Our Game-Changing Approach

A Company of Firsts

As a “Company of Firsts”, PreFast^® has consistently challenged “what’s possible” in advancing the development, prefabrication and installation of permanent prefabricated school buildings; raising expectations and creating new opportunities for our Customers in the process.  From our continuing commitment that every Plantcrafted Building^® throughout our entire Product line is DSA PC PreApproved, to the wide range of Milestone Accomplishments and Innovative Features that we have brought to the market, being “First” is at the core of PreFast’s DNA

Here are some of the Milestone Accomplishments and Innovative Features that have established PreFast as a Company of Firsts:

• First California Division of the State Architect (DSA) PreChecked (“PC Pre-Approved”) Type 2 (concrete and steel) Two-Story permanent prefabricated school buildings (2005),
• First Two Story prefabricated school buildings to incorporate a DSA PC Pre-Approved integrated foundation and slab on grade for multiple allowable soil pressures (2005),
• First to offer exclusively California Proposition 1D High Performance Incentive Grant (“HPIG”) eligible prefabricated school buildings throughout its entire product line (2007),)
• First California Division of the State Architect (DSA) PC Pre-Approved, Type 2 (concrete and steel) pedestrian bridges (2007),
• First to qualify a Project for California Proposition 1D HPIG certification and supplemental funding in the California, (2008),
• First prefabricated school buildings to qualify a Project for Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) “CHPS Designed” certification (2008),
• First prefabricated school buildings to qualify a Project for California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Savings by Design certification and supplemental funding grant (2010),
• First prefabricated school buildings to be DSA PC Pre-Approved for installation in any seismic force zone under the 2010 California Building Code (2011),
• First prefabricated school buildings to incorporate a DSA PC Pre-Approved automatic fire sprinkler system (2011),
• First DSA PC Pre-Approved Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (“STEAM”) Buildings (2011),
• First Two Story prefabricated school buildings to be separately DSA PC Pre-Approved for installation in both Standard Seismic (Ss 1.82) and High Seismic (Ss 2.75) force zones under the 2013 California Building Code (2014),
• First California Division of the State Architect (DSA) PC Pre-Approved Type 2 (concrete and steel) permanent prefabricated gymnasium and gymnasium support buildings (2015),
• First prefabricated buildings available in multiple DSA PC PreApproved architectural Building Styles (2015)
• First STEAM Buildings DSA PC Pre-Approved for installation in High Seismic (Ss 2.20) force zones under the 2016 California Building Code (2019),
• First prefabricated buildings to incorporate a DSA PC PreApproved, non-proprietary life safety system (2019)
• First Two Story DSA PC Pre-Approved prefabricated school buildings incorporating both gurney-sized elevators and guiderails (2019)
• First full range of Type 2 (concrete and steel) permanent prefabricated gymnasiums and gymnasium support buildings DSA PC Pre-Approved for installation in High Seismic (Ss 2.75) force zones under the 2016 California Building Code (2019),
• First Two Story prefabricated school buildings to be separately DSA PC Pre-Approved for installation in both Standard Seismic (Ss 1.50) and High Seismic (Ss 3.00) force zones under the 2019 California Building Code (2020, pending),
• First Two Story prefabricated STEAM buildings to be separately DSA PC Pre-Approved for installation in both Standard Seismic (Ss 1.50) and High Seismic (Ss 3.00) force zones under the 2019 California Building Code (2020, pending),