Frequently Asked Questions
A subscription plan enables access to a library of resources including the industry benchmark practice for waterproofing, a powerful search engine, and a workspace to bookmark, annotate, save and share material. Once you have a subscription plan you are eligible to purchase add-ons. The add-ons include the National Construction Code primary referenced standards, and other sets of Australian Standards.
Bronze Subscription 1 to 4 users
Silver Subscription 5 to 10 users
Gold Subscription 11 to 19 users
Platinum Subscription 20 to 50 users
Subscription plans are for 1 year and automatically renew after 12 months.
Subscription add-on packs are available in 1, 2, or 3 year periods.
Each add-on pack purchased allows 2, 3, or 4 users to access the NCC Primary References Set simultaneously. These users are nominated by their subscription manager.
Up to 10 users may access the NCC Primary References Large Business Set simultaneously. These users are nominated by their subscription manager.
Each pack purchased allows 2, 3, or 4 users to access the Building Essentials sets.
Subscribers may select 1, 2 or 3 year subscription periods.
Each pack purchased allows 2, 3, or 4 users to access the Trade Sets.
BIG provides access to the current National Construction Code 2022.
You can read more for information about the NCC 2022, and to find out what volumes of the code are included.
Use the purple account icon to Login to your account, and to Add a New User to your organisation.
Click here for more information.
Click Contact us at the bottom of the page, submit the online form, and a member of the BIG team will get in touch.
Finding documents is easy, at the top of the site is the search bar.
Click here to learn how to use the Search Bar, filter results, use badges, and filter by Current Results.
Documents on BIG are displayed in the DocViewer.
Click here to learn about the DocViewer, Item page, VIEW tab, INFO tab, and Related Links.
Click here to learn how to switch between Desktop and Mobile versions of a document, expand DocViewer to Full Screen, Scroll or Pan a document, Enlarge Text, change the View of a document, choose Page Numbers in a document, Search a document, learn about the DocViewer's Side Bar, and Search in the DocViewer.
The Workspace is your organisation's base in BIG. Just login and your Workspace is available in the menu.
In the Workspace, you can add folders to suit your organisation, clients, projects, sites, and resources. To save copies of documents, just 'Select a copy or add to folder' in the DocViewer.
The Workspace also has your Recent documents, private Bookmarks, shared Annotations, and all the resources in your Collections.
Click here to learn more about this how powerful the Workspace is as a tool for your organisation.
BIG includes annotation functionality for all our documents in the Library.
You'll need to login and be subscribed to annotate the documents in the DocViewer.Everyone in your subscription can create, read, share and comment on annotations. It allows online collaboration and discussions.
There are many annotation types to use, with Annotate, Shapes, Insert, Fill and Sign, and Comments toolbars, and also Print, Download, Share functionality when permitted.
Click here to read the detailed Annotate FAQ.
BIG collects all the documents you hold when subscribed. Collections displays all the BIG documents your subscription allows access to.
You’ll need to login to view the Collections tab in the Workspace.
Click here to read the Collections FAQ.
Use Bookmarks in your Workspace to quickly access important or regularly used pages in a document.
Bookmarks are private to each user.
Click here to learn how to Add, Edit and Delete bookmarks in the Bookmarks FAQ.
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