Miyamoto International

The Miyamoto + Cardnol team is dedicated to bringing expert solutions to the Canterbury Earthquake recovery and rebuilding effort in New Zealand.  Miyamoto + Cardno provides critical services that sustain industries and communities around the world with 160 locations throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe. A uniquely qualified alliance of experts,  Miyamoto + Cardno combines earthquake, civil and structural engineering to address the needs of New Zealand’s earthquake vulnerable regions.  Miyamoto + Cardno provides high quality deliverables through a collaboration of engineers and leading technical experts.

Governments, developers and owners are choosing high performance earthquake engineering because it sustains their greatest assets and makes good economic sense. Using state-of-the-art engineering and building practices can save in construction costs and result in a reduction in continued risk of financing and damage repair costs that arise from small, frequent and major earthquakes, making a conventional design less profitable in the long run.  Miyamoto + Cardno works with world-class architects, contractors and clients to design and produce buildings that far exceed minimum code requirements. Highperformance earthquake engineering is integrated into the earliest stages of projects with clearly defined performance goals. Lessons learned from the performance of buildings around the world, illustrate how conventional structures built to code only provide minimal earthquake resistance, almost guaranteeing high damage, and more importantly, long business interruption times, in the event of a large earthquake. With high-performance earthquake engineering, buildings are designed with a specific set of client criteria, which result in minimized life-cycle costs and a client sensitive structure. Governments and property owners are increasingly choosing buildings that will deliver better performance than the minimal code-prescribed level. They recognize that they can minimize:

• Business Interruption
• Loss of market share
• Employee injuries
• Insurance costs
• Threat to shareholder equity
• Litigation costs
• Lost opportunities due to focus on recovery

For new and existing facilities, the resulting state-of-the-art  Miyamoto + Cardno designs not only have lower Probable Maximum Loss (PML) estimates (and correspondingly lower risk financing costs), but often have lower initial construction costs.