About us

Location	Addis Ababa , Ethiopia	Funding Type	Private
No of Students	NA	Establishment	University
Founded In	1954	Estimated Cost of Living	3272 ETB
Address	Ethiopia

he African countries show globally the highest degree of population growth. The Ethiopian capital is through birth rate and migration among the fastest growing cities. The Ethiopian government has invested increasingly in infrastructure, including new universities, and has decided to build new urban centers, including new towns during the last years, but still Ethiopia has the smallest number of Schools dedicated to the built environment per capital in the world.

Therefore, there is a high demand of highly educated Architects, Planners and Construction Managers; a high demand of design models based on the Ethiopian context for new towns, new public space and new public facilities, incl. urban landscape and recycling; a high demand of scientific and applied research concerning indigenous construction material, building technology, housing and infrastructure, incl. teaching material; a high demand of good governance and best practice regulations in planning, construction and building....

Vision

The Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EI-ABC) will be a home for Architecture, Urbanism and Construction Technology and Management that is focused on educating professionals and providing university-level knowledge to serve Ethiopia’s needs. Therefore, the following missions are to be followed:

1. To educate prospective graduates, provide knowledge and develop skills in design, building technology, management, and planning for the field of architecture, the building industry, construction management, as well as city and town actors in the public and private sector.
2. To conduct technology-based applied research, projects and studies that are based on priorities that reflect the needs of the country, the regions, woredas, kebele and the private business.
3. To create an environment that is conducive to the cultivation of social skills and entrepreneur­ship among students and staff
4. To serve as a model for other educational institutions within the country and provide them with the necessary technological education and advanced training
5. To cooperate with all relevant stakeholders in promoting and developing local, regional and national technological know-how

Objectives

1. The new Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EI-ABC) shall be understood as an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the core disciplines relevant to the formation of design. Design is understood as a heuristic methodology of an integrative discipline.
   The ambition must be to promote future oriented strategies in Architecture and Architectural Design, Building Technology and Structural Design, Project and Construction Management, City Development and Urban Design, Urban Ecology and Landscape Design, as well as Cultural Heritage, History and Theory of Ethiopian Architecture that implement new capacities regarding the prospective development of Ethiopia and its professions in building.
2. EI-ABC shall become a model Institute and laboratory for excellence in teaching, learning, applied research and practice in the fields of architecture, building construction and city development. The academic work needs to introduce guidelines for the prospective development of Ethiopia into a technologically transformed, however, sustainable society, moving from academic to applied research. Design and Research as the key principles of the new institute will provide the umbrella for this laboratory.
3. EI-ABC shall be attractive in international university partnerships and networks.

Values

The following values should serve as the basis for EiABC:

Academic freedom and autonomy

The EiABC makes use of its academic freedom and institutional autonomy in order to improve its services and prevents its activities from being subjected to unnecessary or inappropriate interventions or misuse by its own members.

Social responsibility

The EiABC strives to reach its full potential in order to fulfill its social responsibility through the active participation of its students and staff in community development activities and public services. It aligns its activities in such a way that it is able to carry out the social responsibility bestowed upon it as a public institution. It serves society by bringing about positive changes and contributing to social transformation.

High levels of performance and professionalism

In order to ensure exemplary performance, EiABC operates with the highest possible standards of professionalism and ethics and seeks to provide high-quality services as efficiently as possible.

Committed leadership

EiABC leadership is dedicated to excellence and has a strong will to succeed and excel in its endeavors. It is characterized by the integrity and competence needed to accomplish its mission and a resolute focus on the strategic issues.

Inauguration

On March 6, 2010 the new Ethiopioan Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development was inaugurated with an official event, where the Ministries officially introduced the change management process to the public. In this event, the new leaders, the new organizational structures with all boards were introduced to students, staff and the interested public.