目标是为建筑许可机构提供核心资源，以确定是否符合新西兰建筑规范（NZBC），并为设计师、建筑商、业主建筑商和其他参与在新西兰和世界其他地方成功建造土墙建筑的人员提供指导。迄今为止，没有任何按照这套标准建造的土楼出现故障。在建筑环境的可持续性和脱碳性受到审查的时候，土墙建筑仍然具有重要意义。 土制材料加工简单，毒性低，可在当地购买。？这将鼓励并使脱碳建筑行业能够吸收当地低能耗的土材料。修订后的标准仍然是一个核心资源，反映了地球建筑实践、研究、参考标准的变化以及建筑立法的变化:2004年《建筑法》和《新西兰建筑规范》的进展。

Objective is to provide a core resource for building consent authorities determining compliance with the New Zealand Building Code (NZBC) and has given guidance to designers, builders, owner-builders and others involved in the construction of successful earth walled buildings in New Zealand, and elsewhere around the world. There has been no failure reported to date of any earth building built in accordance with this suite of standards. Earth walled construction continues to be relevant at a time when the sustainability and decarbonising of the built environment is under scrutiny. Earthen materials are minimally processed, have low toxicity, and are available locally.¿¿ This will encourage and enable the uptake of local earthen materials with very low embodied energy within a decarbonising building industry. The revised standard continues to be a core resource and reflect advances in earth building practice, research, changes in referenced standards, and changes in building legislation: the Building Act 2004 and the New Zealand Building Code.