Description

This bulletin is a design guide for one-off stand-alone timber-framed garages constructed on a concrete slab on good ground, built to NZS 3604:2011 Timber-framed buildings and not intended for use as a habitable space.

The design of proprietary garages is outside the scope of this bulletin, but a number of its recommendations may be applied to their design.

Scope

The bulletin covers:

• New Zealand Building Code requirements
• general requirements, including consents, non-specific structural design, specific engineering design, durability, sizes and floor design loads
• floor construction
• wall construction
• roof construction
• wall claddings
• roof claddings.