On 28 October 2020, an inception meeting organized by UNDP jointly with UNEP took place, which is the first of a series of activities to support Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) in developing a national roadmap to achieve zero-emissions and resilient buildings and construction in…
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We are proud to announce that the Khmer language edition of Build4People exhibition on “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods” has been published online at flickr. Past project experience has shown that by means of the use of Khmer language a much larger audience can be reached and be made aware…
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Always seeking to push for a better sustainability performance, the Build4People team member Eble Messerschmidt Partner (Work Package#3 “Sustainable Neighbourhoods”) wins a prestigious competition with an outstanding sustainable design. The project we-house Baakenhafen in Hamburg’s Hafencity, which is part of the Build4People Exhibition “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods”, features an…
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One of the most prominent newspapers in Cambodia, the Khmer Times, published an article informing the general public on various aspects of green buildings. This piece has been written by Dr Susanne Bodach, local coordinator of the Build4People project.
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The third meeting of the inter-ministerial Sustainable Cities Technical Working Group (SCTWG) took place at Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, 06 August 2020. The SCTWG was established in 2019 with members from relevant government ministries and agencies, NGOs and civil organizations within Cambodia, and it is host under NCSD. The chief…
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On 31 July 2020, our Build4People team successfully submitted the project proposal for the upcoming four-year Research and Development phase with the title “Build4People: Enhancing Quality of Life through Sustainable Urban Transformation”. Based on our experiences of the ongoing Definition phase and intensive internal discussions, we have been able to…
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The inner city is mostly covered by built-up areas and sealed surfaces and only sparse, strongly fragmented patches of urban green are visible. The brown areas indicate burned crops, which are land parcels where farmers practice peri-urban agricultural methods, underlying seasonal changes. It is obvious that the selected classifier partially…
Continue ReadingSneak preview of ongoing research work in WP#4 Spatial analyses of cities require an extensive knowledge of the prevailing land cover. The practice of remote sensing allows researchers to record up-to-date datasets of land cover by carrying out a semi-automated land cover classification. In March 2020, the WP4 local research…
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Joint research of WP#4+WP#5: To study urban climate and the influence of building design on thermal comfort weather stations are installed in the city as well as in rural places. This is to evaluate the urban heat island effect. The instrumentation was set up from the Royal University Phnom Penh…
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From 2nd to 5th June 2020, the virtual workshop “Green Economy in Practice” was carried out by the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, on behalf of the EU-funded Erasmus+ project EGEA ”Enhancing Green Economy in 3 countries of Asia”. The main goal of the EGEA project is to promote “green” economy and sustainable…
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