Ethics and Follow up Main Department of the Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECC) in collaboration with the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (FEACC) is currently providing training to senior officials of the corporation under the theme ‘Ethical leadership for institutional successes’.

At the opening of the training, FEACC Deputy Commissioner Fekadu Seboka said, the training would have paramount importance to kindle anti-corruption struggle within the corporation as it is sector-focused and experience-centered.

Corporation CEO, Engineer Yonas Ayalew also said, the training would strengthen the fight against corruption as the training would equip the leadership with better understanding and information on the problem.

The on-going training, being provided in several rounds, would be given to other executive bodies and employees of the corporation.

Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECC) and the Manufacturing Industries Development Institute signed over 5.5 billion Birr project agreement that enable the former build 11 building blocks.

Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation Chief Executive Officer, Engineer Yonas Ayalew and Institute General Director Dr. Milkessa Jagema signed the agreement on 28 Jan 2025 on behalves of their organizations.

After signing the agreement, Engineer Yonas  said the corporation, which is ISO certified and utilizing up-to-date building technologies, will be able to construct the building blocks as per the schedule and at the expected quality standards.

Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECC) has been undertaking human resource development, installation of up to date construction technologies, developing several new software, manufacturing different kinds of construction inputs for local and foreign markets and forging joint ventures with various counterparts during the last few years.

The corporation has organized project management center of excellence in a bid to enable the firm utilize state of the art construction technologies in the execution of construction projects. It also created a Construction Projects Control Room (Situation Room) in order to monitor and evaluate projects from a single room.

The situation room, which integrate digital technologies with 16 knowledge areas of project management system, has enabled the corporation improve project management system to a higher level.

The control room, which comprises various task teams, is equipped with different types of construction related software including Daily Performance Progress Report (DPPR), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Fleet Management System that enable construction experts monitor the performance of the various construction projects of the corporation on daily basis.

Heavy vehicles maintenance department is one of the departments organized under the auspice of the Automotive and Machinery Maintenance Center of the Industry Management Sector of the corporation.

The Department, which is operating 24 hours a day, comprises three task teams including Heavy Vehicles Maintenance Team, Engine Maintenance Team, and Body Maintenance, Assembly and Painting Teams.   

The car painting work, which is being undertaken by latest car painting technology (Car Booth), is the first of its king in Ethiopia. The department also carried out car re-assembly and created a special kind of tourist vehicle (Safari Bus) with its own human resource capacity.

The external customers of the department have reached 22 to date including the Ministry of Irrigation and Lowlands, Fire and Disaster Risk Management Commission, Government Communications Service and FDRE House of Peoples’ Representatives.    

Light vehicle maintenance workshop is well-organized and has a capacity to repair/ maintaining 35 vehicles per day. The main objective of establishing this workshop is to stabilize the market by performing a wide range of maintenance works (Vehicles of different brands) in a cost-effective manner. This workshop will perform electrical and mechanical maintenance and will have 38 qualified technicians to do this maintenance. In addition to the corporation, the workshop is maintaining the vehicles of 10 different organizations at the moment and is carrying out repairs worth 3.5 to 4 million birr per month.

East Africa Holdings and the Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation signed an accord that enable the two parties cooperate in supply of construction inputs and other construction endeavors.

 East Africa Holdings Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Biru Woldie and Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation Chief Executive Officer, Engineer Yonas Ayalew signed the agreement on behalves of their organizations.

 After signing the accord, Mr. Biru said the agreement will enable the East African Holdings to supply quality and immense cement from National and Lemi Cement Manufacturing Factories as the corporation remains to be the largest construction firm in the country.

 East African Holdings would benefit a lot from the cooperation since the corporation has valuable experience in engineering fields, project management spheres, and in manufacturing construction inputs, the CEO said.

 Engineer Yonas also said the corporation, which has been utilizing national cement previously, will be able to construct concrete roads in the future since the installation of the Lemi Cement Manufacturing Factory curbed the scarcity of cement nationwide.