Proud to announce that the final design of the Build4People Exhibition 2020 “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods” has been published at flickr: Curator of the exhibition has been the team of Work Package #3 “Sustainable Neighbourhoods” EMP (Eble Messerschmidt & Partner) with support from the overall coordination at Hamburg University.…
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In collaboration and with the support of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia the measurement campaign was launched in March 2020, the monitoring equipment was installed and put into operation in 8 residential buildings in the metropolitan area of Phnom Penh. During our stay…
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This video clip published via YouTube is a documentation of our successful Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab at Phnom Penh City Hall, Cambodia, from 01-06 March 2020. The Phnom Penh based company Studio4 under the guidance of the Build4People consortium leader, the University of Hamburg, Germany, has produced it. More information…
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Build4People through Hamburg University supports the publication of the Architectural Guide Phnom Penh published by Moritz Henning and Walter Koditek because we firmly believe that it contributes to the re-discovery of the values of bio-climatic architecture much needed to increase sustainability practices in Cambodia’s construction sector. That is why we…
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On 10 March 2020, the Build4People Research Workshop on “Urban Quality of Life” took place at the Cambodia-Korea Cooperation Center on the campus of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). The main objective of this workshop was to discuss the Build4People Household Survey which is the most important empirical research…
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Very intense but fruitful meeting at Phnom Penh City Hall to discuss further cooperation within Build4People project. This is a a cumbersome procedure but much needed for a successful future joint work. The patience of all of the representatives of Phnom Penh Capital Administration (PPCA), first of all Vannak Seng,…
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On 06 March 2020 the first results of the Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab got presented at the Phnom Penh City Hall. In the presence of the Vice-Governor of Phnom Penh Capital Administration, H.E. Nuon Pharath, and the General Secretary of Phnom Penh Capital Administration, Vannak Seng, the Build4People introduced the…
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At March 2020 a meeting took place in the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), followed by two more online meetings that established the terms of collaboration between WP#2 “Sustainable Building” and the schools of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Architecture of ITC. An important step in establishing this collaboration…
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During field research in March 2020, our team, WP4 Urban Green as part of the Build4People project, surveyed and verified 630 out of proposed 724 “ground-truth points” randomly distributed over the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, testing the performance of an innovative mobile app. A ground truth point is a…
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META House was packed during the opening of the first edition of our Build4People exhibition on “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods” on 03 March 2020. Particular thanks go to the numerous representatives of the Phnom Penh City Hall, who joined this event, first of all to the General Secretary Vannak…
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