Evacuation diagram coverage across Australia
Every diagram is drawn from the floor plan, sketch or photos you send and delivered as a print-ready PDF, so there is no site visit to schedule and no travel to pay for, wherever the building sits. The 23 cities below are the ones with a page of their own.
Why the state still matters
AS 3745 is a national standard, so the way a diagram is drawn does not change when you cross a border. The layer around it does. Which buildings have to display a diagram, who inspects it, and what the owner records or lodges are all set by state and territory law, and the local fire authority differs too. Each section below links the requirements guide for that state and names the authority for each city.
23 cities, 8 states and territories
New South Wales
Requirements guide: NSW evacuation diagram requirements
- Sydney
Office towers in the CBD and North Sydney, new fitouts in Parramatta and Macquarie Park, and the Annual Fire Safety Statement lodged with council each year.
- Newcastle
Mayfield and Kooragang carry the heavy industry, Honeysuckle the hospitality, and the university, hospital and TAFE precincts need a sheet per building.
- Wollongong
Multi-zone industrial layouts at Port Kembla, offices along Crown Street, campuses at the University of Wollongong and TAFE Illawarra.
- Central Coast
Aged care and retirement villages carry a heightened duty of care here, with Erina Fair and Tuggerah retail and the Somersby industrial estates behind them.
Victoria
Requirements guide: the requirements guide for VIC
- Melbourne
From Collins Street and Bourke Street offices out to the warehouses of the western and southeastern industrial zones, with tech fitouts in Cremorne and Richmond in between.
- Geelong
The waterfront brings cafes and tourism venues, Corio and Lara bring manufacturing floors, and Deakin and the hospital precinct bring a diagram per building.
- Ballarat
Heritage CBD and Lydiard Street buildings put exits in non-standard places; Sovereign Hill draws the seasonal crowds and the Ballarat West employment zone keeps producing new fitouts.
- Bendigo
Heritage frontages around Pall Mall and View Street, plus galleries and theatres at high occupancy and the Bendigo Health and La Trobe precincts.
Queensland
Requirements guide: what QLD requires
- Brisbane
Ann Street towers, Fortitude Valley bars and clubs and Eagle Farm distribution centres, with assembly areas planned for a subtropical climate.
- Gold Coast
Beachfront resort towers run multi-floor routes, theme parks plan for visitor volume, and short-stay towers need every common area drawn for the body corporate.
- Sunshine Coast
Hotels and resorts at Mooloolaba, Maroochydore and Noosa; office fitouts in the new Maroochydore CBD; the campus at Sippy Downs.
- Townsville
Premises next to Lavarack Barracks and RAAF Townsville, venues on Palmer Street and The Strand, industrial units in Stuart and Bohle, all planned with cyclone season in mind.
- Cairns
Reef tourism, marina and dive operators keep unusual back-of-house layouts, while Esplanade hotels and Portsmith workshops plan around the wet season.
- Toowoomba
Schools, boarding colleges and aged care draw the closest audit attention, ahead of food processing at Wilsonton and Charlton and freight around Wellcamp.
- Mackay
Large floor plates and plant in the Paget workshops, professional suites in the CBD, sugar mills with layouts all of their own.
- Rockhampton
A meatworks has cold rooms, wet areas and a layout to match; Gracemere adds engineering workshops, the Bruce Highway adds motels.
Western Australia
Requirements guide: evacuation diagram requirements in WA
South Australia
Requirements guide: the SA requirements guide
- Adelaide
South Australia asks for an Essential Safety Provisions statement, and the buildings behind it run from Rundle Street venues to Regency Park manufacturing.
Tasmania
Requirements guide: requirements for TAS buildings
- Hobart
Salamanca and Battery Point heritage sits beside North Hobart hospitality, and the university campuses are covered building by building.
- Launceston
The heritage CBD hides non-standard exits, and UTAS Inveresk, cool stores and food processing add the rest.
Australian Capital Territory
Requirements guide: ACT requirements
- Canberra
Commonwealth and ACT government floors, embassies and defence establishments lead the list, with new commercial fitouts arriving at Gungahlin and Kingston Foreshore.
Northern Territory
Requirements guide: requirements across the NT
- Darwin
Mitchell Street and Waterfront venues, industrial sheds at East Arm and Berrimah, and Alice Springs and Katherine businesses on the same digital delivery.
We deliver anywhere in Australia
These cities are simply the ones where we have written the local detail down. The work itself is remote, so a regional town, an island site, or a suburb we have not named is the same job: send what you have and we will quote it.