earthquake engineering
Cost Effective Innovation is the term coined by Miyamoto to explain our sensitivity to efficient designs. CEI uses a variety of methods to ensure that building owners are penciling the best pricing and most efficient structural systems available. Designing buildings simply "per the code" leads to over-engineering and exaggerated costs for building owners. On the other hand, if the engineering is computer-modeled with CEI efficiency targets in mind, the building's true performance can be calculated and designed accordingly to meet the building owner's ultimate design objective. Miyamoto has dozens of case studies where CEI has saved building owners hundreds of thousands of dollars.