This Standard specifies requirements for the manufacture and grading of structural plywood. The Standard specifies veneer quality, bond quality, dimensional tolerances, joints, moisture content, visual grading rules and basic working stresses for the nominated stress grades as well as alternative methods for the determination of stress grades. Five surface grades, A, S, B, C and D, and one bond quality, Type bond, are prescribed.

First published in Australia in part as AS O85-1969. AS O89 first published 1973. AS O85-1969 and AS O89-1973 revised, amalgamated and redesignated AS 2269-1979. First published in New Zealand as NZS 3614-1971. AS 2269-1979 and NZS 3614:1971 jointly revised and designated as Joint Standard AS/NZS 2269:1994.