Build4People

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…

On 26 November 2020, the Build4People project organized a virtual workshop dealing with the conceptualization of urban quality of life, see agenda. Urban Quality of Life (UQoL) is regarded as the common link of Build4People’s scientific-conceptual, analytical and normative research and it is considered to be the general basis for…

The Build4People project is proud to support the Khmer language edition of the Architectural Guide Phnom Penh which is regarded as a key publication to disseminate knowledge on sustainable building types in Cambodia. As part of this sponsorship the Build4People project will receive 200 special edition copies to be distributed…

To demonstrate care about health issues in times of the global corona pandemic the Build4People project has commissioned the production of nose and mouth protection masks. These masks will be distributed among the researchers and supporters of the Build4People project as well among relevant local stakeholders. Of course, the incorporation…

On 28 October 2020, an inception meeting organized by UNDP jointly with UNEP took place, which is the first of a series of activities to support Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) in developing a national roadmap to achieve zero-emissions and resilient buildings and construction in…

We are proud to announce that the Khmer language edition of Build4People exhibition on “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods” has been published online at flickr. Past project experience has shown that by means of the use of Khmer language a much larger audience can be reached and be made aware…

Always seeking to push for a better sustainability performance, the Build4People team member Eble Messerschmidt Partner (Work Package#3 “Sustainable Neighbourhoods”) wins a prestigious competition with an outstanding sustainable design. The project we-house Baakenhafen in Hamburg’s Hafencity, which is part of the Build4People Exhibition “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods”, features an…