Resilient Timber Homes

Technical Design Guide 56
WS TDG Resilient Timber Homes
This Guide describes how sustainable timber homes can be designed and built with a resilience-focused Code+ approach, leveraging the combination of factors that make them the natural answer to the challenges from our changing climate, and provide safety and wellness to their occupants.

Introduction

This Guide presents comprehensive checklists and relevant details for designing, repairing, and constructing Resilient Timber Homes in Australia, demonstrating how they can be designed and built with a resilience-focused “Code+” approach to providing better safety and wellness for their occupants, while meeting triple-bottom-line (people, planet and profits) sustainability objectives, as well as creating increased value for both investors and the broader community.

The primary objective of this Guide is to demonstrate and explain the applicable compliance pathways, provide relevant generic details explaining how ‘specific hazard-area building practice fundamentals’ logically integrate with timber products, and achieve sustainability benefits.