Wood is an increasingly demanded renewable resource and an important raw material for construction and materials. Demands are rising, with a growing attention for re-use and upcycling, opening up opportunities for new business models, empowered by the use of digital design and technologies. A KPI framework …

Across cities and urban regions in The Netherlands unusual collaborations emerge which aim to develop new circular business models that facilitate product and resource longevity through various upcycling strategies, such as reuse, repair, refurbish, repurpose and/or remanufacture. Municipalities, social …

Repurpose is becoming more popular as a circularity strategy. This circularity strategy is specifically promising in the case of furniture. One of the challenges of upscaling repurpose is the negative consumer perception of repurposed products. Studies up to date pertain to consumer perception of refurbished …

Metropolitan Cebu, the third largest agglomeration in the Philippines with a population of approximately 3 million, faces significant challenges in managing domestic wastewater and solid waste. This mismanagement has led to the pollution of its water bodies, including the Mahiga Creek and the Butuanon …

Construction industry and interior architecture are increasingly using wood, driving up demand and depleting wood resources. Yet large quantities of uncontaminated, high-quality material end up burned or downcycled into chipboard, because it is too costly to manually sort and process large volumes of …

Binnen het hoger onderwijs wint interne kennisdeling aan belang als manier om de kwaliteit van onderzoek, onderwijs en maatschappelijke impact te vergroten. Nu er steeds vaker in teams wordt samengewerkt, spelen onderzoekers daarin een sleutelrol. Tegelijkertijd is nog weinig bekend over welke factoren …

Stargazing Live! aims to capture the imagination of students with a combination of live and interactive planetarium lessons, real astronomical data, and lessons built around interactive knowledge representations . The lessons were created using a co-creation model and tackle concepts in the pre-university …

De digitale wereld ontwikkelt zich in een razendsnel tempo. Overheden, bedrijven en burgers worden dagelijks geconfronteerd met nieuwe technologieën, digitale processen en de regelgeving die daarmee gepaard gaat. Hoewel digitale regels vaak op nationaal, en meestal zelfs op Europees niveau worden opgesteld, …

This three-wave study examined relationships between preservice teachers’ diversity-related stress, teaching self-efficacy (TSE), and intentions to leave the profession. Participants (N = 386) from four Dutch teacher training programs completed surveys on diversity-related stress, intentions to leave, …