Build4People

On 28 September 2021, the Build4People Research Conference took place reaching out to a wide public. At first, the recent signing of a MoU between Phnom Penh Capital Administration (PPCA) and Build4People got appreciated through welcome addresses of HE, the Vice-Governor of PPCA, Nuon Pharat, of the German Ambassador in…

On 22 September 2021, the European Chamber of Commerce of Cambodia did organize a joint webinar with Build4People as co-partner. The webinar title was “Green Building Certification as Driver for a Sustainable Transition of the Real Estate Sector”. Thereby, the focus was on how to raise construction quality through green…

On 16 September 2021, Build4People joined a session at the TRIALOG Annual Conference 2021. The session was organized by Kai Michael Dietrich, Technical School of Applied Sciences Lübeck, member of the so-called accompanying project of the SURE (Sustainable Development of Urban Regions) programme, funded by the German Federal Ministry of…

On 18 August 2021, the Build4People project, represented by Hamburg University, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Phnom Capital Administration (PPCA) which is the most important implementation partner of Build4People. This MoU will set the basis for the application of the empirical research results of the Build4People work packages…

We are happy to announce that a podcast has been recently published about “Urban Planning: Building the future of Phnom Penh” through Anakut.  Anakut is a podcast about Cambodia, where it stands today and where it’s moving into the future, edited by the Southeast Asia Globe. In each episode, guests discuss…

The Build4People Team was invited to provide feedback on the Green Building certification scheme developed by the Cambodian National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD) during a three-day stakeholder consultation workshop, which took place from 0305 August 2021.  Government agencies, international donors, private sector representatives and research institutes participated at the online…

On 30 July 2021, the WP2 “Sustainable Building” Science Workshop took place. It was attended by representatives from Stuttgart University, the leader of the Build4People Work Package #2 “Sustainable Building” and by its local collaboration partners from the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC). Further, it got attended by the…

On 27 July and 28 July 2021, the Build4People team members Dr Michael Waibel, Hamburg University, and Dr Dirk Schwede, Stuttgart University, got invited to join two modules as plenary discussion speakers of the training programme under the auspice of the Singapore-IEA Regional Training Hub. On 27 July 2021, the…

On 29 June 2021, the WP3 “Sustainable Neighbourhoods” Science Workshop took place. It was attended by representatives from Eble Messerschmidt Partner (EMP), the leader of the Build4People Work Package #3 “Sustainable Neighbourhoods” in collaboration with Andreas von Zadow from von Zadow International, representatives from the School of Architecture and Urban…

Build4People team members presented about their project during the virtual annual conference of the Southeast Asia Working Group in the German Geographical Society (DGfG) on 25 June 2021. Dr Michael Waibel as overall Build4People coordinator, Dr Anke Blöbaum as leader of WP1 “Behaviour Change” and Prof Dr Jan Peter Mund…