C5 – Concrete Buildings

The revisions encompass new guidance on assessing precast concrete floor systems to take account of findings from the ReCast Floors project. The revisions also seek to incorporate state-of-the-art approaches for assessment of concrete buildings drawn from local and international research, and from international assessment guidance. Errors and internal inconsistencies identified in the November 2018 version have been corrected. Section numbering has been added for 5th and 6th level headings to aid referencing specific parts of the guidance.

This document should NOT be used for an assessment that a territorial authority will use to decide is a building is earthquake-prone. Seismic Assessment Guidelines for potentially earthquake-prone buildings can be found on MBIE’s website.