AS 1720 Timber Structures - Western Australia

You may need to comply with this standard if you intend to use timber structures in electrical networks.

This standard provides:

• code of practice for the design and acceptance of timber structures and elements, and includes design methods and design data appropriate for commonly encountered structural elements and materials and requirements to be met for specification of the design, installation and maintenance of timber structures
• a list of structural timbers and their properties, and an extensive explanation of the list.

This standard comprises:

• AS 1720.1-2010 Timber structures - Design methods
• AS 1720.2-2006 Timber structures - Timber properties.