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Technical guidance documents
The following documents have been put together to provide guidance and instruction on a particular specialty area.
Car platform stacking devices
Guidance on installing hydraulic or mechanical platform stacker lifts for car parking.
Converting non-habitable spaces to habitable
Guidance on converting non-habitable spaces to habitable.
Demonstrating compliance
This guide explains how to show your building work complies with the New Zealand Building Code when you apply for a building consent.
It applies to:
- projects that use accepted solutions and
- projects that use alternative solutions.
Façade construction
Guidance information on façades and their construction, weathertightness and compliance with the building code.
Historic building consents
Guidance on the process for applying for a code compliance certificate (CCC) on an historic building consent application.
Manufactured modular component
Guidance on making a building consent application involving manufactured modular components.
Retaining walls
Guidance on retaining walls, when a building and/or resource consent is required and how they should be designed.
Structural steel
Guidance on making a building consent application involving the use of structural steel.
Sustainable home design guide
Guidance on building or renovating a home to create a warm, healthy and resilient dwelling that costs less to run.
Timber treatment
Guidance on the four treatment levels, including untreated timber used for the enclosed framing of a house.
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