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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On 01 March 2020, the Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab started at Phnom Penh City Hall in the presence of the General Secretary of Phnom Penh Capital Administration, Vannak Seng, and several representatives from relevant departments of the municipal and of the district level. The Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab is a…
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On 27 March 2020, the Build4People representative Dr. Michael Waibel had the opportunity to introduce the Build4People project to His Excellency, Sao Sopheap, Secretary of State of the Cambodian Ministry of Environment and his delegation during a networking-lunch at Royal Palace Gate Hotel in Phnom Penh. This event was organised…
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The key aim of the Build4People exhibition „Green Building and Sustainable Neighbourhoods” is to raise awareness by reaching out to a wide public. Thereby, the exhibition with 32 posters in A1-Format provides information with easy-to-understand language and a focus on graphic visualisation and many photos. The main target group for…
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This video clip published via YouTube is a documentation of our successful Build4People project launch & conference event at Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 26 November 2019. The Phnom Penh based company Studio4 under the guidance of the Build4People consortium leader, the University of Hamburg, Germany, has produced it.…
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Project Manager Dr. Michael Waibel and Rolf Messerschmidt, CEO of EMP (Eble Messerschmidt Partner • Architekten und Stadtplaner PartGmbB), EMP staff Marcelo Rivera, Oliver Lambrecht and Petra Messerschmidt intensively discussed the content and design of the Build4People poster exhibition on “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhouds” at EMP’s office in Tübingen…
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On 12 December 2019, the principal investigator of the Build4People project, Dr. Michael Waibel, the local project manager Dr. Susanne Bodach, and the director of the Cambodian Institute of Urban Studies, Dr. Tep. Makathy met with representatives of Phnom Penh Capital Administration, first of all Tema Vichekal, Deputy General Secretary…
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On 04 December 2019 members of the Build4People team met with Dr. Chem Phalla, Acting Executive Director, Dr Eng Netra, Acting Director of Research Unit and Dr Chhem Rethy, former Acting Excecutive Director of the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), Cambodia’s leading independent development policy research think tank. During the…
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On 04 December 2019, the representative of the Build4People project, Dr. Michael Waibel, was given the opportunity to present the Build4People project to His Excellency Chea Sophara, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Cambodia. Special thanks go to Mr. Christian Berger, Ambassador of the…
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