Fixings rationalised
Fixings are the Achilles heel of timber buildings. Wind and other damaging hazards find the weakest link in the building, and failure will start there. This is almost always the fixings.
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Fixings are the Achilles heel of timber buildings. Wind and other damaging hazards find the weakest link in the building, and failure will start there. This is almost always the fixings.
The citing of AS/NZS 1170 Structural design actions in December 2008 introduced a number of changes to snow loading on buildings, and these have resulted in changes in NZS 3604.
NZS 3604:2011 will be cited later this year, so you need to know what the changes are.