OVERVIEW 

The ADAC (Asset Design & As Constructed) product is developed and maintained by a consortium of Local Government agencies in Queensland in conjunction with the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia - Queensland Branch (IPWEAQ).  The process is used to facilitate the collection and lodgement of detailed information on contributed civil infrastructure and associated assets provided by the private sector to Councils.

The consortium has developed a standard which defines:

• the information required for each asset type;
• the terminology to describe this information; and
• allowable values

From this, a program has been developed for the commonly used AutoCAD engineering software, to facilitate the collection of this information, and define the format in which the data is stored.  The product is offered free of charge by participating ADAC Member Councils to their private sector partners involved in the property development industry to ensure a uniform approach is adopted.  The product comprises a suite of AutoCAD drawing routines, relevant asset standards, documentation and product support that can be downloaded from this site following registration of customer details.

In addition to the AutoCAD-based ADAC tool currently supplied free to customers, a v3.0 XML schema has been produced and offered free for use.  This is intended to allow software vendors and industry companies to develop their own tools that are compliant with the current ADAC XML definition.

The development of the XML schema is designed to facilitate the ADAC long-term product development strategy.  It is expected that over time, high quality industry standard products will provide and support "in-built" functionality capable of both capturing ADAC asset data and producing compliant file outputs.  The ADAC standard and associated data model will continue to be managed by the consortium and communicated to the commercial sector via a suitable business model at a national level.

BENEFITS 

A number of benefits have been recognised with the adoption of the ADAC process:

• It allows local government to automate the data validation and upload process, speeding up the plan sealing process;
• It greatly standardises the information required by different local governments, easing the "flavours" required to be produced by industry;
• It improves the management of assets by local government, reducing community costs;
• It allows for the "electronic validation" of asset information against a defined rules base;
  
• It aids the provision of accurate data back to industry for subsequent works;
• It provides a proven business process for future development, allowing investigation of more efficiencies and the potential use of developing technologies; and
• Efficiencies can potentially be gained by updating ADAC design plans with As-constructed information.

CONSORTIUM MEMBERS

The ADAC Consortium currently includes:

• Brisbane City Council

• Moreton Bay Regional Council
• Caboolture District
• Pine Rivers District

• Redcliffe District
• Redland City Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council
• Caloundra District
• Maroochy District
• Noosa District

• Townsville City Council
• Townsville District

A number of other local governments, both in Queensland and interstate, are either investigating or are in the process of joining the ADAC group.

Australian Local Government and Water Authorities interested in becoming a member of the ADAC Consortium should email their enquiry to:   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it    noting ADAC as the subject.