The Malayan Plaza

The Malayan Plaza (14.586491000000027,121.060045) is a building of mixed function: a residential condominium and a hotel. 

The building is forty-storey high (145 meters), with helipad, and with six basement floors.

The structure is made of structural steel elements with shear walls.  Thus, it is a Steel Moment Resisting Frame (SMRF).

The Architect of the building is Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum.

Originally was supposed to be 50 storeys.  

It now welcomes the world as a property managed by the Quantum Group.

In the point of view of a structural engineer, the weights or loads considered here varies; thus, the type of occupancy will be different.

So to appease the engineer’s difficulty in predicting the building’s response, he must have the data that verifies his analytical model responses to that of measurements by an accelerograph.  

In the occupant’s viewpoint, the building must be instrumented since it is located approximately 1.0 km from the West Valley Fault, which is the expected to have a M7.2 earthquake as mentioned in the MMEIRS 2004.

This building has earthquake recording instruments (ERI) installed at the basement no. 6, twentieth (20th) floor, and thirty-ninth (39th) floor.  The building is now being monitored 24/7.  The building's response due to recent earthquakes, since it was installed last year, 2019, has been in the monitoring of their command center.  All the data pertinent to structural vibration that can be used by their assigned structural engineer is available through the web portal, which includes a structural vibration report where its structural health index is supplied.  So anytime that the building official will ask the building / property manager for a report, it is ready in PDF format, in a matter of seconds.  This is powered by USHER ERI MAX, a product of research and development funded by the country's Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) with the academic institution, Mapua University.

For more details on the structural health monitoring of your buildings or other structures, you may reach me in this email: embylon@usher.ph

Sources:
https://www.themalayanplazahotel.com/
http://faultfinder.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/

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