About these tools

Archidocky is a set of New Zealand Building Code compliance tools for architects, architectural designers and technicians, building consent officers and students. It reads the Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods a building consent application rests on, and answers one clause at a time. Every value it shows names the paragraph it came from and the edition that paragraph was in.

What it covers

• H1 Energy Efficiency: construction R-value by the calculation method for walls, roofs and floors, windows, and the reference building.

How a number gets here

You should not have to take any of it on trust, so none of it asks you to. These are the rules the work is held to, and each one is something you can check rather than something to believe:

• A table is extracted from its document mechanically and never retyped. A check compares every value back against the document and fails on a single altered digit.
• Every branch in the logic carries the paragraph it comes from. A rule with no reference is a rule nobody can check, so it does not ship.
• Every page names the editions it read, and every printed sheet carries them with the date it was printed. A sheet outlives the edition it came from, so it says which one that was.
• Where a document runs out, or a case needs an engineer, the tool says so and stops. It does not extrapolate and it does not round a minimum down.
• No part of an answer is generated by a language model. A lookup you can point at a table is a tool; a model guessing a flashing cover is a liability.

What this does not do

Compliance is the building consent authority’s finding, not this site’s. These tools read what the documents say so you can put it on a drawing and check it; they do not decide whether a building complies, and nothing here replaces your own reading of the current documents or your conversation with your BCA.

They cover Acceptable Solutions. An Alternative Solution is outside them, and so is any clause not listed on the contents page.

If a number is wrong

Report it with the page, the value and the paragraph you read it against. It is checked against the document, and a correction is published with the date it was made and what changed. A compliance tool that quietly edits a number is worse than one that was wrong in the open.

Manufacturers

Manufacturers pay to appear beside what these tools work out. They never pay to change it. What a document is quoted as saying, which options a requirement leaves open, and the plain version of every detail are settled before any money is involved. A paid product appears as one of the options the Code already allows, never as the only one.