At the end of May, Prof. Bargstädt attended the annual conference of the Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and Management (GLF-CEM), which was hosted this year by the School of Engineering of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (https://glfcem.ufba.br/global-leadership-forum). The GLF-CEM is the international association of construction process and construction management professors worldwide; it has its counterpart in Germany with the BBB professors (Baubetrieb, Bauwirtschaft, Baumanagement).

As keynote speaker, Professor Bargstädt opened the conference with a presentation on "Academic Leadership in Construction Engineering and Management". This dealt with the responsibility that construction technologists and construction managers bear for an energy-conscious future of our society and for the upheavals in construction and resource management that this requires.

Over two days, workshops addressed topics related to the development of study curricula and cooperation between universities and industry. Finally, the participants discussed the question of how young academics from the CEM sector can be better prepared for management positions at universities and colleges.

The conference was followed by three seminar days with students and doctoral candidates of the engineering faculty of UFBA under the motto "When Social Science meets Lean and Digital Technologies". Prof. Bargstädt presented in his lecture "Replicating an Infrastructure Project for Professional BIM Education" a successfully completed research transfer project of our chair led by Professor Bargstädt and Ms. Mellenthin Filardo and in cooperation with the Thuringian State Office for Construction and Transport and local SMEs.

The stay in the state of Bahia also provided an impressive view of Brazil's social challenges with high population density in the urban areas and a large income gap between rich and poor.