Hi
I am designing a 'barnage' structure to build at my house here in Dunedin, New Zealand using the traditional timber framing techniques gleened from Ted Bensons fine books. However here in New Zealand we are prone to earthquakes (much like California I suppose?)and as timber framing does not have a history here our council requires full bracing schedules to be presented with the plans and as the size of the individual members I plan to use and their connections to each other are beyond the scope of our 3604 building code (which covers stud frame and masonry buildings)each structure has to be individually engineered.
Are there any good resources out there which could accompany my plans to my local city council for timber spans, loadings, bracing units achieved etc that are in metric and that the good council engineers can refer to without having to convert from imperial (which I'm sure they will be reluctant to do).
Any help on this would be much appreciated.