In April 1991, a series of industry seismic workshops were conducted by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PC/). The primary objective of these workshops was to seek industry input into the Concept Development and Connection Classification Projects of PRESSS (Precast Seismic Structural Systems) Phase 1. The participants in these workshops consisted of precast concrete producers, design engineers and contractors. Several conceptual designs were presented by the PRESSS researchers and critiqued by the workshop participants. This paper describes the results of the workshops as well as the review by the PRESSS Applications Advisory Committee, which recommends concepts worthy of future development by the PRESSS research teams.
