Build4People team members presented about their project during the virtual annual conference of the Southeast Asia Working Group in the German Geographical Society (DGfG) on 25 June 2021. Dr Michael Waibel as overall Build4People coordinator, Dr Anke Blöbaum as leader of WP1 “Behaviour Change” and Prof Dr Jan Peter Mund…
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On 23 June 2021, the WP1 “Behaviour Change” Science Workshop took place. The main aim of this event was to introduce and to discuss the WP1 research plan and related activities and milestones during Build4People RD phase. This included an extensive introduction of the theoretical research approaches of WP1 to…
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On 10 June 2021, the Build4People Strategic Publication Planning Workshop took place. Participants were the German and the Cambodian research team members. This main objective of this event was to discuss and to develop a smart and coherent joint medium and long-term Build4People publication strategy thereby aiming to increase the…
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On 04 June 2021, the Build4People consortium leader Dr Michael Waibel, Hamburg University, and the WP#2 “Sustainable Building” Leader Dr Dirk Schwede, Stuttgart University, took part in the webinar „Regulatory Frameworks and the Role of Governments in Buildings Policy Development”, hosted by the ASEAN Centre for Energy and organised by…
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On 25 May 2021, the Office for Public Relations at Hamburg University published an official press release informing the general public and media representatives on the start of the four-year Research and Development phase of the Build4People project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Link…
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Today, about 25 members of the Build4People team from Germany and Cambodia discussed the preliminary results of a large-scale household survey among 500 households of the urban population of Phnom Penh. The rationale behind the survey was to learn more about the building user perspective in the context of resource…
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On 18 May 2021, the WP6 “Sustainable Urban Transformation” Science Workshop took place with about 60 participants. The main aim of this event was to discuss the WP6 research plan, its milestones and related activities during B4P Research and Development phase (2021-2025) to the local Cambodian research partners. Also, theoretical…
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On 12 May 2021, a first exchange took place with the project project “Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions in ASEAN (SMMR)“. This project funded by the German government is developing four knowledge products in the form of green papers and webinars on the topics of 1) Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans,…
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From the beginning of project funding, Build4People has disseminated information on its various activities and knowledge on the topic of sustainable buildings / urbanization via its social media channels such as YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. The latter has evolved into the medium with the strongest outreach. In the meantime, the…
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On 10 May 2021, Dr Michael Waibel and Ravi Jayaweera gave a presentation with the title “Cambodia’s Youth as Change Agents for a Sustainable Transformation? Experiences from the Build4People project”, as part of the public lecture series “Youth and Ageing in Southeast Asia”, organized by the Department of Languages and…
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