AS/NZS 2269.0:2012

Specifies minimum performance requirements and specifications for the manufacture and application of structural plywood, acceptable to users, specifiers, manufacturers, and building authorities in Australia and New Zealand.

This Standard specifies requirements for the manufacture, grading, finishing and branding of structural plywood. Specifications for both stress and surface grades are also provided. The Standard also specifies veneer quality, bond quality, standard lay-up construction, dimensional tolerances, joints, moisture content and characteristic strength and stiffness values for the nominated F-grades. The following alternative methods for the determination of stress grades for structural plywood are also provided:(a)Mechanical F-grading of the finished sheet of plywood.(b)In-grade testing of finished plywood panels.Five surface grades, based on the veneer quality of the face and back veneers, A, S, B, C and D and one bond quality, Type A bond, are prescribed.

Originated in Australia in part as AS O85-1969.

AS O89 first published 1973.

AS O85-1969 and AS O89-1973 revised, amalgamated and redesignated as AS 2269-1979.

First published in New Zealand as NZS 3614-1971.

AS 2269-1979 and NZS 3614:1971 jointly revised and designated as AS/NZS 2269:1994.

Third edition 2004.

AS/NZS 2269:2004 revised and redesignated as AS/NZS 2269.0:2008.

Second edition 2012.

Reissued incorporating Amendment No. 1 (August 2015).