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Published: 27 May 2025

Congratulations Dr.-Ing. Muluken Tilahun Desbalo

Under the title:

“Enhancing Public Building Maintenance Practice in Ethiopia by Applying Adopted Methods of State-of-the-Art Digitization”

the work contributes to the further development of facility management (FM) in developing regions - with a particular focus on Ethiopia. The research focuses on optimizing the life cycle of public buildings through digital methods, including

  • Development of a maturity model for FM with Fuzzy-DEMATEL
  • Integration of building information modeling (BIM) into existing FM processes
  • Prioritization of information requirements with fuzzy AHP
  • Design of a web-based evaluation tool for FM maturity levels

The interdisciplinary work was supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Bargstädt (Bauhaus University Weimar) and Assoc. Prof. Asregidew Kassa Woldesenbet (Addis Ababa University).

Details about the thesis: https://doi.org/10.25643/dbt.65964

More about the Chair of Construction Management and Construction Processes:
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/bau-und-umwelt/professuren/baubetrieb-und-bauverfahren/

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