【Participants】28 members

【Meeting type】Zoom

Prof. Kubota and Dr. Ariel were invited to the Seminar on Sustainable Housing, Building and Cities held by JUBH at Jakarta during Jan. 14-15th, which was a big event with several VIPs such as from Government.

Hybrid experimental house in Tegal: The Groundbreaking was held on Jan. 17th, which was also a good event with several VIPs such as PU Deputy Minister who made a comment that DeLCA project was one of commitment of Indonesian Goverment, which was published in several News Papers/Web Sites. The construction period was updated to Jan.2025 to Jan.-Feb.2026.

Springer Book: Approved and the kick-off meeting was held on Feb.19th, then the timelines of actions to be announced from the Editor.

AIJ organized session for 2025 conference in Sep. at Kyushu Univ.: Abstruct (by next week 28th) and Full paper (by Apr. 2nd) under Low-Carbon Affordable Houses in the Global South towards Paris Agreement.

UNEP Passive cooling action group: Established last year to set the Guidelines for Global South/ASEAN. DeLCA project was found fully matching to this UN action and was introduced by JICA. Prof. Kubota will join in the ASEAN Passive Cooling Guideline as an advisort board, and would like to invite other project members from Universities and Companies.

The latest Reserach Progress and plans were explained in all areas.