Build4People

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…

On 22 October 2024, Dr. Michael Waibel, Build4People representative, Dr. Anke Blöbaum, leader of Build4People Work Package “Behaviour Change”, and Nuria Roig, Research Associate of the Build4People Work Package “Sustainable Neighbourhoods”, met with leading representatives of UN-Habitat Cambodia to discuss a potential strategic collaboration during the Build4People Implementation phase from…

On 29 September 2024, Prof Dr Tep Makathy, Dean of Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia (FAUP-PUC) and General Director of the Cambodian Institute of Urban Studies (CIUS), gave at lecture about the process to achieve sustainable urban neighbourhood planning and design at AmCam Exchange,…

On 19 September 2024, the Build4People Work Package “Sustainable Building” led by the Technical School of Applied Sciences Lübeck conducted a Science Workshop at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. This Science Workshop was jointly prepared by the Build4People Work Package “Sustainable Building” members Prof. Dr. Dirk Schwede and Christina…

On 19 September 2024, the Build4People team member Andreas Deuß presented at a research symposium as part of the 53th Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) in Vienna. He presented the results of a study investigating individuals’ intentions to adopt rooftop solar in Phnom Penh. The results were based on data…

On 31 August 2024, about five years after its launching, the B4P Facebook page transgressed the number of 4,000 followers. This is a great success of our social media dissemination. In general, to facilitate science-society transfer and to increase awareness among relevant stakeholders in the field of sustainable building and…

On 15 August 2024, there was a fruitful exchange meeting with leading representatives of Phnom Penh Capital Hall, among them the newly elected Vice-Governor of Phnom Penh, H.E. Vannak Seng. The meeting was about the strategic preparation of the envisaged Implementation Phase from 2025-2027. Our team has been able to…

The main Build4People communication platform is our Build4People Facebook page which has two main purposes: We use it, 1) to provide updates about our activities and 2) as a capacity building tool to inform on good practice examples worldwide in the field of urban sustainability. Since its establishment in August…