On March, 27^th, 2007, the  EiABC Student Council in collaboration with the students of the 2017 graduating class arranged to visit the victims of the Koshe landslide. They will offer their condolences to the survivors and will share what they have with those who lost their families.

The death toll from the garbage dump landslide at Koshe is said to be around 46 people with several dozen still missing. The landslide occurred on March, 11^th, when a section of the dump collapsed onto houses built at the toe of the slope.  The majority of fatalities are reported to be women and children. 

The Water Resilient Green Cities in Africa (WGA) is an international research project being conducted by the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC) of Addis Ababa, Institute of Human Settlement Studies of Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam and Copenhagen University of Denmark.

One of the expected outcomes of the WGA project is to come up with a catchment based stormwater management for Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam. Accordingly, the WGA team of EiABC developed a "Landscape based stormwater management strategy for Jemo River catchment". In order to present the draft strategy to city level and local level stakeholders of Addis Ababa and get comments and input, the WGA team of EiABC conducted a stakeholder workshop on February 17, 2017 at Ghion hotel.

40 experts from various offices of Addis Ababa city administration, Nefas Silak Lafto and Kolfe Keranyo sub-cities and some woredas of the two sub-cities took part at the workshop. Dr. Ephrem G/Mariam , Deputy Scientific Director of EiABC made a welcome speech and Ato Yonas Ayalew, head of the Addis Ababa Construction Bureau officially open the workshop.

Dr. Kumelachew Yeshitela, coordinator of the WGA project presented the research undertakings of the WGA project and the methodology followed for developing the strategy development. Ato Abraham Workneh, city researcher at WGA, presente the proposed landscape based stormwater management (LSM) bio-physical elements. Ato Liku Workalemahu, a PhD candidate and Dr. Ketema Abebe, city researcher, presented the implementation mechanisms of the proposed LSM elements.

The workshop participants were then divided in to two groups and discussed and came up with suggestions and inputs for finalizing the strategy document.

On 11th March 2017 EiABC will once again be graduating a total of 202 students. 

The Materials Research and Testing Centre (MRTC) is ambitious in up grading its services to respond to the infrastructure development technological advancement and time bound demand. To fulfill such selfesteemed market driven capacity building the human and the machine /equipment efficiency coupled with wellacclaimed services badly needs a customer satisfaction oriented readiness.

With the above in mind, the Centre entered an agreement with MAFECON PLC for the purpose of machine and equipment repair, routine service and subsequent training of the technical staff as well as preparing technical specification document for the purchase of a geo-technical drilling rig.As a result, though through many ups and downs with regard to availability of spares for the items to be repaired and the time needed to acquire the supplements some success are achieved as enumerated below.

Service, Maintenance, Repair and Training