This report relates to the Horizon 2020 project entitled ‘Making City’. The report was conducted by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences to the benefit of the Municipality of Groningen and other consortium partners in the Making City project and addresses the legal impediments that may arise when …

In de afgelopen twee jaar is veel veranderd op juridisch vlak als het gaat om de rechtspositie van de consument en diens aansluiting op het aardgassysteem. In deze bijdrage verkennen we de juridische mogelijkheden én onmogelijkheden van twee uitgangsposities: a. die van de burger die graag zelf actie …

Martien Visser roept de Tweede Kamer op om met de nieuwe Energiewet het fundament te leggen voor de energietransitie. Hij stelt: “Schrap het Groepsverbod en de stringente beperkingen. Creëer daarmee een level playing field in Europa en geef de publieke aandeelhouders het vertrouwen en maximaal de ruimte …

The aim of this research was to find out in how far the Netherlands could learn from Sweden regarding the use of manure, in order to create awareness within the equine sector on sustainable solutions. The number of horses in Europe exceeds 5 million and keeps increasing, therefore contributes to greenhouse …

When firefighting, the combination of exposition to high temperatures, high physical demands and wearing (heavy and insulated) personal protective equipment lead to increased risk of heat stress and exhaustion in firefighters. Heat stress can easily evolve into a life-threatening heat stroke. Once heat …

Urban planners and several stakeholders in public and private sector are in need of (quickscan) tools that can assess the vulnerability to floods and thermal stress. Urban flooding and thermal stress have become key issues for many cities around the world. With the continuing effects of climate change, …

The focus of this paper is to make a comparison between five different types of conductive, heatable samples. These samples have been produced according to the five most important implementation techniques developed so far, which are knitting, weaving, embroidery, printing and nonwoven padding  –and …

Safety at work The objective of the project Safety at Work is to increase safety at the workplace by applying and combining state of the art artefacts from personal protective equipment and ambient intelligence technology. In this state of the art document we focus on the developments with respect to …