Raul Manlapig, the Managing Director of Arup (Philippines), a global firm providing engineering design, planning and project management services in all areas of the built environment, will be presenting a paper entitled "Zero Carbon Design" at Building Green 2009.

 

Raul is responsible for developing Arup’s business in the Philippines by promoting its full range of services to existing and prospective Clients. He provides leadership to a multi-discipline design group that is capable of providing specialist seismic skills, geotechnical engineering, building services design, site development/master planning and project management. His team has considerable experience in working with large design teams having contributed to the delivery of major projects in the Philippines and within the Asia Region in partnership with other Arup offices.  

He is a structural engineer by profession and has been involved in the structural design of high rise buildings for the past 14 years. He was the lead structural engineer for the Enterprise Center project and more recently he was involved in a project director capacity in the design of the Shang Grand Tower and the St Francis Towers, a twin tower 60 storey condominium. Both of these projects were designed using a performance based design technique. The St Francis Towers is unique in that it uses viscous dampers in resisting wind and seismic effects on the building, a first in the Philippine construction history. He has also been extensively involved in structural evaluation of existing buildings in regions of high seismicity and has developed strengthening retrofit for many structures to allow it to perform better during seismic events. His structural evaluation work has taken him to countries such as Japan, Turkey, USA, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.  

 

Arup, formed in 1946, the firm now has over 10,000 staff based in 80 offices in 31 countries and have completed projects in more than 160 countries. It has annual revenues of US$ 1.2Bn.