Skip to main content
Reduced services
More Many of our services are closed over Christmas but our contact centre will prioritise urgent safety calls. Check our website or read Our Auckland for information on services that are closed or reduced over summer - Learn moreReduced services

Ngā tuhinga ārahi hangarau

Technical guidance documents

The following documents have been put together to provide guidance and instruction on a particular specialty area.

​Car platform stacking devices

Guidance on installing hydraulic or mechanical platform stacker lifts for car parking.

​Converting non-habitable spaces to habitable

Guidance on converting non-habitable spaces to habitable.

​Façade construction

Guidance information on façades and their construction, weathertightness and compliance with the building code.

​Historic building consents

Guidance on the process for applying for a code compliance certificate (CCC) on an historic building consent application.

​Manufactured modular component

Guidance on making a building consent application involving manufactured modular components.

​Retaining walls

Guidance on retaining walls, when a building and/or resource consent is required and how they should be designed.

​Structural steel

Guidance on making a building consent application involving the use of structural steel.

Sustainable home design guide

​Guidance on building or renovating a home to create a warm, healthy and resilient dwelling that costs less to run.

​Timber treatment

Guidance on the four treatment levels, including untreated timber used for the enclosed framing of a house.

Related topics