One of the most prominent newspapers in Cambodia, the Khmer Times, published an article informing the general public on various aspects of green buildings. This piece has been written by Dr Susanne Bodach, local coordinator of the Build4People project.
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Build4People’s Participation at 3rd Meeting of Sustainable Cities Technical Working Group hosted by National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD)
The third meeting of the inter-ministerial Sustainable Cities Technical Working Group (SCTWG) took place at Hotel Cambodiana, Phnom Penh, 06 August 2020. The SCTWG was established in 2019 with members from relevant government ministries and agencies, NGOs and civil organizations within Cambodia, and it is host under NCSD. The chief…
Continue ReadingSubmission of Build4People project proposal – RD phase
On 31 July 2020, our Build4People team successfully submitted the project proposal for the upcoming four-year Research and Development phase with the title “Build4People: Enhancing Quality of Life through Sustainable Urban Transformation”. Based on our experiences of the ongoing Definition phase and intensive internal discussions, we have been able to…
Continue ReadingSatellite classification of Urban Green Space in Phnom Penh 2020
The inner city is mostly covered by built-up areas and sealed surfaces and only sparse, strongly fragmented patches of urban green are visible. The brown areas indicate burned crops, which are land parcels where farmers practice peri-urban agricultural methods, underlying seasonal changes. It is obvious that the selected classifier partially…
Continue ReadingMonitoring urban green space in Phnom Penh (WP#4) towards a high resolution land cover classification of the urban green fabric
Sneak preview of ongoing research work in WP#4 Spatial analyses of cities require an extensive knowledge of the prevailing land cover. The practice of remote sensing allows researchers to record up-to-date datasets of land cover by carrying out a semi-automated land cover classification. In March 2020, the WP4 local research…
Continue ReadingAnalysis of the spatial distribution of the “Urban Heat Island” in Phnom Penh
Joint research of WP#4+WP#5: To study urban climate and the influence of building design on thermal comfort weather stations are installed in the city as well as in rural places. This is to evaluate the urban heat island effect. The instrumentation was set up from the Royal University Phnom Penh…
Continue ReadingVirtual Workshop “Green Economy in Practice”
From 2nd to 5th June 2020, the virtual workshop “Green Economy in Practice” was carried out by the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, on behalf of the EU-funded Erasmus+ project EGEA ”Enhancing Green Economy in 3 countries of Asia”. The main goal of the EGEA project is to promote “green” economy and sustainable…
Continue ReadingOnline Publication of the Build4People Exhibition 2020
Proud to announce that the final design of the Build4People Exhibition 2020 “Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods” has been published at flickr: Curator of the exhibition has been the team of Work Package #3 “Sustainable Neighbourhoods” EMP (Eble Messerschmidt & Partner) with support from the overall coordination at Hamburg University.…
Continue ReadingLong-term monitoring equipment installed as part of WP#2 measurement campaign
In collaboration and with the support of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia the measurement campaign was launched in March 2020, the monitoring equipment was installed and put into operation in 8 residential buildings in the metropolitan area of Phnom Penh. During our stay…
Continue ReadingPublication of the 4rth video clip of the Build4People project
This video clip published via YouTube is a documentation of our successful Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab at Phnom Penh City Hall, Cambodia, from 01-06 March 2020. The Phnom Penh based company Studio4 under the guidance of the Build4People consortium leader, the University of Hamburg, Germany, has produced it. More information…
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