Civil drafting projects — Australian infrastructure portfolio.
ASTCAD’s civil design and drafting project portfolio — roads, drainage, subdivisions and infrastructure documentation for Australian councils, developers and civil engineering firms. Civil 3D, 12d Model and MicroStation deliverables.
Featured civil projects.
A selection of ASTCAD’s signature civil engineering projects — subdivisions, road design, stormwater, mining haul roads, industrial estates and infrastructure documentation across Australian states.
124-lot greenfield subdivision — Logan
Full civil documentation for 124-lot subdivision — Stage 1 civil-complete in 7 months, zero council remediation works.
Read case study11 km haul road — Pilbara iron ore extension
Pavement design for 240 t haul trucks — the heaviest in commercial mining. On-design performance after 18 months operation.
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Rural arterial upgrade — 5 km design
Pavement + geometry realignment + drainage redesign. Eliminated geometric hazard and resolved local flooding incidents.
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Stormwater detention + bioretention basin
MUSIC-modelled detention and bioretention — 90% TSS / 60% TP load reduction targets met in first year of operation.
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Industrial estate — 22-lot Wodonga VIC
22 industrial lots with Hume Freeway intersection + flood-resilient lot levels. 6 lots pre-sold; estate operational late 2024.
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Adelaide CBD pocket park — civil design
2,400 m² brownfield park — earthworks, retaining walls, drainage. Attenuation tank on design throughout first wet season.
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Open-pit mining infrastructure — value engineering
Material cost reductions and improved buildability across mining haul-road and equipment-support civil works.
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Land development civil engineering — multi-site
Civil engineering support for ongoing land development projects across SEQ and northern NSW — feasibility through to as-built.
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Trunk sewer reticulation — regional pump station
Civil design for a 2.1 km trunk sewer with pump station — survey, hydraulics, alignment and council approval delivered.
Read case studyInside our civil drafting projects
These civil drafting projects run from subdivision and industrial estate documentation through road upgrades, drainage design and park infrastructure — the spread reflects how councils, developers and contractors actually use an external civil drafting team. Common to all of them: Civil 3D models underneath the drawings, so quantities and design changes propagate instead of being redrafted, and documentation formatted to the approving authority’s presentation standards so review cycles stay short.
Browse the individual case studies for the specifics — catchment sizes, lot yields, staging logic — and note the recurring theme of designs structured around approval pathways. Civil documentation that anticipates the referral comments gets approved faster, and faster approvals are usually worth more to a developer than any drafting fee difference.
For councils and their contractors, the portfolio also demonstrates familiarity with the operational works and referral processes that surround the drawings themselves — because in civil work, engineering that ignores the approval machinery is only half an engineering service.
Where a project here matches your own scope closely, mention it in your enquiry — the same engineers who delivered it will scope yours, and precedent makes both the estimate and the delivery faster.