Technical Committee on Performance-based Design and Utilization of Precast Concrete Products

Precast concrete products (hereinafter “PCa Products”) are expected to greatly contribute to the advent of a recycling-oriented society through such means as higher qualitative stability, shorter time for construction works and promotion of the use of various recycled materials. In order to acquire technical data which contribute to the method for performance-based design of PCa Products as well as of structures derived from them based on the result of JCI-TC071A’s 2-year surveys and research in FY2007 and FY2008, the committee was divided into two working groups; Product Design WG and Structure Evaluation WG, and conducted survey/research activities to sort out and examine problems specific to PCa Products. This paper summarizes its major activities.