Where Australian Standards or part thereof have been adopted by legislation, they are a legal requirement.
This list may not be exhaustive. Please refer to the relevant authority websites for updated information and current document distribution dates. These documents are subject to amendments from time to time.
Include Safety in Design (SiD) principles to eliminate, or if not reasonably practical, minimise risks to health and safety throughout the design, construction and life of the embellishment.
See Legislation – Work Health and Safety Act 2011 for additional safety guidance.
AS 1428 (Set) – Design for access and mobility. Design requirements for new building work to provide access for people with disabilities. This Standard is referenced in legislation.
Queensland Government – Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) – Guidelines for Queensland, 2021. Provides guidelines about designing a safe environment to assist in the prevention of the opportunity for crime.
AS 1939 Supp 1 and 2 – Degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment (IP Code) – Wallchart 1 and 2.
AS/NZS 3000 – Electrical installations (known as the Australian/New Zealand Wiring rules). Sets out requirements for the design, construction and verification of electrical installations, including the selection and installation of electrical equipment forming part of such electrical installations.
AS/NZS 3002 – Electrical installations. Shows and carnivals. Sets out requirements for the supply of electricity at low-voltage by wiring systems to power consuming devices used for accommodation, entertainment or display purposes within concessions, tents, living quarters and other structures.
AS/NZS 3008.1.1 – Electrical installations – Selection of cables - Cables for alternating voltages up to and including 0.6/1 kV – Typical Australian installation conditions. Sets out a method for cable selection for those types of electrical cables and methods of installation that are in common use at working voltages up to and including 0.6/1 kV at 50Hz a.c.
AS/NZS 3017 – Electrical installations - Verification guidelines. Sets out some of the common inspection and test methods required to verify that a low voltage, multiple earthed neutral (MEN) (TN-C-S) electrical installation complies with safety requirements for the prevention of fire, or a person or livestock from sustaining an electric shock.
AS/NZS 3439.1 – Low voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies – Part 1:Type-tested and partially type-tested assemblies. The object of this standard is to lay down the definitions and to state the service conditions, construction requirements, technical characteristics and tests for low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies.
AS 60529 – Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code). Applies to the classification of degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment with a rated voltage not exceeding 72.5 kV.
Where communications are to be provided for future purpose – AS/CA S009 – Installation requirements for customer cabling (Wiring Rules) – Applies to the installation and maintenance of fixed or concealed cabling or equipment that is connected, or is intended to be connected, to a telecommunications network, including any cord or cordage, or that part of any cord or cordage, that is connected as fixed or concealed cabling.
AS/NZS 1158 Set – Lighting for roads and public spaces Set. Applies to the lighting of roads and other outdoor public spaces.
AS 4282 – Control of the obtrusive effects of outdoor lighting. Sets out guidelines for the control of the obtrusive effects of outdoor lighting. This Standard covers car parks, but not other types of public lighting.
AS 1110.1:ISO – Metric hexagon bolts and screws – Product grades A and B - Bolts. To provide manufacturers, suppliers and users with the dimensions, tolerances and material requirements for hexagon head bolts of ISO product grades A and B with ISO metric coarse threads.
AS 1110.2:ISO – Metric hexagon bolts and screws – Product grades A and B - Screws. To provide manufacturers, suppliers and users with the dimensions, tolerances and material requirements for hexagon head screws of ISO product grades A and B with ISO metric coarse threads.
AS 1112.1:ISO – Metric hexagon nuts – Style 1 - Product grades A and B - to provide manufacturers, suppliers and users with the dimensions, tolerances and material requirements for style 1, hexagon nuts, ISO product grades A and B with ISO metric coarse threads.
AS/NZS 1170.0 – Structural design actions – General principles. Specifies general procedures and criteria for the structural design of a building or structure in limit states format.
AS/NZS 1170.1 – Structural design actions – Permanent, imposed and other actions. Specifies permanent, imposed, static liquid pressure, ground water, rainwater ponding and earth pressure actions to be used in the limit state design of structures and parts of structures.
AS/NZS 1170.2 – Structural design actions – Wind actions. Sets out procedures for determining wind speeds and resulting wind actions to be used in the structural design of structures subjected to wind actions other than those caused by tornadoes.
AS/NZS 1252.1 and 1252.2 – High strength steel bolts with associated nuts and washers for structural engineering. Specifies the dimensional, material and marking requirements for steel bolts of property class 8.8 and steel nuts of property class 8 with ISO metric coarse pitch series threads in diameters from 16 mm to 36 mm and associated hardened and tempered steel washers intended for use in steel structures.
AS 1275 – Metric screw threads for fasteners. Specifies requirements for single start, parallel, coarse pitch series metric screw threads, mainly intended for threaded fasteners.
AS/NZS 1554.1 – Structural steel welding. Welding of steel structures. Specifies requirements for the welding of steel structures made up of combinations of steel plate, sheet or sections, including hollow sections and built-up sections, or castings and forgings.
AS/NZS 1594 – Hot rolled steel flat products. Specifies requirements for hot-rolled steel plate, floorplate, sheet and strip, rolled on a continuous mill, in thicknesses up to 8.0 mm for formability and extra formability grades and up to 16 mm for other grades, and for widths up to 2000 mm. It includes slit material, provided that the parent material has an as-rolled width of not less than 600 mm.
AS 1798 – Lighting poles and bracket arms. Recommended dimensions. Provides recommendations for the dimensions of lighting poles and separate bracket arms designed for use in installations providing lighting for roads and other outdoor public spaces.
AS 3600:2009 – Concrete structures. Sets out minimum requirements for the design and construction of concrete building structures and members that contain reinforcing steel or tendons, or both. It also sets out minimum requirements for plain concrete pedestals and footings.
AS/NZS 3678:2016 – Structural steel – Hot-rolled plates, floorplates and slabs. Specifies requirements for the production and supply of hot-rolled structural steel plates and floorplates for carbon and carbon-manganese mechanically tested steels, fully-killed analysis-only steels, and low-alloy (weathering) mechanically tested steels. This standard also specifies requirements for the production and supply of wide slabs as fully-killed analysis-only steel.
AS 4100:1998 – Steel structures. Sets out minimum requirements for the design, fabrication, erection and modification of steelwork in structures in accordance with the limit states design method. This standard applies to buildings, structures and cranes constructed of steel.
AS/NZS 4600:2005 – Cold-formed steel structures. Sets out the minimum requirements for the design of structural members cold-formed to shape from carbon or low-alloy steel sheet, strip, plate or bar not more than 25 mm in thickness and used for load-carrying purposes in buildings. It is also applicable for structures other than buildings provided appropriate allowances are made for dynamic effects.
AS/NZS 4677:2010 – Steel utility service poles. Specifies minimum requirements for the materials, design, fabrication and erection of steel utility services poles.
AS/NZS 4680:2006 – Hot-dip galvanised (zinc) coatings on fabricated ferrous articles. Specifies requirements and tests for hot-dip zinc coatings on fabricated ferrous articles including structural steel, steel reinforcements, steel sheet fabrications, assembled steel products, tubular fabrications, fabricated wire work, steel forgings, steel stampings, ferrous castings, nails and other small components.
BS EN 40-3-3:2013 – Lighting columns. Design and verification. Verification by calculation. Specifies the requirements for the verification of the design of lighting columns by calculation. It applies to post top columns not exceeding 20 m in height for post top lanterns and to lighting columns with brackets not exceeding 18 m for side entry lanterns. (British Standards Institution).
AS 4970:2025 – Protection of trees on development sites. Provides guidance on the principles for protecting trees on land subject to development.
AS 2303:2018 – Tree stock for landscape use. Specifies the criteria for the assessment of above-ground and below-ground characteristics of tree stock that are to be supplied for landscape use.
AS 4373:2007 – Pruning of amenity trees. Specifies methods for pruning trees and gives guidance on correct and uniform practices.
It is illegal to do electrical work in Queensland without a licence. There are 6 different types of electrical work licence. These are as follows:
Electrical mechanic license
An electrical mechanic licence authorises the holder to perform all electrical work, including, but not limited to:
Installing or changing an electrical installation or electric line
Maintaining, repairing, or connecting to a source of electricity, an item of electrical equipment.
Electrical lines-person licence
An electrical lines-person licence authorises the holder to perform all electrical line work, including, but not limited to:
Electrical work in the building or maintenance of an overhead electric line
Electrical work in the building or maintenance of street lighting connected to an overhead or underground electric line
Tests to ensure overhead electric lines are correctly connected.
Electrical fitter licence
An electrical fitter licence authorises the holder to perform all electrical equipment work, including, but not limited to:
Electrical work, whether in a workshop or on site, of building, manufacturing, fitting, assembling, erecting, operating, testing or repairing electrical equipment.
Electrical jointer licence
An electrical jointer licence authorises the holder to perform electrical work to the extent of the following:
Installing, jointing and terminating cables to the extent the work requires specialised knowledge or skill
Electrical equipment work necessary for the work mentioned above.
Restricted electrical work licence
A restricted electrical work licence is limited to specific electrical work associated with work from another trade that is recognised as having a legitimate need to sometimes perform electrical work, for example:
Composite equipment service person
Gas fitter
Plumber and drainer
Telecommunication technician.
Electrical work training permit
This is a restricted permit which allows electrical work to be performed under specified conditions while being trained.
All connection, installation, repairs or maintenance to customer cabling that is connected or intended to be connected to a telecommunications network, must be performed by a registered cable person or under the direct supervision of a registered cable person.
Ensure appropriate environmental approvals are obtained and the conditions observed where any building work is proposed in the Coastal Management District.
Consult with Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning (DSDIP) – State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA) for application forms, guidelines and information sheets.
Ensure all relevant approvals are obtained from the appropriate governing bodies and all conditions are observed.
Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR) approval is required for works near state controlled roads. This applies to any part of the road reserve including pathways, kerb and channelling, nature strip and traffic island.
Council (Development Services) – all works associated with any development application.
Council delivered assets
Council (Parks and Gardens) – recreation parks, amenity reserves, linear parks, landscape corridors, sports grounds and recreation trails enquiries relating to asset management, business planning and direction.
Council (Environmental Operations) – recreation trails, foreshore infrastructure, environment reserves, constructed waterbodies and wetlands.
Council (Design and Placemaking Services) – recreation parks, amenity reserves, linear parks, landscape corridors, sports grounds, specific purpose (sports), recreation trails and streetscape/centres enquiries relating to design.
Council (Sport and Community Venues) – sports ground planning and asset management.
Council (Economic Development) – for events guidance.
Council (Transport Network Management) – technical and design solutions to facilitate ongoing management and safe operations of road and assets. Water management and drainage solutions. Plus street lighting and electrical infrastructure.
Council (Property Management) – council buildings and facilities, including public amenities (toilet blocks).
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Information contained in this document may change without notice and you should use the current material available from Council’s website and not rely on material previously printed or stored by you.
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Where a particular product or supplier is profiled in this document, Council is NOT nominating this product or supplier as the selected choice. Product/supplier information has been provided to allow users to source products which contain the correct elements required for Council embellishments. Each product profiled states ‘or equivalent’ which means that different products may be supplied provided they satisfy the identified performance criteria, recommended standards, equal access guidance and product specifications.
Product design, manufacture and installation requires appropriately qualified people to provide site specific solutions to ensure the embellishment is appropriately adapted to local conditions and data.
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