performance-based engineering

Owners are choosing Performance-Based Design because it makes good economic sense.  Using state-of-the-art
construction technology can save in construction costs and results in reducing continued risk financing and damage repair costs that arise from small, frequent earthquakes that make a conventional design less profitable in the long run.

Miyamoto works with world-class architects and corporate clients to design and produce buildings that far exceed minimum code requirements. Performance-based design is integrated into the earliest stages of projects with clearly defined performance goals. Even in the United States, a conventional structure built to code only meets the minimum in terms of earthquake resistance, almost guaranteeing high damage, and more importantly, long business interruption times, in the event of a large earthquake. With performance-based design, buildings are designed with a specific set of client criteria which result in minimized life cycle costs and a client sensitive structure. Property owners are increasingly choosing buildings that will deliver better performance than just the minimal code-prescribed level. They recognize that they can minimize:
  • Business Interruption
  • Loss of market share
  • Property damage
  • Employee injuries
  • Insurance costs
  • Threat to shareholder equity
  • Litigation costs
  • Lost opportunities due to focus on recovery
For new facilities, the resulting state-of-the-art Miyamoto designs not only have lower Probable Maximum Loss (PML) estimates (and correspondingly lower risk financing costs), but often have lower initial construction costs.