Description

A timber design standard available later this year will provide new options for designers and engineers to take advantage of the exciting innovations in engineered wood.

There is a new timber design standard in the works for Aotearoa New Zealand. This will provide ways of designing timber structures that are outside the scope of NZS 3604:2011 Timber-framed buildings, our prescriptive light timber framing standard.

Scope

This article includes:

• Timber building design has changed
• Revision adapts Australian standard
• Big changes to connections
  • Non-potential ductile elements
  • Potential ductile elements
  • Brittle failure mode evaluations
• Other changes in NZS/AS 1720.1
• What’s not included?
• More options for designers to reduce carbon footprint