Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace research is still very fragmented and spread across multiple disciplines in academia. There are several books on the market related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a theoretical and practical discussion across multiple theories from different fields of studies. Therefore, workplace researchers are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be studied. A lot of knowledge is lost between disciplines, and sadly, many insights do not reach workplace managers in practice. Therefore, this new book series is started by associate professor Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and postdoc researcher Vitalija Danivska (Aalto University, Finland) as editors, published by Routledge. It is titled ‘Transdisciplinary Workplace Research and Management’ because it bundles important research insights from different disciplinary fields and shows its relevance for both academic workplace research and workplace management in practice. The books will address the complexity of the transdisciplinary angle necessary to solve ongoing workplace-related issues in practice, such as knowledge worker productivity, office use, and more strategic workplace management. In addition, the editors work towards further collaboration and integration of the necessary disciplines for further development of the workplace field in research and in practice. This book series is relevant for workplace experts both in academia and industry. This first book in the series focuses on the employee as a user of the work environment. The 21 theories discussed and applied to workplace design in this book address people’s ability to do their job and thrive in relation to the office workplace. Some focus more on explaining why people behave the way they do (the psychosocial environment), while others take the physical and/or digital workplace quality as a starting point to explain employee outcomes such as health, satisfaction, and performance. They all explain different aspects for achieving employee-workplace alignment (EWA) and thereby ensuring employee thriving. The final chapter describes a first step towards integrating these theories into an overall interdisciplinary framework for eventually developing a grand EWA theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003128830, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
MULTIFILE
The IMPULS-2020 project DIGIREAL (BUas, 2021) aims to significantly strengthen BUAS’ Research and Development (R&D) on Digital Realities for the benefit of innovation in our sectoral industries. The project will furthermore help BUas to position itself in the emerging innovation ecosystems on Human Interaction, AI and Interactive Technologies. The pandemic has had a tremendous negative impact on BUas industrial sectors of research: Tourism, Leisure and Events, Hospitality and Facility, Built Environment and Logistics. Our partner industries are in great need of innovative responses to the crises. Data, AI combined with Interactive and Immersive Technologies (Games, VR/AR) can provide a partial solution, in line with the key-enabling technologies of the Smart Industry agenda. DIGIREAL builds upon our well-established expertise and capacity in entertainment and serious games and digital media (VR/AR). It furthermore strengthens our initial plans to venture into Data and Applied AI. Digital Realities offer great opportunities for sectoral industry research and innovation, such as experience measurement in Leisure and Hospitality, data-driven decision-making for (sustainable) tourism, geo-data simulations for Logistics and Digital Twins for Spatial Planning. Although BUas already has successful R&D projects in these areas, the synergy can and should significantly be improved. We propose a coherent one-year Impuls funded package to develop (in 2021): 1. A multi-year R&D program on Digital Realities, that leads to, 2. Strategic R&D proposals, in particular a SPRONG/sleuteltechnologie proposal; 3. Partnerships in the regional and national innovation ecosystem, in particular Mind Labs and Data Development Lab (DDL); 4. A shared Digital Realities Lab infrastructure, in particular hardware/software/peopleware for Augmented and Mixed Reality; 5. Leadership, support and operational capacity to achieve and support the above. The proposal presents a work program and management structure, with external partners in an advisory role.
Nauwkeurige en snelle detectie van verontreinigingen in voedselproducten is een noodzakelijk maar vaak lastig en technisch ingewikkeld proces. Huidige gouden standaard methoden zijn vooral gebaseerd op nauwkeurige maar dure lab technieken die verontreinigingen kunnen detecteren in verschillende samples. Snellere en goedkopere beschikbare alternatieve technieken bestaan veelal uit dipstick methoden die onvoldoende nauwkeurig zijn en slechts één stof kunnen detecteren. De recente fipronil-affaire laat nogmaals zien dat, ondanks de enorme technologische vooruitgang in detectie technologie, er nog steeds een grote behoefte is aan goedkope, snelle en betrouwbare tests voor het routinematige screenen van voedselproducten. De zuivelindustrie is zeer geïnteresseerd in een snelle, handzame en kosten-effectieve methode om verontreinigingen zoals antibiotica en bacteriën in melk, wei en babyvoeding te detecteren, omdat de huidige standaard detectie methoden, die zij gebruiken, duur en zeer tijds- en arbeids-intensief zijn. Het duurt meestal uren tot dagen voordat een betrouwbaar resultaat is verkregen. Een snellere analyse van de melk bespaart enorme kosten die nu gemaakt worden met het vernietigen van grote hoeveelheden melk (waar sporen van antibiotica worden gevonden) als gevolg van de late beschikbare uitslag. Daarnaast resulteert een snellere analyse in een snellere vrijgave voor de distributie van melkproducten en draagt zo bij tot directe besparingen in operationele kosten. In samenwerking met een aantal MKB-bedrijven en andere relevante partners zal Saxion in dit project een draagbare demonstrator realiseren voor snelle, handzame en multiplexe detectie van antibiotica zoals tetracyclines in melk, gebaseerd op een multikanaals fotonische sensor prototype.. Verschillende bestaande innovatieve technologieën zoals lab-on-a-chip, microfluidica, inkjet-printing en geïntegreerde fotonische sensoren zullen in een demonstrator geïntegreerd worden om het gestelde doel te bereiken. De draagbare demonstrator is een eerste stap richting een handheld device dat in staat is om ter plaatse, zoals bij melkveehouderijen en melkfabrieken, antibiotica in melk snel en nauwkeurig te kunnen detecteren.
In the coming four years, the Hedwige-Prosperpolder in the Schelde estuary will be reopened for nature restoration. This creates opportunities, within a binational Dutch-Belgian consortium, to experiment with the existing dike and to perform targeted dike breach experiments and breach monitoring. We will exploit this opportunity to investigate a newly described, potentially valuable contribution of vegetated foreshores to flood safety: the restriction of dike breach extent, and thus of flooding volume, in the case of failure of the dike. Fostering marsh development in front of realigned dikes could improve safety more than hitherto thought. Not only does it reduce dike failure probabilities, it may also restrict the consequences of failures. Even though this is not the primary goal of the HPP realignment, in this Living Lab we will study how management realignment can be used as a nature-based solution for flood safety. We will model the contribution of vegetated foreshores to breach development, calculate its contribution to reduction of risks, and validate the model using the breach experiment. We will also study the conditions for, and rates of, vegetation and soil strength development in front of realigned dikes. We will explore novel designs and maintenance schemes for realigned dikes connected to a vegetated foreshore. Finally, we will study how people experience physical changes in the landscape in terms of place attachment: will they be reconnected to the changed landscape when properly informed on the new role of this landscape in ecosystem development and safety enhancement? The project consortium is composed of engineers, ecologists and social scientists with a strong track record in multidisciplinary co-operation. It is externally supported by national and regional water authorities, contractors and engineering companies. It is ideally situated to translate new knowledge into operational procedures, and incorporate this into the education of future coastal professionals.
