AS1684 Residential timber framed construction is the primary standard for the design and specification of residential timber framed construction in Australia. It is used widely by all building professionals: engineers, architects, building designers, building surveyors, regulators, educators - and of course builders.
A series of three free WoodSolutions Webinars (held monthly) will provide, from the experts, an overview of AS1684, the key understandings that you need to use the standard properly, and explanation of the areas that are sometimes misinterpreted or not well understood.
This, the first webinar of this series is delivered by one of industry’s most well-known educational authorities, Mr Lex Somerville. This webinar covers AS1684’s Scope and Framing Member Sizing sections.
Though 45min is limited for this detailed topic, Lex provided the ‘pearls of wisdom’ of what users need to know about using AS1684 for framing. He addresses and discusses the questions he gets regularly from users, and provides examples of things done correctly and incorrectly in timber framed construction.