NZS AS 1720.1:2022 standard review

NZS AS 1720.1:2022 Timber Structures, Part 1

Design methods was published by Standards New Zealand on 31st October 2022 and is currently available from the Standards NZ website. It supersedes NZS 3603:1993 and has long been awaited by the design and specification community in New Zealand.

In the latter half of October 2022 the Timber Design Society conducted a national roadshow that focused on raising awareness and understanding of the new NZS AS 1720.1:2022 and fire design to AS/NZS 1720.4.

As part of this process, Timber Unlimited welcomes industry feedback to identify its oversights, omissions, and gaps with the aim of recommending how best to improve and make it truly useful to the industry.

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Please use the form below to contribute feedback on these standards, letting us know where, what and why the feedback is required. While we ask for your personal details, this feedback will not be publicly shared and is for the purposes of further clarification by Timber Unlimited. 

Please note that, as of October 2024, we are still collecting feedback on NZS AS 1720.1:2022, which will be passed onto Standards New Zealand. However, we are not responding to individual submissions, nor are we updating the errata list on the website.

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