Secura™ Flooring
- Abbreviation
- Appraisal number 850 (2025)
- Valid from
- 20/02/2025
- Information provider
- BRANZ Limited,
- Author
- Building Research Association NZ (BRANZ)
- Information type
- BRANZ Appraisal,
- Format
- PDF,
Description
Secura™ Flooring is a fibre cement structural flooring material for the interior flooring of residential and light commercial buildings.
Secura™ Flooring is suitable for use as a general flooring and is also for use in wet areas such as bathrooms, toilets, laundries and kitchens. It is a substrate for most flooring finishes such as tiles, vinyl, other impervious flooring and carpet.
Scope
1. Secura™ Flooring has been appraised for use as a sheet flooring material and structural floor diaphragm on suspended internal timber-framed floors of residential and light commercial buildings that have been designed and constructed in accordance with NZS 3604, Section 7.
2. Secura™ Flooring has also been appraised for use as a sheet flooring material on suspended timber and steel-framed floors of residential buildings subject to specific engineering design (SED) where the floor loads do not exceed those specified in AS/NZS 1170.1, Table 3.1, Category A1 or B (up to, and including, 3 kPa uniformly distributed (UDL) floor load or 2.7 kN point load).