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The annual Bauhaus Summer School “NextGen Engineers – Advanced Training Courses for a Sustainable Tomorrow” has officially begun at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bauhaus University Weimar. Organized by the Chair of Advanced Structures under the coordination of Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Abrahamczyk and MSc. Peshawa Luqman Hasan, this year’s program brings together 29 participants from 16 countries, including Ghana, Croatia, Iraq, Mexico, Uzbekistan, Ecuador, Turkey, and many more.

We extend our warmest congratulations to Baban Abdulwahid Bapir, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Impacts of Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction on the Seismic Resilience of Reinforced Concrete Structures through a Multi-Model Analysis” on July 17, 2025, at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

On June 25th, 2025, the annual IKI Research Colloquium took place at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, offering doctoral researchers a platform to share progress on current scientific projects. The Chair of Advanced Structures was represented by Peshawa L. Hasan and Kemmar T. Webber, both contributing insights from their ongoing PhD research.

Robotic Tectonics II – Final Critique and Summaery 2025
As part of the fellowship project “Robotic Tectonics – Robot-based Teaching and Learning Environment for Automated Construction Processes” (Stifterverband / Thuringian Ministry of Economics), which aims to develop an innovative course on robotic construction processes, the second iteration of the course held its final critique today, 4 July 2025, in the D-LAB.

As part of the long-standing collaboration between the NHRE master degree program at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), our students had the opportunity yesterday to participate in the annual academic excursion to Potsdam. This tradition, now running for over a decade, provides the students with an invaluable blend of historical, scientific, and interdisciplinary insight.

The PARFORCE project has been awarded first place in the PROFFORMANCE+ International Higher Education Teacher Award 2025 in the Digitalization category. The project's innovative course "Experimental Testing Based on Impact and Resistance: Wind, Fire and Earthquake" stood out among 161 applications across four categories: Digitalization, Internationalization, Inclusion & Diversity, and Sustainability.

The first of a series of experiments to assess the performance of voided concrete beams in comparison to solid ones was successfully carried out.

A successful week discovering the logic behind automation processes at the Smart Engineering Science Camp.

An ambitious course, integrating forensic structural engineering with innovative teaching methods, is set to launch in 2027. Hosted in Italy, this international pilot elective course aims to blend in-person sessions with online components, targeting Master’s students and lifelong learners.

As part of the ongoing research efforts at the Chair of Advanced Structures, Bauhaus University Weimar, a symposium titled "Symposium Toward Advancing Seismic Risk Mitigation in Kurdistan and Iraq" was successfully held in Slemani, Iraq. This event marked the conclusion of the collaborative project "Towards Earthquake Mitigation in Iraq: EMS-98 Adopted Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Buildings", funded by DAAD under the Ta’ziz Short-term Measures 2024 program. The symposium brought together experts, academics, and policymakers to discuss innovative approaches to seismic resilience.