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On 10th February 2021, representatives of Build4People Work Package #1 “Behaviour Change”, Dr Anke Blöbaum and Annalena Becker and of Build4People Work Package #2 “Sustainable Building”, Dr Dirk Schwede and Christina Karagianni, held an informal exchange with Mathilde Driot and Chloe Deparis from the company Sevea Consulting, based in Phnom…

The Build4People team warmly welcomes the new team member Dr. Op Vanna from the Department of Psychology at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) in regard the upcoming RD phase. Together with Dr. Sok Serey he will work together with Work Package#1 “Behaviour Change”. Dr. Op Vanna holds a…

The Build4People team feels very much honored, that four members of our research consortium have been selected to join the editorial board of “Insight – The Cambodia Journal of Basic and Applied Research, (CJBAR)”. The selected team members are: Dr. Anke Blöbaum, Prof. Dr. Jan Peter Mund, Prof. Dr. Lutz…

We are very pleased to inform you that the Build4People exhibition “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods” has been enriched by another poster introducing a good practice example of a sustainable building, the We-House Baakenhafen project in Hamburg’s Hafencity, Germany. Build4People team member Eble Messerschmidt Partner (Work Package#3 “Sustainable Neighbourhoods”) has won…

On 21 January 2021, the Build4People Status Conference took place in the presence of H.E. Mr. Nuon Pharat, Vice Governor of Phnom Penh Capital Administration, Vannak Seng, General Director of Phnom Penh Capital Administration, Mr. Christian Berger, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia,…

On 12 January 2021, an online meeting took place of Build4People Work Package #5 “Urban Climate”. Prof. Dr. Lutz Katzschner, Sebastian Kupski from Institute for Climate and Energy Strategies (INKEK) and their research partners Bunleng Se, Dr. Nyda Chhinh and Dr. Daniel Choi from Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP)…

On 05 January 2021, a hybrid meeting took place with Vannak Seng, General Secretary of Phnom Penh Capital Administration (PPCA), Build4People’s key implementation partner, Dr Tep Makathy, General Director of the Cambodian Institute of Urban Studies (CIUS), Build4People’s main local project management partner, Dr Susanne Bodach, Build4People’s local project management…

Hereby, the whole Build4People team would like to wish all of you Merry Christmas 2020 and a happy and successful New Year 2021. The last year was full of unexpected challenges and put a lot of constraints on our daily work. Nevertheless, we have been able to organise successful events…

On 18 December 2020, a first online meeting was held with representatives from all 10 projects funded as part of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s initiative Sustainable Development of Urban Regions, acronym: SURE. 8 projects are located in the Southeast Asian region, among them the Build4People project…

Build4People team members provide input to University of New South Wales online forum: Housing in rapidly urbanising South East Asian cities, 30 November 2020. This forum sits within the UNSW – Cambodia Professional Placement Program (virtual). In small cross-cultural teams, architecture students will focus on investigating and proposing approaches to…