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The following documents have been put together to provide guidance and instruction on a particular specialty area.
Guidance on installing hydraulic or mechanical platform stacker lifts for car parking.
Guidance on converting non-habitable spaces to habitable.
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:
Guidance information on façades and their construction, weathertightness and compliance with the building code.
Guidance on the process for applying for a code compliance certificate (CCC) on an historic building consent application.
Guidance on making a building consent application involving manufactured modular components.
Guidance on retaining walls, when a building and/or resource consent is required and how they should be designed.
Guidance on making a building consent application involving the use of structural steel.
Guidance on building or renovating a home to create a warm, healthy and resilient dwelling that costs less to run.
Guidance on the four treatment levels, including untreated timber used for the enclosed framing of a house.