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SAVVICE Corporation has been a provider of end-to-end operations and maintenance services —Fleet Management, Facilities, Routine, Tollways and General Maintenance, Traffic Management including Roadside Assistance, Roadway Systems, etc. — for over 20 years.

The 20th Davao City Council approved the Davao City Earthquake Disaster Response Ordinance during the 40th Regular Session. The ordinance requires building owners to put up Earthquake Recording Instruments (ERIs) in their buildings to monitor earthquakes and help buildings become stronger. First District Councilor Edgar Ibuyan Jr., the proponent of the ordinance, said that this ordinance will help avoid further disaster or damage to existing buildings.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) will vacate temporarily its headquarters along Roxas Boulevard in Pasay next year to pave the way for the retrofitting of its 50-year old building. The building, considered as one of the country’s national cultural properties, has been declared unsafe as it no longer conforms to the safety standards of

In the face of climate related hazards face in the country, the country's leading telecommunications firm Globe has committed to strive to build a resilient network infrastructure that can withstand the impact of stronger and more frequent weather disturbances and other natural disasters. This is

The foundation of the Mall of Asia Complex was built to be safe and secure because SM Prime Holdings, Inc., one of Southeast Asia’s largest integrated property developers incorporates disaster resiliency measures in every project, with the MOA Complex as one of its biggest investments.

(File photo) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has signed an executive order (EO) updating and supplementing the rules on non-mobile advertising signs and billboards. Executive Order No. 165, signed by Duterte on March 21, covers all non-mobile advertising signs and billboards, and their support structures, erected and installed, modified, retrofitted, rehabilitated or otherwise altered, and exhibited. In signing the EO, Duterte recognized that unregulated advertising signs and billboards p...

President Duterte has signed an executive order regulating out-of-home advertising signs and billboards, citing the environmental impact of such structures.

(File photo) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has signed an executive order (EO) updating and supplementing the rules on non-mobile advertising signs and billboards. Executive Order No. 165, signed by Duterte on March 21, covers all non-mobile advertising signs and billboards, and their support structures, erected and installed, modified, retrofitted, rehabilitated or otherwise altered, and exhibited. In signing the EO, Duterte recognized that unregulated advertising signs and billboards p...

The production of engineered bamboo as substitute for good lumber to help fight deforestation and climate change, among others, was envisioned by Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu. “Bamboo reduces the need for timber resources, and helps greatly in carbon sequestration, in biodiversity conservation and in low-cost rehabilitation of degraded lands,”…

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)- National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) has conferred awards to Filipino scientists for their valuable and outstanding science and technology (S&T) technology contributions. (DOST- NAST PHL Facebook) The NSTW Outstanding R&D Awa