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Build4People is happy to announce the publication of the second Build4People Snapshot Interview introducing about Annika Freudenberger from Impact Hub Phnom Penh, a social enterprise that supports entrepreneurs, youth leaders, content creators, and other innovators across Cambodia to kickstart and scale their impact. Annika’s academic background is in urban planning,…

Build4People is thrilled to announce the 6th video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Thary Vorn, CEO & co-founder of SUDrain Co., Ltd.  Her company SUDrain provides innovative and sustainable wastewater treatment solutions by recycling coconut waste into biofilm filters. This innovative easy-to-install technology delivers highly efficient pollutant…

On 29 March 2025, the Build4People Work Package “Urban Green Infrastructures” successfully held a Science Workshop at the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA), Phnom Penh. The workshop provided an interdisciplinary platform for knowledge exchange among experts, scholars, and young researchers from Cambodia and abroad. Its main focus was on sustainable…

Build4People is very proud to announce the 5th video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Saroth Tonn and his family. Saroth is a fierce bicycle 🚲 enthusiast who is regularly organizing bicycle trips for his family and his friends in and around Phnom Penh. In his opinion, all mothers and…

Build4People is very proud to announce the 4rth video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Kongngy Hav. He is the founder of the social enterprise “My Dream Home” to make affordable housing available in Cambodia, thereby introducing an interlocking brick system made from compressed soil and cement. 💡🧱🧩👷🏽‍♀️💚🇰🇭 These eco-friendly…

This first clip of the B4P Snapshot Interview Series was done on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 08 March 2025.  Build4People interviewed Ms. Sokunlanita May, who founded the W.A.E. – Women in Architecture and Engineering, to strengthen the role of women in Cambodia’s building industry. In the…

Build4People is very proud to announce the 3rd video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Chansopheak Hem, creator of the Pteah Chas Community and founder of the Phnom Penh Houseplant Festival 💡🪴💚🌸🇰🇭. Promoting environmentally friendly behavior and sustainable entrepreneurship must be regarded as key challenges of Cambodia. The vivid economic development of this…

The Build4People project is happy to announce that The Cambodia Journal of Basic and Applied Research (CJBAR), Vol. 6 No. 2 (2024), has published an article about the Science Workshop “Urban Quality of Life and the Build4People Citizen Science App” at Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) within its NEWS…

On 27 February 2025, the Build4People Work Package “Sustainable Building” leader Prof Dr Schwede presented during a networking session focused on embodied carbon in buildings, organized by HEAT International as part of the Asia Low-Carbon Building Transition (ALCBT) initiative at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) in Phnom Penh.…

On 26 February 2025, the Build4People project, represented by its Work Package “Sustainable Building”, led by Prof Dr Dirk Schwede and supported by the research associate Christina Karagianni, both from the Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck, organized an Architecture Walk & Dialogue: Gender Mainstreaming in Public Space workshop. It…