Draft Engineering Guidelines for Design and Construction

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Engineering plan spread out on a table


Council’s current Engineering Requirements for Development cover the design and construction of road, transport, drainage and associated assets, and were originally approved as supporting guidelines to the Development Control Plan (DCP) in 1994. While some minor enhancements and additions have been made over the last 25 years, the bulk of the information contained in the guidelines are outdated and required extensive review.


The original guidelines were developed from engineering specifications that reflected best practice in local government at the time. Over the last 25 years, significant changes and improvements to engineering and architectural specifications have been undertaken, with specific reference to NATSPEC, a company that has provided a wide range of engineering and architectural specifications to the construction industry since 1975. The revised guidelines reflect a new generation of specifications developed for widespread use by local councils.


AUS-SPEC is a national specification system used for the design and construction of asset management in local government. They also provide updated references to specifications and design practices adopted by Roads and Maritime Services, State Road Authorities and Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia.


This report recommends that Council place the Draft Engineering Specifications on public exhibition in the coming months, in order to allow the development industry and the community to comment on the new guidelines.


View the Draft Engineering Guidelines for Design and Construction documents online by clicking here.


The consultation concluded on 9 May, 2023.


Council’s current Engineering Requirements for Development cover the design and construction of road, transport, drainage and associated assets, and were originally approved as supporting guidelines to the Development Control Plan (DCP) in 1994. While some minor enhancements and additions have been made over the last 25 years, the bulk of the information contained in the guidelines are outdated and required extensive review.


The original guidelines were developed from engineering specifications that reflected best practice in local government at the time. Over the last 25 years, significant changes and improvements to engineering and architectural specifications have been undertaken, with specific reference to NATSPEC, a company that has provided a wide range of engineering and architectural specifications to the construction industry since 1975. The revised guidelines reflect a new generation of specifications developed for widespread use by local councils.


AUS-SPEC is a national specification system used for the design and construction of asset management in local government. They also provide updated references to specifications and design practices adopted by Roads and Maritime Services, State Road Authorities and Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia.


This report recommends that Council place the Draft Engineering Specifications on public exhibition in the coming months, in order to allow the development industry and the community to comment on the new guidelines.


View the Draft Engineering Guidelines for Design and Construction documents online by clicking here.


The consultation concluded on 9 May, 2023.

Consultation has concluded

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