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General information, not building, legal or medical advice. Call Triple Zero (000) in an emergency, or go to the emergency department of your nearest hospital. Each sheet links the official text it relies on: the National Construction Code, the Premises Standards, the NHMRC, the AusHFG and state regulators.

SHEET A-100 · COVER

Medical fitouts, read as a drawing set

A clinic fitout is drawn to more than a brief. Its building class, its access, its infection control and its clinical waste each answer to an official code, law or guideline, and this guide sets them out the way a fitout is documented: as a drawing set, one sheet per question.

A guide published by Dotto from the official sources linked on each page.

Five drawing sheets fanned out in a stack Five sheets of a drawing set, A-101 to A-105, stacked so each one shows its number in its top corner. The front sheet, A-101, shows a small section through a building and a ruled title block in its lower corner. A-105 A-104 A-103 A-102 A-101
The set this guide is laid out as: five sheets, A-101 to A-105, behind this cover.
Set
Medical fitouts
Sheets
A-100 to A-105
Scale
Not to scale
Date checked
8 Oct 2026
Published
By Dotto

Index of sheets

  1. A-101What building class is a clinic?

    How the National Construction Code classes a building by its purpose, Class 9a beside Class 5, the 10% allowance and its laboratory exception, and Victoria’s approvals for a day procedure centre.

  2. A-102Designing for infection control

    The NHMRC guidelines, the AusHFG’s revised Part D and Safe Work Australia’s model code on hand hygiene, finishes, cleaning and airflow.

  3. A-103Access for everyone

    NCC Part D4 and the Disability (Access to Premises - Buildings) Standards 2010: which areas, the way in, accessible parking, and the clear openings HPU 155 gives.

  4. A-104Clinical waste in the fitout

    What counts as clinical waste and how it leaves the building, in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia, each written as that state’s rule.

  5. A-105The health facility guidelines

    How the AusHFG’s Parts, Health Planning Units and Standard Components fit together, and what one unit, HPU 155, asks of a clinic.

General notes

Like the general notes on the first sheet of a set, these hold across the sheets behind them. Each comes from the source its sheet uses.

  1. A building is classified by purpose. “The NCC groups buildings and structures by the purpose for which they are designed, constructed or adapted to be used, assigning each type of building or structure with a classification.” A health-care building, as the NCC defines that term, is Class 9a; whether a clinic is one turns on that definition, which sheet A-101 points to.
  2. In a Class 9a building, unless an area is exempted under D4D5, “access must be provided to and within all areas normally used by the occupants.”
  3. The NHMRC’s infection prevention guidelines were developed for use in all healthcare settings, office-based practices included.
  4. The AusHFG revised their advice on hand hygiene facilities because alcohol-based hand rub is the preferred form of hand hygiene in most clinical settings, and because more is known about the potential for infection to spread from handwash basins.
  5. Clinical waste rules belong to each state. In Victoria, clinical and related industrial waste “must be treated before final disposal”; in New South Wales it is pre-classified as special waste. Other states and territories differ.
  6. In the AusHFG, each Standard Component comes with a room data sheet and a room layout sheet.

Key to the set

Yellow marks a code note: words quoted from a code, standard or law, with the clause they come from. Everything else is paraphrased from an official source, and each sheet lists its sources at its foot, with the date they were checked.

Where a rule belongs to one state, the sheet names that state and says so. The drawings show no real building and no real clinic, and any dimension on them is quoted from the source named beside it.

The sheets describe the rules. For your own project, check with the authority each sheet names: for a building’s class, the appropriate authority, which the NCC gives the discretion to decide where the class is unclear; for the rest, the state’s own health department or environment regulator. Start with sheet A-101, what building class is a clinic.