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This is the first out of the three projects of RNFA with the University of the Philippines – Diliman (UP- Diliman). The building is located at Engineering Complex, U.P., Diliman, Quezon City. It has a floor area of 5,678 square meters. The project was completed on July 2014.

RNFA provided the construction management support for this project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UP Institute of Civil Engineering building is the third project of RNFA with UP-Diliman. The building is located at Engineering Complex, U.P., Diliman, Quezon City. It has a floor area of 9,247 square meters. The project was completed on November 2017.

RNFA provided the construction management support for this project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sumitomo group of companies of Japan embarked on an expansion of their production facilities in the Philippines in 1999. By late 2000, the new plant intended for manufacturing of forklift chassis and equipment steel frames was opened in Dasmarinas, Cavite. Locally, the company representing Sumito Yale is know as Suminac Philippines, Inc.

RNFA undertook the Architectural and Engineering design work in collaboration with Japanese architect, K. Nezu.

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The Silgan White Cap plant is one of the 88 plants worldwide that is owned by Silgan Holdings Inc. As a group, Silgan specializes in the manufacture of rigid packaging for shelf-stable food and other consumer goods products which include:

• steel and aluminum containers for human and pet food and general line products
• Metal, composite and plastic closures for food and beverage products
• custom designed plastic containers and closures for a variety of end markets

 

Guided by the Philips’ philosophy of “doing things better”, this semiconductor facility was designed and constructed to house the expansion and modernization of the production facilities of Philips Semiconductor Philippines, Inc. (PSPI), after its transfer from Las Piñas to an 8.8 hectare site in Cabuyao. It has a total floor area of about 30,900 square meters and includes a Production Building, a Canteen abutting the Production building, an Administration building, an Energy Building and Chemical Stores.

The Production Building has an 18 x 28 meter columnation on an 84 x 216 meter footprint. It is a steel-framed one-storey structure with mezzanines along each longitudinal side for utilities equipment. The two-storey Administration Building is made of reinforced concrete. Its lobby is dominated by a dome-shaped skylight with a sun baffle that produces colors resembling a Filipino Lantern.

Housed in the Energy Building are a 6-MVA power substation, two low RPM prime power diesel gensets, and the central chilled water plant. A 350-TR absorption chiller using recovered waste heat from the gensets supplies a portion of the cooling requirement of the facility.

RNFA was selected from among other firms to provide project management covering total engineering and architectural design as well as construction management services. The entire project was substantially completed in sixteen (16) months.

 

This project involved the construction of a dye house plant that would serve textile operations of Penn Philippines. The said company transferred its plant from FTI to LIIP to satisfy its water supply requirements.

The plant itself is composed of three buildings, namely: the production building, the utilities building and the waste water treatment plant. These covering a total area of 11,316 square meters.

The structure of the buildings include a combination of steel and concrete columns; the lower portions being composed of concrete, with steel constituting the upper parts. Furthermore, the roofing is made of sandwich panels which have the advantage of built-in insulation and easy installation.

RNFA produced the master plan of the entire project and provided detailed design, as well as, overall construction management of Phase 1. And the project was accomplished with 725,106 man-hours, yet without any accidents or time lost.

The project consist of a covered basketball court and a two-storey Recreation Building for the employees of ON SEMICONDUCTOR (formerly Motorola Philippines, Inc.) The Recreation Building has recreational facilities on the ground floor and an Analog Design Center on the second floor.

The covered basketball court has floor area of 821 square meters while the Recreation Building has 1,100 square meters. A two level vaulted roof on the space framed trusses serves to provide natural light and ventilation for the basketball court. On the other hand, the design of the curtain wall of the Recreation Building complements the existing building of this semiconductor facility.

Implementation of the project done in three phases. Phase 1 involved the relocation of an existing service gate and the construction of an open basketball court. Phase 2 involved the construction of the Recreational Buildings and Phase 3 the construction of the roof over the basketball court.

The project was substantially completed in a span of eleven months of non-continuous construction.

RNFA prepared the architectural and engineering design for the project and managed the construction.

 

 

 

The project is a new Assembly/Test Facility on a seven (7) hectare site in Carmona, Cavite. Construction includes site development and buildings with a gross floor area of 16,700 square meters. Designed to accommodate multi-product manufacturing, the new facility consists of a Production Area (7,200 square meters.), a Support Facilities Area (5,800 square meters) and an Office Block (3,700 square meters).

As the Principal Consultant, RNFA provided design and construction management services covering Civil/Structural/Architectural, Plumbing/Sanitary, Mechanical (HVAC/Fire Protection/Process Utilities) and Electrical (Power and Communication).

 

 

MNC’s Cebu Plant is located on a 2.5-hectare property in Mandaue City, Cebu. Less than half of the property was still vacant before this project was started. On the occupied part of the property are four (4) major structures; namely, Biscuits/Noodles Building, Wafer Building and two raw Material Warehouses at the rear.

 

In 2014, a year after a most powerful 315 kph typhoon Haiyan ( locally known as Yolanda) made landfall in Guiuan Eastern Samar in the Philippines, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) embarked on a program to build resilient facilities that provided for community protection during evacuation in times of disaster and subsequent recovery. These buildings are right-sized for the community population by selecting from two models, namely a 1,500 m² or a 750 m² built-up area. During normal times that do not require the building’s use as an evacuation center, its use is mainly as a community center for the locality

This project in Guiuan was IOM’s first Community Center & Evacuation Center designed together with RNFA. It is a 750 m² two-storey reinforced concrete structure with structural steel roof framing. The building was designed to withstand winds of 320 kph and earthquake resistance to meet seismic zone 4. Water storage was also incorporated in the facility as part of provisioning for recovery and rehabilitation. Many of the concepts adopted in the design of this facility were taken from the lessons learned in post-disaster studies of typhoon Haiyan.

On April 19, 2016, IOM’s completed Community Center & Evacuation Center was turned over to the Guiuan municipal government and to the community at large in a handover ceremony.

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