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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 9 calls for resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation. Echoing this vision, construction industries have prioritised resilient structure and sustainable design while optimising economic and wealth growth. The use of steel fibre (SteFib) as scattered reinforcement in building design and construction had been explored. SteFib has been designed as reinforcement in the structural components of the building namely, raft foundation, floor and roof slabs, wall panel and column. Prototype of an Industrialised Building System (IBS) with two (2) bedrooms, one (1) living area and linked to a small kitchen was constructed using hook ended SteFib, 60 mm long and 0.7 mm in diameter mixed in grade 40 concrete. The prototype has successfully proven that the SteFib is able to stand as fully reinforced structure through this tiny home project. The structural performance analysed and verified using Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis. The analysis results show that steel fibre house has higher stress, forces and moment compared with normal concrete house.

Coffee is one of the leading products in the plantation sector in South Sulawesi Province, apart from cocoa and passion fruit. A number of previous studies have found that the sustainability of the coffee processing industry is largely determined by the supply chain system, innovation capabilities and business competitiveness. This study aims to identify and analyse a number of indicators that form the variables of supply chain integration, innovation capability and business competitiveness. Apart from that, to explain and analyse the indicators that provide the greatest contribution in forming these three variables. This study took data through a survey of 106 respondents who were owners/managers of the coffee processing industry. Data were analysed using both descriptive statistical analysis and conformational factor analysis. The results of this study show that an effective supply chain system will be achieved through integration with suppliers. Product innovation is an important element in forming a company's innovation capability. Then this study also confirms the importance of product quality as an important element in shaping the competitiveness of the coffee processing industry in South Sulawesi.

Passion fruit products are one of the superior products processed by the agribusiness sector industry in Gowa Regency. In order for the passion fruit processing industry to continue to exist and be sustainable in the market, understanding supply chain strategy, competitiveness and business performance is very important for managers/owners. This study aims to explain and analyse the important elements of supply chain strategy, daylight and business performance. This study uses a quantitative approach, where primary data is obtained from 105 managers or owners through questionnaires on April to July in 2023. Research data was processed and analysed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The research results show that the main element forming a supply chain strategy is responsiveness. Product quality is a key element in shaping a company's competitiveness, and business performance is more dominantly determined or shaped by the company's sales growth. The implications of this study provide direction for managers of the passion fruit processing industry regarding the importance of responsiveness aspects in implementing supply chain strategies, product quality in developing competitiveness, and sales growth aspects to produce superior performance.

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(1), 55-67 | European Forum Insight of 29 April 2022 | (Table of Contents) I. The CBAM and EU leadership theory. - I.1. Introduction. - I.2. The CBAM: assertively combating carbon leakage. - I.3. EU climate unilateralism. - I.4. EU climate leadership: types. - I.5. EU climate leadership: objectives. - II. The CBAM as a case of exemplary/cognitive leadership. - III. The CBAM as a case of structural leadership. - IV. Pushing or pioneering? The CBAM in objectives. - V. Conclusion. | (Abstract) The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is the most recent and assertive component of EU external climate policy. Whilst the CBAM has the potential to accelerate global climate governance, by demonstrating that Parties to the Paris Agreement can combat carbon leakage by means of border measures, it could simultaneously foster animosity and stall progress. Accordingly, the CBAM could either solidify or jeopardize the EU's long-recognized leadership position in global climate governance. This Insight therefore takes an in-depth look at the CBAM as a case of climate leadership. It assesses how the EU seeks to establish itself as a leader by merging methods from the exemplary, cognitive, and structural leadership types, whilst acting as a simultaneously economically and environmentally driven actor with high internal and external climate ambitions. This hybridity attests to the complexity of the CBAM, but also to the composite nature of EU climate leadership via unilateral measures. More specifically, the Insight brings attention to the close interrelation between exemplary and cognitive leadership in novel policy solutions, as well as the complementary role of structural leadership when there is no predetermined hierarchy between international norms. This role raises the question how sustainable EU climate unilateralism will be as the EU's economic clout, and hence its additional leverage, will decrease over time.

This article investigates the connection between performance, group, and society. The argument is that group formation around particular farm operations and the details of the activities they engage in are an expression of the preferred way of technology implementation. The argument is developed using Paul Richards' notion of agriculture as performance. Two cases are presented. The first is the composition of a spraying team for weed control in smallholder oil palm production in Sumatra, connected to a global agreement on sustainable oil palm production, known as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The second case is about a team of women transplanting young rice seedlings on prepared paddy fields in a village in Uttarakhand, India. A new way of rice transplanting was introduced by a local non-governmental organization, known as the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The analysis shows that group performances provide essential information about how introduced plans, regulations and material designs are reworked and turned into meaningful and effective changes to agricultural practices. The article concludes that these activities are not merely technical adjustments but in themselves express arguments about the preferred way of organising farming, farm labor, and payments. Performing groups thus exert a form of bargaining power against development actors. Keywords: Group performance, smallholder farming, technology transfer, political acts