Philippines

At GHD Philippines, our clients benefit from the high professional skills of our staff and our ability to draw on GHD’s international resources for various specialist skills and services required to support any development. Established in 1998, GHD Philippines has a thriving Philippine business operation in addition to providing other GHD offices technical support for various international projects.

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At the heart of our business in the Philippines is a team of more than 180 forward thinking engineers, architects, geologists, drafters, planners, environmental scientists, and management consultants working together to deliver innovative solutions to clients.

The GHD Philippines office grew dramatically in 1999 with the awarding of a three-year agreement to support the expansion of a water service concessionaire that provides water to seven million customers in the greater Metro Manila area.

We have since expanded our business to include urban development and planning services to reputable land development firms and to the first ethanol plant in the Philippines.

Our growing environmental group has provided environmental and engineering services to local and international companies and key players in the energy and mining sectors.

GHD Philippines also houses the International Development Assistance group, which facilitates and coordinates GHD’s activities with the Asian Development Bank, AusAID, the World Bank and other funding agencies.

Our office has developed a reputation within GHD’s international network for delivering high quality work under tight deadlines.

We encourage a regular exchange of staff between the Philippines and other offices in Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East to allow our people to interact in the international arena and hone their skills to international industry standards.

GHD Philippines can provide the following services:

Project Management to include Construction Support and Contract Administration
Architectural and Engineering Design, to include mechanical, electrical, hydraulics and fire protection
Landscaping
Urban Development
Environmental Management

For further information, please contact the following:

Bing Ruso
T: 63 2 479 5600 | F: 63 2 479 5601 | E: Email GHD in the Philippines

Location address
2nd Floor, 111 Paseo de Roxas
Legaspi Village, 1229 Makati City
Metro Manila
Philippines

New ADB Technical Assistance Project in Palau

Our International Development Assistance (IDA) Support Group in Manila has secured a technical assistance project with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the preparation of the Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Babeldaob, Palau.

Palau is a small idyllic Pacific Island nation with a population of around 20,000, with most habitants living on two of its many islands. The aim of the Technical Assistance is to define secure, reliable, and affordable water supplies to communities on Babeldaob and Koror islands. The envisaged outcome will be a plan for the sustainable development of the national water supply system and improved reliability and security of the water supply to Koror. A water supply master plan and feasibility studies associated with proposed sub-projects, including preliminary designs, will also be prepared. The feasibility studies will provide the basis for a future infrastructure investment project.

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Rapu-Rapu Polymetallic Mine

The Rapu-Rapu Polymetallic Project is estimated to have a potential investment of US$ 42 million and potential gross sales of US$ 41 million per year. GHD undertook a range of project tasks for the developer (Rapu-Rapu Processing Inc) and the contractor (Leighton Contractors, Philippines, Inc.)

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Masbate Gold Project – Philippines Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) and associated infrastructure

GHD was appointed by CGA Mining Limited to carry out the detailed design of the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) and associated infrastructure for the Masbate Gold Project – Philippines.

The Masbate Gold Project comprises four planned open pits, located on a mine site previously developed and operated by Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation. It is located approximately 7 km south of the town of Aroroy on the northern coast of the island of Masbate (approximately 350 km south of Manila), a province of the Philippines in the Bicol Region.

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Anvaya Cove

GHD was commissioned by one of the Philippines largest property developers, Ayala Land, Inc. to prepare an infrastructure master plan, detailed designs, and environmental studies for the proposed first class resort facility development of a 400-hectare property in Morong, Bataan, adjacent to the former US Subic Naval Base.

The proposed development involved a range of themed residential communities, scenic golf course and country club, beach resort with inland freshwater lagoon features, destination spa, marina facility for yachts and other recreational vessels, and a resort hotel. All these will be set in the natural beach and mountain setting of the site.

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Fraser Watt

Fraser Watt is an environmental chemist with over 25 years' experience in the scientific and environmental consulting industries in Australia and Europe. He has significant experience in environmental due diligence, contaminated sites investigation and rehabilitation, and industrial site appraisal and assessment. He has overall management responsibility for GHD’s Vietnam offices, both in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, as well as the company's operations in the Philippines and India. Fraser brings his international leadership experience to contribute to our Vietnam Operating Centre’s capabilities to a sustainable development of GHD in Vietnam and globally.

Position: Operating Centre Manager, Philippines
Tel: 63 2 479 5600

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George Pyke

George Pyke has over 30 years experience in Australia, the Middle East, Indonesia, Malaysia and Fiji, in fields of State and Local Government Engineering Works, Public Health Engineering and Asset Management. He is also experienced as a Project Manager for multidisciplinary groups engaged on infrastructure and transportation developments.

George has been with GHD for 18 years and is an accomplished Project Manager for major infrastructure projects such as the World Islands Project in Dubai and Al Raha Gardens in Abu Dhabi, coupled with his extensive planning and design management experience in all facets of road, transport, water, wastewater, stormwater, public utility and civil infrastructure.

Position: Operations Manager, Manila
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Manny Ancheta

Manny brings extensive practical and management experience through more than 25 years’ of work on mine design, buildings and structures, mine haulage roads, subdivisions, geology, surveying, geotechnical and design management projects. He is proficient in the use of Primavera, MS Project and familiar in operating Surpac Mining software applied to database management, geologic block modeling, surveying, mine planning and design and reporting. Manny has significant work experience in project management and contract administration in the Philippines, Australia, Laos and more than 14 years' in the Sultanate of Oman and United Arab Emirates.

Position: Business Group Manager, Infrastructure & Mining, Manila
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Mario Dimagiba

Mario has significant experience in managing multidiscipline teams involved in project and contract management and design consultancies. He has extensive knowledge in practically every aspect of the project development from planning, design and construction management; including contract administration and project documentation. He also has a strong technical background in projects relating to institutional buildings; urban and land development (residential subdivisions, industrial parks, resort developments, garden villages, town homes development, memorial parks); commercial and residential building infrastructure; office relocation and fit out; and municipal/ city water supply systems.

Position: Business Group Manager, Building Services and Project Management

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David Hill

David Hill has broad experience in the planning and analysis of water resources and transportation infrastructure development projects. This experience includes project scoping, development of alternatives, contingency planning, economic and financial analysis, risk analysis including Monte Carlo simulation, and directing technical assistance efforts. Specific types of infrastructure covered include: flood control structures, locks and dams, navigation channels, ports, airports, rural farm-to-market roads, small scale type I & II water supply systems, and communal irrigation schemes.

Position: Service Group Manager, International Development Assistance

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Maximo F Cacapit

Max is an experienced Architect and a Landscape Architect with over 35 years experience. His main focus has been in design consulting and management, both locally and internationally. Max has been responsible for building and leading several successful design offices for international consulting firms in the Philippines. These teams are guided by his principle of developing and sustaining mutually beneficial relationships with clients by creating dynamic, value-adding solutions to their design projects.
He has also spent seven years directly managing both professional and skilled staff numbering more than 250 for the Philippine Economic Zone Authority.

Position: Group Manager, Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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