Acceptable Solutions and Verification Methods (AS and VMs) were called compliance documents. Some still have the “compliance document” title but the AS or VMs they contain are valid and unaffected by the name change.
1st edition, amendment 16
Effective on 3 April 2018 until 31 March 2019
B1/VM1 is amended to reference NZS 3101:2006 Amendment 3. Allowance is made in B1/VM1 for the continued use of cast iron anchors and couplers until 1 November 2018.
B1/VM1 modifies the citation of NZS 3404:1997 to update design and construction requirements for steel structures. Twelve Standards are referenced in B1/VM1 that provide these updated requirements.
Duplicate provisions are deleted from B1/VM1 and errors are corrected in B1/VM4.