Publication library
Our position on climate change
Engineers Australia recognises the scale and urgency of the challenges presented by climate change, the disruptions it causes, and the pivotal role of engineering in enabling a socially just transition to a sustainable society.
Professional indemnity insurance action plan
Engineers Australia has developed a three-staged action plan to guide the activities needed to support its members and improve the risk profile of the profession. The plan includes short, medium and long term actions.
Guide on the fire safety verification method
This guide is designed to assist professional fire safety engineers, project certifiers, design teams, approval authorities and stakeholders with the practical and appropriate use of the Fire Safety Verification Method (FSVM) as contained in Schedule 7 of the National Construction Code, Volume 1, Building Code of Australia 2019, Amendment 1 (NCC).
Engineers Australia’s Diversity and Inclusion Positioning Statement
General Regulations
The Board of the Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia) has, by resolution, made the following regulations under By‐Law 32 of the 2015 By‐Laws
CPD policy
CPD can be taken in many ways including formal, structured learning as well as private study. Engineers Australia has conditions around the types of CPD you complete towards your continued membership.
Facade and external wall fire safety design
The guide provides a fire risk assessment methodology for suitably qualified and competent professionals to determine the potential hazard of fire spread via the facade of existing buildings. It offers a pathway to deliver a risk assessment appropriate to the situation being assessed and enables a level of safety to be defined, from which the assessment goals can be set and agreed with building stakeholders.
Society of Fire Safety Constitution
The Society of Fire Safety fosters excellence in fire safety in Australia. It draws together individuals actively engaged in fire safety to provide a national focus and leadership for the development, understanding, practice and application of fire safety engineering.
Conflict of interest policy
Engineers Australia seeks to ensure that the manner in which it operates, and the actions of employees, members, office bearers and other volunteers, conform to acceptable standards of integrity and good conduct.
Diversity and inclusion action plan 2017 - 2020
The Engineers Australia Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan is guided by the organisation’s strategic goals, especially create tomorrow’s engineers and provide a professional home for life.
Action plan for mitigating gender bias
The aim of this blueprint is to increase industry awareness of gender bias and to provide industry with strategies to mitigate organisational bias, such that no employees suffer undue bias due to gender.
Tenability criteria in building fires
This practice note has been prepared as a guide to practitioners on tenability criteria in building fires, for the purpose of enhancing consistency in the fire engineering industry.
Evaluation of engineering heritage
The purpose of this practice note is to provide engineers and others with essential background information on the assessment of the engineering heritage significance of an item or work.
Fire and life safety in existing buildings during construction
This practice note provides guidance for the development and implementation of the fire safety strategy where continued occupation of an existing building is permitted while construction or refurbishments works proceed.
Design fires
This practice note is a supplement to the International fire engineering guidelines for fire safety engineers to derive design fires and design fire scenarios in a consistent manner.
Conserving a wheeled steam engine
The purpose of this practice note is to provide engineers and others with essential background information on the appropriate process for conserving a wheeled steam engine.
Assessment and conservation of movable heritage
The purpose of this practice note is to provide engineers and others with essential background information on the assessment and conservation of a movable heritage item.
Assessment and conservation of a timber building
The purpose of this practice note is to provide engineers and others with essential background information on the assessment and conservation of a timber heritage building.
If you're a member you can access these technical journals free of charge.
Login to the portal, click on the products and services tab and then choose information resource centre to get access.
We work with publishing house Taylor & Francis to publish technical journals and encourage members to submit their own papers.
Order an Engineers Australia paper
Please fill out the form below to make your request.