Senior Structural Engineer
If you live in a modern timber‑framed house, it was built to standards Roger Shelton helped write.
Roger Shelton is a Chartered Professional Engineer specialising in earthquake and timber engineering. A long-standing BRANZ researcher, he is a leading authority on NZS 3604 – the standard for timber-framed buildings.
Roger is now revising NZS 3604 for the third time. He describes it as a "cookbook" of pre-engineered solutions, so builders, designers, and architects can achieve a high structural standard without doing the engineering themselves.
Roger has written extensively for BRANZ on how to apply the standard and has published The Engineering Basis of NZS 3604. He serves on standards committees in New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere, and is a life member of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering.
Roger has also carried out earthquake reconnaissance following major events in Kobe (Japan), Gisborne, and Christchurch, studying why buildings failed.
“My life’s mission is to improve building practice in New Zealand by providing scientifically based technical guidance to the industry.”
Roger Shelton
Senior Structural Engineer
Industry participation
- NZS 3604 (Timber Frame Buildings), standards committee, leading role (current)
- ISO standards committees, leading role
- Joint Australia/New Zealand standards committees, leading role
Professional memberships
Life Member, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
