Markus Boden wins IT young talent competition
As part of the world's leading trade fair "BAU 2025" in Munich, young talents from the construction industry were honored by the RKW Competence Center on January 14, 2025. One of the award winners is Markus Boden, research assistant at the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He impressed the jury with a free digitalization check for small and medium-sized companies in the construction industry and won first place in the category "Construction Management.
Markus Boden completed his studies in Management for Construction, Real Estate and Infrastructure at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In his master's thesis, he developed a free tool that provides small and medium-sized enterprises and public organizations with step-by-step support in the digitalization of their processes. The tool is based on an online questionnaire that identifies optimization potential and illustrates the degree of digitalization using a traffic light system.
The prizewinner is a research assistant at the Chair of Construction Engineering and Management and at the Chair of Transport System Planning and works at the EDIH within this framework. The European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar supports female entrepreneurs in their digital transformation. As part of a European network, it offers further training, exchange opportunities and advice on financing and business models in areas such as mobility and logistics, IT infrastructure and software, construction, energy and resources, tourism, industrial production and health.
»Auf IT gebaut – Bauberufe mit Zukunft«
The RKW Competence Center competition, which has been running since 2002, is under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK). It is sponsored by the social partnerships of the construction industry and supported by numerous sponsors and media partnerships. The entries submitted impressively demonstrate how young talents from the construction industry are actively shaping the future of the industry using digital methods and artificial intelligence.
Winners of the " Auf IT gebaut " 2025 award in the field of construction management
1st place
Markus Boden, Bauhaus University Weimar
"Digitalization on the test bench: Digital Maturity Assessments for BIM in infrastructure"
2nd place
Valentin Resapow, TU Hamburg
"Construction site maps for the automation and visualization of construction sites"
3rd place
Sebastian Esser, TU Munich
"Incremental version control of distributed object models in civil engineering"
Further information on the competition: https://www.aufitgebaut.de/
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