NZS 4299:2024
Earth buildings not requiring specific design
Standards New Zealand
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Sections
- 1Scope and interpretation
- 2General
- 3Site requirements
- 4Bracing demand
- 5Footings and concrete slab on ground
- 6Walls
- 7Structural diaphragms
- 8Bond beams
- 9Lintels
- 10Wall openings and fixings
- 11Control joints
- 12Earth floors
- A− Basis of engineering design
- B− Worked example
- DLight earth method or LEM
- EStraw-bale construction
- F− Internal adobe brick veneer
- G− Maintenance schedule for earth walls