Infrastructure Design and Construction Requirements

These standards provide guidance to designers and contractors in the creation of new public assets and are intended to be used as a reference to ensure that a common approach is taken throughout the region.

At the discretion of Mackay Regional Council, these drawings may be amended, deleted or additional drawings included.

Designers and other users of these drawings are responsible for all aspects of their design and ensuring they use only the latest available version of the standard drawings.

Standard Drawings

General

Roads

Drainage

Pedestrians and Cyclist Facilities

Bus Infrastructure

Parks and Open Spaces

Irrigation

Erosion and Sediment Control

Water Assets

  • CTM Water Alliance Design and Construction Code

General

Supplementary Specifications

D20 Drawing Presentation and Documentation Guideline

Asset Design as Constructed (ADAC) Requirements

GDA2020 Datum Modernistaion

Mackay Regional Council adopted the Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020) for projects which commenced on or after 1 July 2020. The following series of fact sheets provide guidance for people who use Mackay Regional Council’s datasets, or who supply data to Mackay Regional Council. Further information is available on the DNRME and ICSM websites.

Parks and Open Spaces

Infrastructure Planning

Bike Plans

In 1999 council adopted the Mackay City Bicycle Strategy for the Mackay urban area. The Bicycle Strategy sought to encourage cycling in Mackay and guide the development of a more safe, convenient and accessible environment for cyclists, particularly those of school age.

In 2004, council carried out a review of the strategy, mainly driven by the need to review the high development growth areas and to extend the master plan to include areas such as Glenella and Slade Point. A further review was undertaken in 2007 which updated the master plans to include the Northern Beaches and Walkerston.

The scope of the 2010 review involves extending the plan to include a whole region approach to cycle traffic planning. The current focus of the Mackay Cycleway Strategy is to close the 'missing' links in the existing network as well as creating a 'spine' link
for future extensions to the network.

Footpath Corridor Allocations

Council has developed standard alignments for footpath utility installations for various road hierarchies as follows:

Road Hierarchy Plans and Cross-Sections

The adopted road hierarchy for Mackay is based on the Eppell Olsen & Partners Four Level Road Hierarchy based on the purpose, function, management and design elements of each road in the network.

Mackay Regional Council’s road hierarchy is included in the Mackay Region Planning Scheme. The hierarchy is available:

For download – Road hierarchy overlay maps from the Mackay Region Planning Scheme

Interactive mapping – MiMaps (select Mackay Region Planning Scheme, Overlays, Road Hierarchy)

Road Hierarchy Documentation

Hierarchy tables

Road Hierarchy Acceptable Cross-Sections

Donated Assets

Donated Assets Construction Guidelines

Draft Construction Specifications

Mackay Regional Council Water Services is in the process of revising the following construction guidelines:

These draft guidelines are now open for comment from construction companies, engineering consultants and any other interested parties.

Following closure of the comment period, the comments will be reviewed and the revised documents will be ratified by Council and issued for use.

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