The 13th International Conference on Sustainable Development of the Built Environment (SuDBE2025) was held in Cambridge and London, UK, in July 2025. Two PhD candidates from the Institute for Future Human Habitats (FHH) at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS), Li Kaisan and Zhang Yuhang, attended the conference at the University of Cambridges Robinson College with the support of a C Foundation Research Scholarship. During the conference, they presented their research f