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Ecoply Specification and Installation Guide

The information in this guide relates to Ecoply Structural Square Edge, Ecoply Flooring and Ecoply Roofing.

Ecoply is New Zealand’s leading brand of structural plywood. The Ecoply brand includes a wide range of appearance and performance-rated plywood products providing durability, strength and design flexibility.

Ecoply Barrier Specification and Installation Guide

The information in this guide relates to Ecoply Barrier.

The Ecoply Barrier System provides a weathertight rigid air barrier for drained and vented cavity systems outside the building frame. This effectively replaces traditional building wrap in the cavity, while providing structural bracing and forming a strong secondary line of defence against moisture penetration into the building envelope.

Ecoply Grooved Lining Guide

The information in this guide relates to Ecoply® Grooved Lining, which is an untreated plywood panel suitable for internal use as wall and ceiling linings. Appearance grade with a solid sanded surface with V-groove profile.

Batten & Cradle™ Acoustiflor™ System Specification & Installation Guide

Carter Holt Harvey Plywood Ltd together with Carter Holt Harvey LVL Ltd, trading as Futurebuild® LVL, and B&C Systems International Limited (Batten and Cradle™) have developed a lightweight floor system that is suitable for use as an inter-tenancy floor.

Case Studies

Kaikoura Island Prefabricated Lodge

The collaboration between Architecture+Women-NZ and Strachan Group Architects (SGA) has been a successful partnership between timber products and great prefabricated design.

The Architect, The Builder and The Homeowner - Ecoply Barrier

Zane Raphael of Smith & Sons, renovation and extension specialists, moved his family into a 1960s Auckland home with plans to renovate and create a safe, healthy, dream home for his family.

Vital Support Where It Counts

Vision West Community Housing provides short term and long term supported rental housing in West Auckland. Their aim is to provide safe, healthy, affordable, quality rental housing for low-income families. Ecoply Barrier was the obvious solution for this project as it could benefit the complete build with its bracing properties, speed of installation and weather-tightness.

Wrapped Up For Winter

Ecoply Barrier was used as protection against the elements down south.

Deep South Higher Education

A generous outdoor plaza is at the heart of a significant addition to the Otago University campus.

Braced for the Elements

A new family home, situated by the ocean, in the extra high wind zone of the Taranaki region required an upgrade from a standard rigid air barrier board to Ecoply Barrier.

Braced For All Levels

A three-storey home situated on the slopes of Titirangi's Wood Bay utilised the benefits of Ecoply Barrier for quick enclosure along with the added bracing of a rigid air barrier system.

Brace for the Future

Ecoply Barrier was used in place of building wrap to create a fully drained and vented rigid air barrier. With the growing awareness around leaky building a requirement for the Kaplan International College new residence bulding in Christchurch was to provide not only a building which was cost effective but one which had increased protection against leaks into the building envelope, especially given the building is located in a high wind zone area.

Information Bulletins

Ecoply CHH Verified Your Mark of Quality and Support

CHH Plywood have developed the CHH Verified programme to support its shift away from manufacture. This Information Bulletin further elaborates on the three pillars of the programme including:
1. CHH Plywood Quality Control Programme;
2. Product Specific Literature certified by CHH’s Internal Chartered Professional Engineers; and
3. In-market specification and product support through CHH’s Specification Team and Account Managers

Technical Notes

Ecoply Bracing Amended Nailing Pattern Technical Note

This Technical Note provides an updated nailing pattern to suit Ecoply Square Edge products used in bracing applications.

Ecoply Not All Plywood is Created Equal Technical Note

There is a common misconception in-market that all plywood products of the same nominal thickness (e.g. 12mm or 19mm plywood), manufactured to AS/NZS 2269.0 are the same and can be substituted with minimal significant difference in performance. This Technical Note discusses the effects of substitution and performance-based plywood products.