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At the Chair of Construction Engineering and Management, a new scientific publication has been published in the international journal Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon). The paper “Information Requirements for BIM: Current Practice and Implementation in Germany” by Martina Mellenthin Filardo, Florinda Ruppert and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Melzner examines the development and quality of Employer Information Requirements (EIR) within the German BIM context.

Claudia Föllmer received the award from the Association of the Association of the Construction Industry, Environment and Mechanical Engineering (VDBUM) in Willingen on 11 February 2026 for her master's thesis on: ‘Analysis and concept development for the digitisation of approval processes for large-scale and heavy transport in the construction industry’.

The Chair of Construction Engineering and Management has recently published two new scientific papers dealing with the analysis and optimization of construction and approval processes in the context of digital transformation.

The Chair of Construction Enineering and Management and at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has published a new scientific study on the economic evaluation of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) method in the journal Bauingenieur.

The Chair of Construction Management and Construction Methods participated in the International Scientific Conference: “Modern Trends and Innovations in Civil Engineering” at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG) in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 9–10 October 2025.

The Chair of Construction Engineering and Management participated in the 1st African Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ACCCBE), held in cooperation with CONVR 2025 from 20–22 October 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Over 300 children excited about construction robots. As part of Weimar Children's University 2025, the Chair of Construction Engineering and Management offered young explorers a glimpse behind the scenes of their research fields on September 24. Impressed by the enthusiasm and curiosity of the future engineers, the professorship was delighted to present the program to the pupils of Mellingen Elementary School on October 1.

As part of the DAAD and ENZ-funded research exchange with the University of Auckland, the results were published in two publications

We are very pleased to announce the Open Access publication of our latest technical paper at the Chair of Construction Engineering and Management at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar