NZS 3604

NZS 3604, titled Timber-framed buildings, is a New Zealand technical standard maintained by Standards New Zealand that sets out specifications and methods for designing and constructing light timber framed houses and other low rise buildings. Used together with the Building Code, it allows light timber framed residential and small commercial buildings of up to three storeys to be built on suitable ground without individual structural engineering calculations, and it is used in about 93 percent of New Zealand's light timber framed construction. In 2019 the government funded free online access to the standard to reduce building compliance costs and improve its availability across the construction sector. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/