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Sources for the Red Beech record
The useful question is not only “what is the source?” It is also “what does it support, and what would be an overreach?”
Identity and forest context
Red Beech as a species
Botanical factsheet
Fuscospora fusca
New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
Supports: the common name Red Beech, accepted botanical name, endemic status, distribution and taxonomic synonym.
Limit: a species record does not establish timber-product performance or the source of a particular board.
Public conservation overview
Beech forest
Department of Conservation
Supports: public context for New Zealand’s five southern beech species and the environments associated with Red Beech.
Limit: forest ecology is not evidence for a finished decking product or its supply chain.
Building and decking context
Durability and wet-surface questions
Cited New Zealand Standard
NZS 3602:2003 — Timber and wood-based products for use in building
Standards New Zealand · sponsored access via Building CodeHub
Supports: the exact table entry for beech, including Red Beech, in dressing-heart grade and without preservative treatment for replaceable unroofed decking.
Limit: its scope and conditions apply. It is not a product certificate, project design or universal service-life guarantee.
Current acceptable solution
B2/AS1, Third Edition
Building Performance · Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Supports: the current B2 durability acceptable-solution context and its reference to NZS 3602:2003.
Limit: the applicable document version, pathway, scope and project conditions still need to be checked.
Access-route acceptable solution
D1/AS1 — Access routes
Building Performance · Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
Supports: why wet-slip context, timber surface, profile, coating, slope and direction of travel must be considered.
Limit: it is not a test of Innate’s current board and does not establish suitability for a particular access route.
Legal-source context
Buying and selling indigenous timber
Government guidance
Buying and selling native timber
Ministry for Primary Industries
Supports: the legal approval pathways for harvesting and milling native timber, and MPI’s guidance about approval numbers in online sale listings.
Limit: the existence of a regulatory pathway does not prove the source of a particular batch. That requires a current applicable record linked to the timber offered.
Industry corroboration
Timber-use context
Industry species guide
Red Beech
New Zealand Farm Forestry Association
Supports: independent industry context for Red Beech timber and exterior applications.
Limit: this is not an Innate product test, batch record or substitute for the exact NZS 3602 pathway and project review.
Source policy
How this register is maintained
Links are checked before publication, but a working link does not prove that wording remains current. Every material statement is reviewed against the source itself, then kept at the level the source can support.
Supplier information and Innate’s own observations may help define product questions. They are not presented here as independent evidence. Private approval documents, supplier identities and batch details remain private unless there is a clear reason and permission to publish them.
Sources and wording last checked 25 July 2026.
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