (July 2011). The next workshops will take place in Madrid, Spain (October 2012) and Preston, UK (April 2013).
| Presentations and discussions with research experts and professionals on the P3T3 Open Day (22nd March) |
About two years ago, Prof J. A. Wium from the Murray & Robert Chair for Construction Engineering and Management initiated a Master's Degree Programme similar to the one at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar initiated by Prof. Hans-Wilhelm Alfen. The Murray & Roberts Chair aims at educating managers at all levels and in all spheres of the built environment, be it from the side of the client, designer, contractor or user. Now, a short course on Public Private Partnerships was offered at the end of February 2012 in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, and WITS University, Johannesburg.
Björn Wündsch from the Chair of Construction Economics and member of the Knowledge Center @ Weimar (KCW) hold lectures on the theoretical background and characteristics of Public Private Partnerships and on organizational models of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure Management and Financing. He also presented special applications for PPP in roads and highways and provided a case study showing the application, advantages and pitfalls of PPP.
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the "Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft" had tendered the award among all German universities for the second time. This year's motto was the international dimension of the university teaching. All in all, 28 universities took part in the competition.
In a diverting and thrilling final in Berlin on Monday, 7th November 2011, the Bauhaus-Universität could prevail successfully at the competition for the "International University 2011" and take the title to Weimar. The Chancellor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karl Beucke, as well as the Head of the International Office Dr. Muriel Helbig and Prof. Hedwig Wagner (Professor for European Media Culture) competed for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with a vivid live-presentation including a video clip and active commitment in the subsequent question time. With various examples from teaching and studying in Weimar, they told about the international atmosphere in all degree programmes and the numerous possibilities for students to go abroad or to take part in international projects. The outstanding international projects include, among others, the AEC Global Teamwork Project in cooperation with Stanford University, USA.
Moreover, the title "International University 2011" implicates trophy money amounting to 50.000. The University Directorate and the International Office are aiming at financing new measures and projects, which support and increase the strategy of internationalisation further, with this amount.
Details of the call for tenders can be found here: http://www.daad.de/hochschulen/ausschreibungen/16538.de.html
Five Master's Degree students from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are granted with scholarships for the participation in the 19th round of the renowned AEC Global Teamwork Project at Stanford University, USA. Within the AEC Global Teamwork Project architecture, engineering and construction management students from universities around the world work in international teams on real estate development projects.
Johannes Solaß and Annemarie Herrmann take part as civil engineers and Maria Frank, Sabrina Lingemann and Moafak Kata as life cycle and financial managers (see picture - from left to right).
The AEC Global Teamwork Project starts with a kick-off meeting in January 2012 at Stanford University and is followed by online lectures and team meetings through the summer term leading to the final presentations in May 2012.