Technical standards, guidelines and specifications
The following technical standards, guidelines and specifications provide information and processes that apply to Northern Territory (NT) Government infrastructure for building and civil assets.
When working in NT Government assets or preparing a tender, there are certain requirements and process you must follow:
- for specifications for buildings, roads, environmental management and recycled crushed glass, site specific rules and commercial clauses - read technical specifications
- to request for existing drawings, official NT Government drawing number or tender numbers - read technical records.
Specification disciplines
Access technical documents relating to a specific engineering discipline or subject area below.
Buildings
Building design standards includes architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, vapour barriers fire and more.
Roads
- Civil construction materials testing - test methods and codes of practice for sampling and testing materials.
- Civil standard drawings - civil standard drawing register, current and previous civil standard plans and drawings for bridges, civil, electrical, project signs, structural, traffic.
- Road design and drafting tools - standards that set out the requirements for road design on NT controlled roads and civil infrastructure.
- Road development guidelines - requirements for third-party developers when developments connect to NT Government road corridors.
- Road hierarchy profiles and pavements:
- Road safety audits - resources to assist you in ensuring road safety audits are carried out consistently.
- Road safety barriers - information about nominal standards for road safety barrier systems.
- Road safety treatments - guidance on scope and application of road safety treatments on new road infrastructure to reduce the risk of fatal and serious injury crashes.
- Road surfacing standards - standards that set out the requirements for road surfacing on NT controlled roads and civil infrastructure.
- Stormwater and drainage policy PDF (91.7 KB).
- Street lighting:
- Survey:
- Traffic signals design technical directive and guideline PDF (2.6 MB).
Transport
- Transport and traffic data - statistics about roads and traffic managed by the NT Government.
- Transport infrastructure asset management - asset requirements, responsibilities and management within the transport corridors.
Environment
Environmental management - standard specifications for environmental management, contractor’s environmental management plan (CEMP), and other information regarding environmental management.
Design requirements
Depending on the project you're working on, you must also refer to the following:
- NTG technical records - part 1 - requirements for technical records management PDF (1.7 MB)
- NTG technical drawings - part 2 - civil CADD manual PDF (7.6 MB)
- NTG technical drawings - part 3 - documentation manual for buildings PDF (1.1 MB)
- NTG technical records - part 4 - APRODOCS: requirements for tender deliverables PDF (245.9 KB).
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