Performance-Based Timber Engineering Research at BRANZ

Every year BRANZ invests the Building Research Levy for the benefit of the New Zealand building and constructionindustry. The Building Research Levy is an activity-based levy that is collected in proportion to the value of all work thatis subject to a Building Consent. Part of this funding pays for the research programme that BRANZ conducts. This overallresearch programme includes a stream of work in the area of performance-based timber engineering. In this article abrief description is provided of current research projects in this subject area.