Pacific Plaza

9-Story Pre-cast Office Building and Two 7-Story Parking Garages – A Precast Hybrid Moment Resistant Frame (PHMRF) project.

Design and construction technologies are seldom used unless they can be economically justified. Private-sector building projects, in particular, have little room for technological innovation purely for the sake of advancing the building process.

The precast hybrid moment-resistant frame (PHMRF) is a concrete structural system that incorporates a column/beam connection that provides both elastic and inelastic action at the joint to enable a structure to withstand earthquakes. It is an example of a recently developed technology that is proving to be both economically and structurally viable.