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Build4People is very happy to announce that it has reached 100,000 views at its B4P YouTube channel.

Since the beginning of its very first research phase, Build4People has worked intensively on the public documentation of its manifold research work. This transparent approach of good scientific practice and visualization to provide state-of-the art science communication is a central transformative component of Build4People to facilitate science-society transfer and to increase awareness among relevant stakeholders in the field of sustainable building and sustainable neighbourhood development.
The B4P YouTube channel is a key instrument of the Build4People science communication: It generally provides documentation of our activities, of several webinars as well as our social marketing campaigns such as the B4P Online Exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers” and other communication formats such as the B4P Snapshot Interview Series.

A comprehensive overview of all videos published can be also found at our Build4People homepage, Press Media section.

We are really thrilled about this stunning success of our social media communication and are very more looking to continuing our efforts of science society tranfer.

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On occasion of the New Lunar Year 2026 of the Fire Horse, the whole Build4People team would like to kindly wish all of you health, happiness, and success, and that the new year might be a more peaceful and rewarding year for everyone.

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On 04 February 2026, there was a meaningful strategic exchange between leading representatives of Phnom Penh Capital Hall, among them H.E. Vannak Seng, Vice-Governor of Phnom Penh, and the Build4People project.

The main purpose of this meeting was to introduce about the transformative format of the so-called B4P Transition Manufactory, which shall take place in early March 2026 in cooperation with Phnom Penh Capital Hall and one of the leading real estate development companies of Cambodia, the TP Moral Group (TPMG).

Through the B4P Transition Manufactory we want to implement Performance-Based Design (PBD) which infuses our B4P TTB Sustainability Neighbourhood Criteria and Planning and Design guidelines.

Furthermore, we want to use it to develop alternative (digital) visions of sustainable urban development based on a real site, the Quay Mekong Riverfront City opposite Koh Norea.

The final aim is to present a dynamic parametric urban digital model which will get completed after the second B4P Transition Manufactory cycle in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Overall, the format of the Build4People Transition Manufactory is a significant capacity building tool which includes trainings in the use of digital urban planning tools and which also serves to convey a comprehensive understanding of urban sustainability. The local coordination of the training activities will be done by the Cambodian Institute for Urban Studies.

We are very much thrilled and sincerely hope that many engaged students from different universities, e.g. the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Norton University and the Royal University of Agriculture will join this collective endeavour.

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On 30 January 2026, the Vice-Governor of Phnom Penh, H.E. Vannak Senk, signed a so-called Project Implementation Agreement with the Build4People consortium lead, the University of Hildesheim.

After previous agreements with Cambodia’s largest university, the Royal University of Phnom Penh, the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, and the Cambodian Institute of Urban Studies, this was the last formal step to formalize Build4People’s cooperation with major Cambodian institutions during its concluding Implementation phase.

The core aim of the Project Implementation Agreement is to foster the digitalization of the B4P Transformation Toolbox as inter-active information-, public participation-, knowledge-, technology-, and learning platform supporting evidence-based data-driven decisions as well as scenario building towards sustainability and enhanced quality of life in urban Cambodia.

It also ensures the implementation of the follow-up format of B4P Ecocity Transition Lab series, the so-called B4P Transition Manufactory. Following the strategy of the so-called Twin Transformation this urban lab will facilitate Performance-Based Design (PBD) through infusing our B4P Transformation Toolbox Neighbourhood Evaluation Criteria and guidelines, to develop alternative (digital) visions of sustainable development based on a real urban development site and to conduct trainings in regard of the use of digital urban planning tools. Based on this, the final aim is to develop a parametric digital urban model, for the first time in Cambodia.