The design guides were developed by NZ Wood (a consortium of the timber industry) and were hosted by the WPMA, who have now kindly passed them over to Timber Unlimited for development and improvement. Since the handover, we have started reviewing and updating selected guidelines.
Our intent and ongoing commitment is to keep progressing, refining and updating all of them over the next few years to ensure easily accessible best practice guidance is provided to the industry.
This guide will provide all you need to know about tree species, forestry, timber products and more.
This guide explores the environmental sustainability dimension of wood, with a specific focus on the carbon benefits of using wood in construction.
This guide will highlight the significant environmental benefits that building with wood can provide.
The aim of this guide is to provide a standardised approach that takes on board the factors that impact on costs in a pragmatic approach. Understanding what aspects drive the structural design decision will improve the assumption basis of estimates.
This guide aims to explore for better understanding, prefabrication and the strengths of various timber systems on offer.
This guide provides information on compliance, regulatory frameworks, building codes, consents and advice on how to resolve problems.
The focus of this guide is to endorse productivity increase with prefabricated timber systems.
This design guide gives the background to specific engineering designs of timber buildings for earthquake loads and describes how seismic calculations for bracing can be made.
This guide includes comprehensive information on how to design timber buildings with fire safety front of mind.
This guide discusses common design situations where design strength may be compromised and provides reinforcement techniques and design methods to avoid premature failure.
This design guide is an introductory design guide around the fundamentals of acoustics in multi-residential timber buildings.
