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The IPWEA-QNT Survey Standards are a set of Guidelines and standards designed by Councils for Councils providing a consistent approach to public works survey across LGA borders. 

ADAC is a data specification platform which enables the efficient capture and storage of civil infrastructure asset data. It is open source and adopted widely by councils and utilities across Australia. It offers a way to automate the transfer of local government asset data from the field into council corporate systems, ensuring the asset management databases, GIS and finance registers are populated with data of integrity. 

IPWEA-QNT has officially released ADAC Version 6.00, marking a significant update to the ADAC framework. This latest version introduces enhancements aimed at improving data accuracy, integration, and compliance for civil infrastructure asset management.

With rising frequency and severity of storms and floods, resilient road infrastructure is essential for safeguarding communities, ensuring economic continuity, and maintaining emergency access. 

The new IPWEA-QNT CAD Standards are a set of Guidelines and drafing standards designed by Councils for Councils covering a variety of topics includings title blocks, fonts, linetypes/weigths, plot files, etc. 

In the information age it is incumbent upon all professional organisations to take control and responsibility for their own information resources and to make that information easily available to end users and practitioners. IPWEA-QNT’s Knowledge Centre achieved global recognition with inclusion in the Library Publishing Director, published by the Library Publishing Coalition in Atlanta, Georgia which details the publishing records of academic and specialist libraries across the world. The Directory awarded the Knowledge Centre 4 on a scale of 1-5 for its ‘stage of publishing efforts’ after just two years following its launch. The Knowledge Centre is fully searchable by subject, key words, speaker/author, event, type, or by date. It includes technical and other engineering information in multiple formats including audio visual recordings, articles, reports, case studies, and recent media relevant to the public works sector for practitioners.

The Lower Order Road Design Guidelines (LORDG) specify minimum standards for the design and construction of lower order road assets and provide practitioners with a risk-based approach to capital improvements. 

As the lower order road network accounts for over 70% local and state-controlled networks throughout Queensland, this approach allows stakeholders to maximise the return on funds invested.

The Queensland Urban Drainage Manual (QUDM) is an engineering guideline that addresses the technical, legal, regulatory and environmental aspects of effective drainage systems. It provides details of appropriate design methods and computational procedures and covers both hydrologic and hydraulic procedures.