BU557 Timber-framed garages (2013)
Product Description
This bulletin is a design guide for one-off stand-alone timber-framed garages constructed on a concrete slab on good ground, built to NZS 3604:2011 Timber-framed buildings and not intended for use as a habitable space.
The design of proprietary garages is outside the scope of this bulletin, but a number of its recommendations may be applied to their design.
This bulletin updates and replaces Bulletin 395 of the same name.
The bulletin covers:
- New Zealand Building Code requirements
- general requirements, including consents, non-specific structural design, specific engineering design, durability, sizes and floor design loads
- floor construction
- wall construction
- roof construction
- wall claddings
- roof claddings.