The collaborative project “Climate-Adapted Material-Research for the Socio-Economic Context of Vietnam” (CAMaRSEC) promotes sustainable construction practice in Vietnam based on interdisciplinary problem analysis and fundamental research and through the strategic development of basic infrastructures for research, characterization, training and education. 

            CAMaRSEC approaches sustainable building from five aspects of new residential buildings’ lifecycle: 1) residential context, 2) integrated design, 3) technical foundation, 4) construction quality and 5) resource utilization. The comprehensive inclusion of all these aspects will ensure an effective governance framework for sustainable building in Vietnam. 

            CAMaRSEC led by the University of Stuttgart was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the context of the CLIENT II initiative on “International Partnerships for Sustainable Innovations”, implemented within four years, from 2019 to 2023, with a total funding volume of about 2 million €.

            Finally, the CAMaRSEC sub-project of the University of Hamburg has initiated the foundation of the Competence Centre for Sustainable Building in Vietnam (CCSB-VN) based at Hanoi University of Civil Engineering. CCSB-VN meant as a cross-cutting institution, bundles trans-disciplinary expertise of sustainable building knowledge in Vietnam and transfers this innovative knowledge to diverse areas of scientific application, as well as to the public. The overall vision is to develop CCSB-VN as Vietnam’s leading think-and-do tank in terms of sustainable building. CCSB-VN is the publisher of the Handbook for Green Housing and Healthy Living. 

            The present 2nd edition of the Handbook has been funded by the University of Hamburg.