Prof. Dr. Markus König is awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal from the Central Association of the German Building Industry (ZDB). It is the most important award in the field of Computing in Engineering.

As holder of the Chair of Computing in Engineering in the faculty of Civil- and Environmental Engineering, Prof. Dr.-Ing König is also part of the teaching staff of Computational Engineering. He is giving lectures in “Modern Programming Concepts in Engineering”, “Building Information Modeling (BIM)”, "Machine Learning", "Artificial Intelligence (AI)", “Design Optimization” and “Parallel Computing”.

The association recognizes Prof. König's achievements in the digitalization of construction engineering, and especially the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Germany.

The ZDB Konrad Zuse Medal has been awarded alternately since 1981 by the ZDB and the GI to personalities who have made outstanding contributions to computing in engineering or computing in general. The aim of the award is to preserve the merits of computer science pioneer Konrad Zuse, to promote the use of the latest information and communication technologies in construction and, last but not least, to make computer science visible to a wider public.

The medal will be awarded on November 17, 2020 at the 13th German Obermeistertag in Berlin.

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