Applications

What Is SidePlate?

SidePlate technologies are fully developed for both new and retrofit construction. Their unique, trademark geometry, simple design configurations, increased construction stiffness and proven construction methods are ideally suited to satisfy a wide variety and technically diverse set of design environments and construction applications.

Construction Applications

Institutional
HEALTHCARE
  • Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities, Senior Assisted Living, Medical Office Buildings
GOVERNMENT
  • County/Federal Buildings, Hospitals, Courthouses, Embassies, Strategic Military Installations, Airport Air Traffic Control Towers, Radar Towers & TRACON Buildings, Air Cargo Facilities
EDUCATION
  • Universities and Community Colleges, Administrative Offices, Auditoriums, Stadiums, Laboratory Buildings
Blast-Resistant Structures
STRATEGICALLY SENSITIVE GOVERNMENT FACILITIES
  • Mitigation of progressive floor collapse and other global bomb blast effects originating from terrorist or accidental bomb blasts
  • Saves lives, prevents injuries and protects facilities
  • Public owners include GSA, FAA, Department of Defense, Army Corp of Engineers, U.S. Navy and others
  • Includes pre-engineered steel frame structures used to temporarily house personnel and/or warehouse government inventory.
HIGH-PROFILE PRIVATE BUSINESS OWNERS
  • High-Profile Private Business Owners
Commercial and Industrial
HIGH-RISE, MID-RISE AND LOW-RISE OFFICE, RETAIL AND MIXED-USE BUILDINGS
LARGE CONCRETE TILT-UP BUILDINGS
  • For use in tall, one-story interior moment frames in large footprint warehouses
  • Eliminates interior braces that would otherwise limit the owner's functional use of the building
PRE-ENGINEERED STEEL FRAME STRUCTURES
  • Includes those with varying-depth column and beam sections
PETROCHEMICAL STRUCTURES
  • Such as global pipe rack structures
POWER GENERATION STRUCTURES
  • Includes turbine buildings and electrical dead-end bus structures
Residential
  • Refer to the complete line of over 300 pre-engineered and pre-fabricated standard Special Moment Frames (SMF) available through Hardy Frames, Inc., known as the Hardy Frame® Moment Frame. For more information, please visit their website at www.hardyframe.com, or call 1-800-754-3030.