Guides
Engineering Workflows
Planning Property Report Victoria: What It Leaves Out
If you need the planning zone and overlays for a Victorian property, the Victorian Government already gives you a free Planning Property Report. Use …
Guides
Engineering Workflows
What Is a Flood Overlay, and What Does It Mean?
A flood overlay is a planning control. It is a mapped area in a planning scheme where the council has decided flooding is a constraint, so extra rules …
Guides
Engineering Workflows
What Is in a Property Planning Report, Page by Page
“Property planning report” means different things depending on who is asking. A conveyancer means a certificate. A planner means zone and …
Engineering Workflows
Guides
Flood Overlay Map Check by Address, Exported to CAD
To run a flood check by address, open your state’s flood overlay map and switch on each hazard layer, or search the address once in PlanInsight …
Engineering Workflows
Guides
Site Feasibility Study: Desktop Site Assessment Checklist
A desktop site feasibility study answers one question before you quote: is there anything about this lot that changes the job? In about ten minutes, a …
Engineering Workflows
Underground Services
BYDA for Design: Turnaround and Plan Validity
Every guide to Before You Dig Australia (BYDA, formerly Dial Before You Dig) is written for the person holding the shovel. That is fair, because that …
Engineering Workflows
Queensland
Lawful Point of Discharge QLD: Desktop Check
Most stormwater jobs are won or lost at the fee proposal stage. If you can tell a client on day one that the site falls 4 m to the rear, drains away …