Standards and Guidance DocumentsHigh Level Strategy DocumentsPublicly Available Case StudiesPublished Research PapersProject Member only files
Ministry of Health
New Zealand Health Strategy 2016
The National Asset Management Programme for district health boards – Report 1: The current state assessment + appendix
New Zealand Health Facility Design Guidance Note
Design Guidance Note: Fire Engineering Design for New Zealand Public Hospitals – Webinar recording available
Technical guidance for the seismic and structural design of hospital buildings (Draft)
Technical Guidelines for the design of buildings services in Hospitals
Priority response agreement templates
National Health Emergency Plan
Mass Casualty Action Plan 2011
Design guidance at a glance – relations with Australasian Health Infrastructure Alliance (AHIA), and Australian Health Facility Design Guidelines (AusHFG)
Design Assurance at a glance
Various District Health Boards
Seismic action plan
Mass casualty plan (e.g. CPRG)
Standards New Zealand
NZS 1170.5: 2004 – Structural Design Actions Part 5: Earthquake Actions
NZS 4219: 2009 – Seismic Performance of Engineering Systems in Buildings
NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering
2019 “Draft” Base Isolation Guideline
Resilient Design guidelines
SESOC - Structural Engineering Society for New Zealand
Low damage design guidelines
Design Feature Reports
NZ Industry nonlinear response history analysis guidelines
MBIE - Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
NZ Building Code (B1 Structure)
Acceptable solutions and Verification
NZCIC - New Zealand Construction Industry Council
NZCIC Guidelines
NZ Concrete Society / CCANZ
Red book – Example of Concrete Structural Design to NZS 3101
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
National Civil Defence Emergency Plan 2015
Guide to NCDEM Plan
National Disaster Resilience Strategy
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
National Risk Framework
Galbraith Block Middlemore Hospital
Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission
Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission Report Volume 1 – Good summary of the design philosophy in NZ
McIntosh, J. K.
Review of the Impact of the February 22nd Earthquake on the Canterbury Health Care System – A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geology at the University of Canterbury
Dropbox Link – Please contact Quincy for password