The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Headquarters facility is a new ten-story, steel framed office building designed to function as the new headquarters for the LAPD in the Downtown City Hall District. The building is highly designed from both an expression of a stylized and functional architectural form combined with the successful implementation of structural innovation through the use of a Buckling Restrained Braced Frame (BRBF) lateral force resisting system.

The BRBF system provides enhanced building performance in resisting large-magnitude seismic events with minimal damage. The LAPD Headquarters is one of the tallest applications of the lateral system in a high seismic region within the United States, as well as being one of the first new buildings approved for construction by the LA Department of Building and Safety in which BRBF’s are the primary lateral forces resisting components.

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