Need for a Master Plan for Metro Manila
Congressman Jose Atienza pushes for a Master Plan for the National Capital Region.
We would like to thank Rep. Atienza for pointing this out. On the other hand, there is also a need for a master plan for managing any kind of disaster that will hit Metro Manila. From our honest assessment, there is really none.
Early this year, my uncle Nick Fernandez and myself had an audience with Chairman Francis Tolentino of the Metro Manila Development Authority.
We would like to thank Rep. Atienza for pointing this out. On the other hand, there is also a need for a master plan for managing any kind of disaster that will hit Metro Manila. From our honest assessment, there is really none.
Early this year, my uncle Nick Fernandez and myself had an audience with Chairman Francis Tolentino of the Metro Manila Development Authority.
We were told by Chairman Tolentino that he and an Australian group now had a disaster map of Metro Manila that cost a few million pesos. It shows the many hazards and risks that Metro Manilans are exposed to. Chairman Tolentino stressed that he and his Australian counterparts are ready to post the disaster map over the internet. Most politely it was told to the Honorable Chairman that the need is really for a truly interactive map that will benefit the people of Metro Manila when it comes to the issue of forewarning during disaster. Such a map will certainly require a really big budget – as I have found out during the entire advocacy for safety and disaster prepared since 1990.
In the World Bank Study of 1996/7 up to 1999 alone, more than United States Dollars Two Millions (USD2,000,000) was spent on mapping only the earthquake fault emanating from the Marikina West and East Valley area. How much would have been spent at today’s costs (nearly twenty years later), if all the environmental hazards are figured into the final geohazard map for Metro Manila?
US Dollars Twenty Millions (USD20,000,000) will not nearly be enough. Read More from here
How can you help your shopping centers and stores in your community?
Store Security Plan and Procedure
· The first priority of the store and the authorities in the community should be the prevention of egress for any kind of robbery in band groups or individual criminal that will cause potential losses and damage to the store or its store owners. From the store proper, to any kind of parking area, all points of egress for the perpetrators must be stopped.
· The store can install a system of effective security road blocks to deter perpetrators from exiting the premises during escape after a criminal act.
· Alongside locking down the perpetrators of a robbery or similar group, is immediate neutralization anddemobilization, thereby preventing the same perpetrators from causing further harm and damage to life and property within the mall premises.
· A similarly important security procedure is to place the entire the store or similar facility in NCRPO under heightened alert, considerably increase target hardening for an indefinite extended period once that facility receives a bomb threat. All measures may be taken to prevent, coopt and interdict any criminal act that will follow. After about more than one (1) month, the security may be eased however for practical purposes, random alert and heightened security may be called by the security manager.
· The security guards that fled the scene of the robbery should be interviewed thoroughly by the SPD and be given authorized leave with pay by the store-PSAs employing them.
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Web photos of MARTILYO GANG robbery in Metro Manila
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The Fleurdelis Green Heights Project – Mindanao – FGH
FGH is going to the use the technology of green and blue roofing, among many other green engineering and design concepts. This is showcased in the world renown township design of an architectural firm for the City of Gwanggyo, South Korea shown in the images below:
Green construction technology is going to break barriers today and in the future. The rapid depletion of green resources around the world will encourage governments and the private sector to push ahead in that direction.