Digital educational escape rooms (DEERs) can provide an engaging gamified learning experience for students that is easy to use and sustainable for teachers. Though well-established in the STEM fields, where escape rooms often call for students to apply procedural skills, escape rooms are also used across …

Charging infrastructure in neighborhoods is essential for inhabitants who use electric vehicles. The development of public charging infrastructure can be complex because of its dependency on local grid conditions, the responsibility to prepare for anticipated fleet growth policies, and the implicit biases …

Purpose The aim of this study is to provide insights into how the purchasing function can increase the maturity of smart maintenance management (SMM) in construction clients by (1) assessing current SMM maturity and (2) developing an adapted service triad for purchasing's meaningful involvement in SMM. …

Research finds that the global market value of cargo bikes will hit 2.4 billion euros by 2031. Analysts with Future Market Insights assessing the growth of cargo bikes have placed the parcel courier industry as a key buyer of electric cargo bikes, forecasting that 43 per cent of sales could go to this …

With increase in awareness of the risks posed by climate change and increasingly severe weather events, attention has turned to the need for urgent action. While strategies to respond to flooding and drought are well-established, the effects - and effective response - to heat waves is much less understood. …

This research presents a case study exploring the potential for demand side flexibility at a cluster of university buildings. The study investigates the potential of a collection of various electrical devices, excluding heating and cooling systems. With increasing penetration of renewable electricity …

Nederlandse gemeenten hebben te maken met een grote bouwopgave. Dit zorgt voor veel voertuigbewegingen van en naar bouwprojecten. In 2021 werd er meer dan 250 miljoen ton bouwmaterialen vervoerd in Nederland. Daarmee is de bouw de grootste vervoerende sector in tonnen. Op de snelwegen transporteert één …

Verouderd isolatieglas eindigt vaak in relatief laagwaardige toepassingen als glaswol of verpakkingsmateriaal. Zonde, als je bedenkt hoeveel energie het kost om glas te maken. De Faculteit Techniek van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) onderzoekt samen met bedrijven strategieën voor hergebruik. Onderzoekers …

The liveability of cities worldwide is under threat by the predicted increase in intensity and frequency of heatwaves and the absence of a clear spatial overview of where action to address this. Heat stress impairs vital urban functions (Böcker and Thorsson 2014), hits the local economy (Evers et al. …