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Dear friends and colleagues, we would like to take the opportunity to kindly thank you for all the tremendous support we have received during the past year in challenging times. We appreciate this so much in regard of our joint journey to promote more sustainable pathways in the field of…

On 18 December 2024 the Build4People Work Package “Urban Climate” Science Workshop with the topic “Microclimate Analyses” took place between the German team members Prof. Dr. Lutz Katzschner, Dr. Jannalisa Hahne and Sebastian Kupski, all from INKEK (Institute for Climate and Energy Concepts), and the Cambodian research research partners, Bunleng…

On 06 December 2024, Build4People team members provided multi-disciplinary insights into the potentials of using solar energy to support a sustainable urban transformation at the AmCam Exchange in Phnom Penh. The lecture got prepared and moderated by Prof Dr Tep Makathy, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning…

On 05 December 2024, there was a Technical Meeting with the Phnom Penh Capital Hall (PPCH) which is the most important implementation partner of the Build4People project. In this regard, we support PPCH to tackle the so-called Twin Transformation of digitalization and sustainability. Thereby, we aim to use the potential of…

On 4 December 2024, the Science Workshop “Urban Quality of Life and the Build4People Citizen Science APP” jointly prepared and implemented by the Build4People Work Packages “Behaviour Change”, “Urban Green Infrastructures” and “Sustainable Urban Transformation” took place at the CKCC (Cambodia-Korea Cooperation Center) at Royal University of Phnom Penh. The main…

Build4People is happy to announce that Ms. Agnes Hütte, a student of Environmental Psychology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, has received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to do research for her master’s thesis (supervised by Dr. Anke Blöbaum, Leader of Build4People Work Package “Behaviour…

On 12 November 2024, Bunleng Se, Group Leader of Climate Change and Water Group at the Department of Geography and Land Management of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) and Build4People Work Package “Urban Climate” member, was invited to give a presentation on “The Role of Urban Climate Map…

On 08 November 2024, Dr. Michael Waibel represented the collaborative SURE project Build4People in the panel discussion “Collaborative Alliances for Sustainable Urban Regions (SURE) – German-Asian transdisciplinary research” at the German Pavilion at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt. The session got moderated by Dr. Sarah Vogl and…

We are very happy to inform you on a recently published video clip at our Build4People YouTube channel. It is about the graphic storytelling of the methodology and outcomes of the first Build4People Sustainable Building Arena (SBA) at Impact Hub Phnom Penh back in 2022. The first SBA served to…

On 06 November 2024, Dr. Michael Waibel, Build4People representative, had the honor to join a panel discussion facilitated by Agota Barabas and Dr. Katharina Borgmann from HafenCity University Hamburg during an Urban Library event at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) in Cairo, Egypt. It served to introduce about the SURE…