The NZ Wood Design Guides are a comprehensive series of best-practice technical booklets and resources. They were created by the timber industry to help architects, engineers, and builders design modern, mid-rise, and multi-storey timber buildings that align with New Zealand standards.
From fire and moisture to acoustics and structural design, these guides provide practical, evidence-based guidance for designing with timber.
This document provides an overview of all available NZ Wood Guides and chapter themes included in each.
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 raises awareness of the risks to anyone involved in erecting prefabricated timber framing designed in accordance with NZS 3604: 2011 Timber-framed buildings.
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 guide focuses on multi-storey construction that utilises massive timber beam and column elements as the primary gravity load-carrying system.
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 focuses on the detailing and layout of a range of common moment connections used between a column and rafter or beam for laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and glue laminated timber (Glulam).
This guide discusses common design situations where design strength may be compromised and provides reinforcement techniques and design methods to avoid premature failure.
A summary of recommended errata applicable to the NZ Wood Guide: Reinforcement of Timber Members.
This design guide is an introductory design guide around the fundamentals of acoustics in multi-residential timber buildings.
This guide includes comprehensive information on how to design timber buildings with fire safety front of mind.
