AS/NZS 1388:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Guidelines for technical

information for building and
construction products
 AS/NZS 1388:1994

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee BD/52, Trade and Technical Literature for the Building Industry. It was
approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 15 September 1994 and
on behalf of the Council of Standards New Zealand on 19 September 1994. It was
published on 5 December 1994.

The following interests are represented on Committee BD/52:

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Australian Department of Administrative Services

Australian Institute of Building
Australian Institute of Construction Specifiers
Building Research Association of New Zealand
CSIRO—Division of Building, Construction & Engineering, Australia
Royal Australian Institute of Architects

Review of Standards. To keep abreast of progress in industry, Joint Australian/

New Zealand Standards are subject to periodic review and are kept up to date by the
issue of amendments or new editions as necessary. It is important therefore that
Standards users ensure that they are in possession of the latest edition, and any
amendments thereto.
Full details of all Joint Standards and related publications will be found in the
Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand Catalogue of Publications; this
information is supplemented each month by the magazines ‘The Australian Standard’
and ‘Standards New Zealand’, which subscribing members receive, and which give
details of new publications, new editions and amendments, and of withdrawn
Standards.
Suggestions for improvements to Joint Standards, addressed to the head office of either
Standards Australia or Standards New Zealand, are welcomed. Notification of any
inaccuracy or ambiguity found in a Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard should be
made without delay in order that the matter may be investigated and appropriate action
taken.

This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 91229.

 AS/NZS 1388:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Guidelines for technical

information for building and
construction products

First publi shed in Austr alia as AS 1388— 1974.

Jointl y revised and designated as Joint Standard
AS/NZS 1388:1994.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
1 The Crescent,
Homebush NSW 2140 Australia

STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

Level 10, Standards House,
155 The Terrace,
Wellington 6001 New Zealand
ISBN 0 7262 9325 3
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand
Committee BD/52 on Trade and Technical Literature for the Building Industry to
supersede AS 1388— 1974, Recommendations for trade and technical literature for the
building industry.
The objective of this Standard is to provide producers of literature for the building and
construction industries with guidelines for presenting technical information so that the
information can be in a clear and structured form.
The term ‘informative’ has been used in this Standard to define the application of the
appendix to which it applies. An ‘informative’ appendix is only for information and
guidance.
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 Copyright STANDARDS AUSTRALIA/ STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

Users of Standards are reminded that copyright subsists in all Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand publications and software.
Except where the Copyright Act allows and except where provided for below no publications or software produced by
Standards Australia or Standards New Zealand may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system in any form or transmitted by any means
without prior permission in writing from Standards Australia or Standards New Zealand. Permission may be conditional on an appropriate
royalty payment. Australian requests for permission and information on commercial software royalties should be directed to the head
office of Standards Australia. New Zealand requests should be directed to Standards New Zealand.
Up to 10 percent of the technical content pages of a Standard may be copied for use exclusively in-house by purchasers of the
Standard without payment of a royalty or advice to Standards Australia or Standards New Zealand.
Inclusion of copyright material in computer software programs is also permitted without royalty payment provided such programs
are used exclusively in-house by the creators of the programs.
Care should be taken to ensure that material used is from the current edition of the Standard and that it is updated whenever the Standard
is amended or revised. The number and date of the Standard should therefore be clearly identified.
The use of material in print form or in computer software programs to be used commercially, with or without payment, or in commercial
contracts is subject to the payment of a royalty. This policy may be varied by Standards Australia or Standards New Zealand at any time.
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CONTENTS
Page

SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL

1.1 SCOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. ... ...... 5
1.2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ....... ... ... 5
1.3 DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. .. .. ... . 5
1.4 TYPES OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION . . . . . . . .. .. ... .. ...... 6
1.5 PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ....... ... ... 6

SECTION 2 CONTENT
2.1 GENERAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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2.2 ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.3 COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF MANUFACTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4 PRODUCT TRADE NAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.5 DATE OF ISSUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.6 REFERENCE IDENTIFIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.7 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION USING KEYWORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.8 DETAILED PRODUCT DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.9 LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.10 STATEMENT OF LIMITATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.11 AUTHORITY OF INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.12 ACCREDITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.13 BUILDING CODE COMPLIANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.14 MAINTENANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.15 WARRANTIES, CONTRACTORS’ ACCREDITATION AND
SERVICING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.16 SUPPLIERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.17 DELIVERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

SECTION 3 PRODUCTION
3.1 PRINTED MATERIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2 MICROFICHE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3 ELECTRONIC MEDIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

SECTION 4 PRESENTATION AND STYLE

4.1 GENERAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2 PAGE HEADERS AND FOOTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3 SECTION IDENTIFICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4 CONTENTS LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.5 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.6 DOCUMENT NUMBER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.7 ILLUSTRATIONS, TECHNICAL DRAWINGS, TABLES AND CHARTS 10
4.8 PHOTOGRAPHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.9 TYPOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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4.10 UNITS OF MEASUREMENT AND PRESENTATION . . . .. . . .. .. . . . 11

4.11 TECHNICAL TERMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. . . . 11
4.12 ANNOTATIONS AND CODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. . . . 11
4.13 DOCUMENT TITLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . 11
4.14 LANGUAGE STYLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . 11

APPENDICES
A DETAILED PRODUCT DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
B LIST OF RELATED DOCUMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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STANDARDS AUSTRALIA / STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

Australian/New Zealand Standard

Guidelines for technical information for building
and construction products

S E C T I O N 1 S CO P E A N D G E NE R A L

1.1 SCOPE This Standard sets out guidelines for content and presentation of technical
information on products intended for use in the building and construction industries.
This Standard does not cover commercial information.
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1.2 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS

AS
1000 The International System of Units (SI) and its application
1100 Technical drawing (all parts)
1101 Graphical symbols for general engineering (all parts)
1155 Metric units for use in the construction industry
1612 Paper sizes
1998 A6 microfiche for engineering and other data (excluding computer output
microfiche)
P5 Punching patterns for round holes used in files and loose leaf binders.
NZMP
4212 Glossary of building terminology
NZS/AS
1100 Technical drawing (all parts)
1101 Graphical symbols for engineering
1101.3 Part 3: Welding and non-destructive examination
NZS
6501 Units of measurement
SAA
HB23 Thesaurus of Australian construction terms
HB25 Australian building and construction definitions
HB50 Glossary of building terms

1.3 DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this Standard, the definitions below apply.
1.3.1 Binder — a hard cover with spine for loose-leaf pamphlets, e.g. A4 ring binder.
1.3.2 Book — a document which has covers and a spine.
1.3.3 Booklet — a document which has covers but no spine.
1.3.4 Document — a self -contained publication, suff iciently complete to be compre-
hended on its own.

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