WDOD and HHNK strengthen Verdygo Community
On Oct. 29, Jos Kerssens on behalf of HHNK and Maarten Boersen Director of Water on behalf of Waterschap Drents Overijsselse Delta signed the cooperation agreement with Verdygo and thus ratified the cooperation with the community. With the accession, the Verdygo community has grown from seven to nine water boards.
The water sector faces major challenges in terms of climate change, innovation, sustainability and circularity. Traditional sewage treatment plants are often uniquely designed and difficult to adapt to new requirements. With changing laws and regulations, tight labor markets and scarcity of contractors, a modular standard offers a solution for the future. Uniformity in design and operation allows for rapid innovations and large-scale modifications, which is critical to keeping the industry agile into the future.
What is Verdygo?
Verdygo is an important development in the field of sewage treatment. Using standard components, we build flexible and compact treatment plants. The concept where the member water boards together with the market (contractors and engineering firms) develop and apply a modular design and construction system for sewage treatment plants. As the initiators put it, "Standardization and modular thinking are the cornerstones of future treatment." In other words, the Verdygo concept should become the new standard for wastewater treatment plants in the Netherlands. This development highlights the importance of standardization in the water sector and heralds a new phase of sector-wide cooperation.
Why is it important for HHNK to join Verdygo?
HHNK faces the same task. We must continue to comply with statutory guidelines and regulations now and in the future. The capacity in the market is limited, techniques change, then it is nice to tackle the task in phases and in a structured way by new standards and modular construction.
