Klip Klim

KLIP / KLIM-CICC - nathan

Any engineer who needs to put a shovel into the ground in Belgium, has to issue a “plan-request” with the local authorities, who will forward this request to known cable- and pipeline owners.

We enable cable- and pipeline owners with a single, simple, effective solution that will allow you to answer to each authority from a single dataset.

• In the Flemish part of the country, one has to handle plan-requests using the KLIP platform, except when a notary asks planning information, then you have to use the federal platform (KLIM-CICC).
• plan-requests located in the Walloon part of the country or Brussels are handled using the KLIM-CICC platform
• both platforms use their own seperate API
• both platforms use their own separate answering protocol
• KLIP expects IMKL packages, combining all information in XML (GML) format. This allows KLIP to combine all answers in a bigger package, and they have built an excellent viewer
• KLIM allows people to build their own ZIP package and upload it to the “KLIM Drive” although this is not required

We take this complexity completely out of your hands and will answer all requests automatically. A Cable and Pipeline Owner has to define a buffer around their site/locations, when a plan-request falls into such a buffer they will be notified.  There are varying degrees how to handle requests:

• use a smaller buffer and any request received will receive a detailed answer with all the specified objects and plans in the vicinity
• use a large buffer, and use a second, smaller buffer to determine for which plan-requests we actually need to send data. Some owners do this to remain informed of works in the area even if not directly impacted (apparently). For instance: when placing windmills in an open field, heavy material will have to cross the field and possibly cross a buried pipeline (which has no protection in the field for such weights)

We have an API that allows owners to pull the plan-requests in their own GIS to perform any follow-up on the works later on. Our platform just performs the legal duty of answering with the required data in a timely fashion.

Also legal we are obliged to keep and save the answers we prepared for at least 5-10 years (“bewaarplicht”).