Tag: NLCS

Today was our second working session with fellow drinking water companies. We discussed various concepts for the NLCS Drinking Water layer structures.

In January, Evides Water Company initiated the first meeting with digiGO. In April, the NLCS Drinking Water project was launched. And look where we are now.

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In the long term, drinking water companies will no longer have to make their own additions to the Dutch CAD Standard (NLCS).

With the new NLCS Drinking Water, signed on October 29th during digiGO D-Day 2025 by the drinking water companies, Evides Waterbedrijf, and digiGO (NLCS Management Committee), a single national standard for design and revision drawings in the drinking water sector will be established.

Read the full press release here (in Dutch).

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The first kick-off meeting and workshop with the CAD/GIS experts from the drinking water companies is scheduled for September 17.
Preparations with digiGO are in full swing.

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The proposal is to divide the NLCS for Drinking Water project into a number of components.

• NLCS Drinking Water: expansion of layer names, symbols and other NLCS-Basic components, so that all assets of drinking water companies can be drawn correctly.
• NLCS Drinking Water Information Model: definition of the data model for asset registration, so that all assets of drinking water companies can be properly managed.
• Alignment between NLCS Drinkwater and NLCS Drinkwater Information Model to align asset information and drawings.

A Project Initiation Document was developed in collaboration with digiGO. This document describes the project, including the schedule and budget.

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NLCS is the 2D drawing standard for the civil engineering construction sector. This open standard contains agreements for dealing with metadata, digital drawing, the appearance of the drawing and – especially – the coding system and layer structure of drawings.
For more information see the website of digiGO.

In the spring of 2025, the drinking water companies expressed their ambition to develop the NLCS for Drinking Water standard for design and revision drawings with the sector.

With the aim of sharing asset data more clearly and efficiently with the various chain partners and safeguarding knowledge about this data.

We do this in collaboration with digiGO and their expert, supplier and maintenance committees for NLCS.

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