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COMPANY REPORT:

A.Company Name:

UNION GALVASTEEL CORPORATION (CALAMBA LAGUNA)

B.Brief Profile Of The Company:

UNION GALVASTEEL CORPORATION (UGC) started as the Union Steel Plant Division o

BACNOTAN CEMENT INDUSTRIES, INC. (Bacnotan), a pioneer in the Philippine Cement Industry

and commenced commercial operations in 1963 with a galvanizing plant in Poro, San Fernando, La

Union for the manufacture of Galvanized Iron (GI) sheets. It subsequently expanded operations

with galvanizing plants in Ilang, Davao City in 1968 and in Calamba, Laguna in 1990. The division

was spun off in 1993 as a separate business unit and incorporated as BACNOTAN STEEL

CORPORATION. The company in 1995 established a modern Continuous Galvanizing Line and a

Color Coating Line for the manufacture of prepainted galvanized steel coils in Calamba, Laguna.

In June 2000, the company was renamed U N I O N G A L V A S T E E L C O R P O R A T I O N, aname that identifies its core business and brings Union Galvasteel as a leading brand of galvanized

and prepainted steel roofing products in the market

Today, UNION GALVASTEEL CORPORATION is the market leader in the manufacture and

distribution of prepainted galvanized roofing and other galvanized steel products such as stee

decking, building systemscomponents and insulated panels for commercial, industrial, and

residential applications. The company has the largest and most diversified distribution network in

the industry, with rollforming plants, warehouses and sales offices in strategic locations throughout

the country

C.Nature Of The Company:

The company is owned by PHINMA CORPORATION, a highly diversified holding company with

interests in enterprises involved in housing, steel roofing products, energy, education, and business

process outsourcing

PHINMA was founded in 1956 by a group of prominent businessmen and industrialists led by Amb

Ramon V. del Rosario, Sr., Don Filemon C. Rodriguez, and Mr. Ernesto O. Escaler.

D.Company Observation:

I have observed that they only have just enough men in the factory. Theyre organized and there

factory was clean and neat.Ive seen three major facilities of the factory which is Color coating

line, polyurethane line and roll forming line.

LESSON LEARNED:


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s not that easy to produce a certain product just like the Union Galvasteel Corporation is

doing. There are certain standards to follow and comply with, and in this process some

personnel is needed to do this job. Just like being a site engineer or in construction.

learned that making flat sheets, flat corrugated sheets have different process until it will satisfy

the customers needs like the color of the flat sheets, design, durability.

Company Name:

METROPOLITAN MANILA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (MMDA)

(GUADALUPE, MAKATI)

Brief Profile Of The Company:

A constitutional convention regarding the consolidation of different localities into a single

metropolitan area was held in 1972. As a result of the convention, a proposal was submitted to the

Office of the President regarding the matter. Another proposal highlighted the need for an entity

that will supervise the proposed metropolitan area. This new agency was conceived to hold the

different responsibilities of coordinating, planning, managing and implementing projects that wil

deliver services to the area, and will coordinate ordinances and laws for legislation and law

enforcement. A referendum concerning the matter was conducted on 27 February 1975. The

decision of consolidating a greater metropolitan area and of hatching the agency that will govern

over it was left to the public. The mandate led to the establishment of an area known as MetroManila, and the creation of the Metro Manila Commission (MMC) under Presidential Decree No

824. MMC was vested with all legislative and regulatory functions concerning the new Metro Manila

area. Basically, all decisions were made by five commissioners appointed by the President. However

during theMarcosAdministration, weather surveys pointed towards the abolition of the MMC due

to very low public satisfaction ratings. The common notion involved MMC's role as a facet used for

the administration's political advancement. In 1988, however, public opinion took a positive turn

Majority of Metro Manila residents called for a retention of the MMC, favoring arguments of reform

rather than of abolition. Republic Act No. 7924 granted the newly-formed Metropolitan Manila

Development Authority (MMDA) 1 billion pesos for its initial operation. At present, the MMDA aims

to strengthen its institutional capacity by improving its employed staff and increasing its available

funding.

Nature Of The Company:

The MMDA shall set the policies concerning traffic in Metropolitan Manila, and coordinate and

regulate the implementation of all programs and projects concerning traffic management specifically

pertaining to enforcement, engineering and education. Upon request, it shall be extended assistance

and cooperation, including but not limited to, assignment of personnel, by all other government

agencies and offices concerned.
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Company Observation:

The MMDA has an advance technology which they use to asses and control vehicular traffic in

Manila.

LESSONS LEARNED:

The lesson Ive learned is that MMDA continues to monitor and control traffic every day inManila. They are the ones controlling the traffic lights so massive compression of cars would be

reduced. They focus more of their time monitoring traffic rather than monitoring accidents or

crimes. They can also assist cars that have defects in the highway.

Company Name:

STEEL ASIA ( MEYCAUYAN, BULACAN)


Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation manufactures and supplies reinforcing steel bars for

infrastructure, high-rise, commercial mall, school and office, factory, residential, tourism

industrial, and power plant construction projects. It also offers cutting and bending, rebar

threading, and mechanical coupler supply services. The company was founded in 1995 and is based

in Taguig City, the Philippines. Steel Asia Manufacturing Corporation operates as a subsidiary of

NatSteel Holdings Pte. Ltd.


SteelAsia is a company borne out of a partnership that started in 1965.Filipino businessmen

Benito Yao and Go Kim Pah (founder of Equitable Bank), joined forces to put up a rolling mill called

Island Metal. The small rebar facility would eventually bloom into one the worlds largest and most

modern rebar manufacturing companies today.In the late 1980s, under the leadership of successor

Benjamin Yao, the company would embark on an expansion and modernization of its

manufacturing capability, as a platform for helping the Philippine steel industry to become part of

the solution. Up until the mid-1990s, the highly fragmented Philippine steel industry was

composed of over 50 small steel bar rolling mills of circa 19th

century and early 20th

centurytechnology. The solution was scale and modernization.In 1994, a project to establish the

Philippinesfirst state-of-the-art steel bar rolling mill was underway. Driving the endeavor, the

SteelAsia Manufacturing Corporation had envisioned a facility that would truly be a national asset

world class steel products and services would lower the cost of construction, and help spur

economic growth. When the mill- a showcase of European technology, commissioned in 1996, it

was a statement to the ASEAN steel community, that the Philippines hadfinallyjoined the ranks in

modern industrialization.SteelAsia today plays a key role in national development. Around one out

every two steel bars installed in construction are manufactured by SteelAsia. More than 80% of the

steel bar requirements for land, air, sea, power and communications infrastructure are supplied by


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SteelAsia. It is the preferred supplier of the largest contractors and property developers in the

Philippines. It is has vertically integrated both upstream and downstream, having the largest and

most modern steel billet making facility and the largest rebar fabrication plant in the country.

Already with 6 plants operating across the archipelago, it is adding two more- among the worlds

largest and most modern steel bar mills, to meet the needs of todays unprecedented economic

growth.


The process of producing steel is not that easy. It runs in a long process. It needs personnel to

maintain the flow of the production. Small malfunctions of any of the machine will result into delay

of the production.

LESSONS LEARNED:

The lesson that I learned from Steel Asia was if the steel that you use in a building is sub-

standards many lives will be in danger and that Steel Asia was to insure a good quality products

The steel they are making have special size up to 50 mm. Ive learned that they test their steel by

chemical, mechanical and physical properties and when one of these test fail they remold the steeand make another proportioning ratio to attain the desired strength needed.

Company Name:

SUBIC BAY METROPOLITAN AUTHORITY (SUBIC BAY FREEPORT ZONE)


The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority is governmental agency of the Philippine

government.Sometimes abbreviated as SBMA, the agency has played a significant part in the

development of theSubic Bay Freeportand theSpecial Economic Zoneinto a self-sustainable area

that promotes the industrial, commercial, investment, and financial areas of trade in the zone as

well as in the country of thePhilippinesitself.


The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is the operating and implementing arm of the

Government of the Philippines for the development of the 262 square mile (670 square kilometer)

area of Subic Bay Freeport (SBF) into a self-sustaining tourism, industrial, commercial, financial

and investment center to generate employment opportunities. This area was the former US Naval

facility in Subic Bay.

On March 13, 1992, the Philippine Congress passed Republic Act 7227, known as the Bases

Conversion and Development Act of 1992, in anticipation of the pullout of the US military bases in

the country. Section 13 of RA 7227 created the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) to develop
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and manage the Freeport which provides tax and duty-free privileges and incentives to business

locators in the special economic zone.

Richard Gordon, then the mayor of the City of Olongapo, became the first SBMA chairman.

Mayor Gordon with 8,000 volunteers took over the facility to preserve and protect US$8 billion

worth of property and facilities when the last U.S. Navy helicopter carrier USS Belleau Wood sailed

out of Subic Bay on November 24, 1992 and started the conversion of the military base into a free

port like Hong Kong and Singapore.On its fourth anniversary on November 24, 1996, Subic Bay hosted the leaders of 18 economies

during the Fourth Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Summit. By that time, this

emerging investment haven had already successfully attracted companies like Federal Express

Enron, Coastal Petroleum now El Paso Corporation, Taiwan computer giant Acer and France

telecoms company Thomson SA to establish operations in the Freeport.

Richard Gordon was SBMA chairman and administrator and was succeeded by Bataan

Representative and Harvard Business School graduate Felicito C. Payumo in 1998.

In August 2004, Executive Order No. 340 was issued by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

This Executive order reorganized the SBMA Board of Directors and segregated the powers, functionsand duties of the chairman and those of the SBMA administrator. Ayala Land founding president

Francisco H. Licuanan was appointed SBMA Chairman and former Development Bank of the

Philippines (DPB) chairman Alfredo C. Antonio was appointed SBMA Administrator in line with this

Executive Order.

In 2006, Kings Point's US Merchant Marine Academy alumnus Commodore Feliciano G. Salonga

was appointed Chairman/Head of Agency, and Wharton graduate Armand C. Arreza was appointed

SBMA Administrator and Chief Executive Officer.

Succeeding Salonga and Arreza at the end of their six-year term was seasoned business executive

and entrepreneur Roberto V. Garcia who was appointed by President Benigno S. Aquino III as SBMA

Chairman and Administrator in 2011.


I observed that their facilities and runway was maintained very well and the airport was only

used for private planes.

LESSONS LEARNED:

I learned that the pavement of the runway is a different class of asphalt they use on the

highways it is maintained by chemical and civil engineers.

Subic Bay International Airport boasts of modern facilities, which include the following:

10,000-square metrepassengerterminal

2 stearnjetways

Closed-circuit television(CCTV)
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9000 foot runway

Military Ramp (Southwest Ramp) being used by the US Armed forces as a part of the

Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United

States.

Company Name:

FREYSSINET (CALUMPIT,BULACAN)


Frey-Fil Corporationwas established in 1974 as a post-tensioning contractor having a


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principal objective of developing the use of prestressing in traditional reinforced concrete structures

For more than a quarter of a century, Frey-Fil Corporation has expanded its application o

prestressing to both cast-in place and precast concrete structures and has also diversified into the

area of architectural precast concrete. At present, Frey-Fil Corporation has acquired competence

and expertise in the field of precast prestressed concrete and is currently operating business offices

and plant facilities nationwide to better serve the needs of the ever-growing construction industry.


1972 - Established as a division of Constress Philippines engaged in Post tensioning work

1974 - Incorporation of Freyssinet Post tensioning System Philippines, Inc. (FPSPI). Due to the

increasing demands in Post tensioning work.

1985 - FPSPI changed its name to Freyssinet Philippines, Inc. (FPI) as the company expanded from

a mere Post tensioning Company to become a Precast/Prestressed Concrete Company and later

ventured in the fabrication of precast Architectural Components

2002 - Another change in name was made when the Board decided to use the name FreyssinetFilipinas Corporation (FFC), also the acronym of its President Felipe F. Cruz

2002 - In September 2002, FFC has been assessed and certified in meeting the requirements of ISO

9001:2000.

2014 - In September 2014, FFC has been assessed and certified in meeting the requirements of ISO

9001:2008.


They are very strict in safety measures. The set up of undergoing the production is not that

easy. Certain standards had to be followed to come up with the desired output. Construction o

post-tensioned slabs on grade is very similar to using reinforcing steel, except for the tensioning

step. Cables are arranged as indicated by the engineer and chaired to run through the center of the

slab.

LESSONS LEARNED:

Most of the work being done here is a civil engineering jobs. Just like for example material

testing (Steel Bar, Sand, Gravel, etc. I have learned on how they make prestressed beams which

engineers use for bridges. They used forms to mold the beams and put cable on them to make it

strong in tensional forces. I also learned that cables are more economical to use.


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Company Name:

NATURES SPRING (GUIGUINTO, BULACAN)


PHILIPPINE SPRING WATER RESOURCES, INC. (PSWRI), a 100% Filipino owned and managed

company. It is a manufacturer and distributor of NATURES SPRING bottled drinking waterproducts for both local and international markets.


The production and distribution of purified, safe and affordable drinking water was conceived

by its President and Chief Executive Officer in 1991 when the need was so magnified after super

typhoon Ruping (the Philippine name for internationally christened typhoon Mike) hit Cebu

Philippines sometime in November, 1990. The destruction it had caused brought unimaginable

havoc and paralyzed the whole island. There was no electrical power which also caused the

disruption of the water distribution. The populace were only relying on unsafe deep well watersources. This resulted on an outbreak of water bound diseases like El Tor, Cholera, Diarrhea and

Hepatitis A.

The need for a safe drinking water was an immediate concern. The demand for safe bottled

drinking water products was emphasized. Unfortunately, these where not readily available in the

market. There was only a handful local brands and few expensive foreign bottled water. Stocks were

very few and in some cases no supply at all

This demand, during that time of emergency caused by a natural calamity and the development of

kidney stones on its now President and CEO, primarily due to the local water sources high

mineral content (particularly lime) was instrumental in realizing the need to come up withsolutions.

A comprehensive research and hands on training was then undertaken in the United States about

the industry, the product, and the technical aspects of the manufacturing and production of

purified bottled water.

Then an extensive market research, product conceptualization and development was

commissioned back home. With the aid of foreign expert consultants the first plant and production

facility was put up in what became its main plant and office facilities located at A.C. Cortes

Avenue, Cambaro, Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines.

Now a leading purified bottled drinking water and enjoying a increasing market share PHILIPPINE

SPRINGWATER RESOURCES, INC. (PSWRI) has since addressed the increased product volume

requirements by building three other production facilities. Two for Luzon areaone in Guiguinto

Bulacan and another in Calamba, Laguna. And also in Cagayan de Oro City for the Mindanao

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I observed that natures spring advocate is to help people drink clean water because many are

just drinking water into a deep well and springs that are not safe.

LESSONS LEARNED:

The lesson I learned was to make the water clean and safe to drink for the next generation to

come.

Company Name:

NORTHERN CEMENT CORPORATION:


Northern Cement Corporationis situated at the extreme southwestern flanks of Cordillera

mountain range. The area is characterized by low flat lying alluvial plains and eventually risestowards the north and east exhibiting a gently rolling to moderately rugged terrain.

Rolling hills occupy mostly the western and southern portion of the company which is at the

foothills of the Cordillera and sliced in-between by the Aloragat River. High relief starts from the

cement plant abruptly rising to the north and east reaching an elevation of about six hundred (600)

meters above sea level. On top of the limestone deposits forms a plateau-like terrain with an average

altitude of three hundred (300) meters.

The companys cement plant complex is twenty five (25) kilometers away from Urdaneta City and

could be reached by any motor vehicle following the Manila-Laoag national road up to Barangay

Paldit junction in Sison, Pangasinan. A six (6) kilometers stretch due east reaches the cement plant

complex.


Northern Cement Corporation was incorporated on February 10, 1967, On the same year, Mr

EduardoDandingCojuangco, Jr., showed the first ray of hope and blessings to the people of

barrio Labayug, Sison, Pangasinan by transforming this idle forested land into an industrialized

community.

Under his leadership and guidance, the Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Company of Manila (AG&P) wascommissioned to construct what was to become the largest and the most modern cement plant in

the country during that time. A team of engineers arrived in Sison, Pangasinan and taught the

barrio folks whose only skills is to till the soil, the precious knowledge of cement manufacturing

that eventually gave them livelihood without leaving their home town.

The year 1969 saw the rise of Northern Cement Corporation as the Countrys producer of quality

cement. On the 6th of December 1969, the first smoke was emitted from its chimney stack

signifying the firing of the Rotary Kiln. Twenty-one days later, the plant was blessed and

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The first bag of cement was produced on January 28, 1970 and from then on, the domestic market

have known Northern Cement as a household name in concrete construction.

The company also engaged in exporting its products from 1970 to the 80s satisfying customers in

India, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, China and other countries in the region. An

undeniable proof that quality product defies distance.

The company added to its mantle the certification onISO 9002:1994

on September 2, 1999 and on

October 25, 2002, the ISO 9001:2000, in its commitment towards consistent product quality. On

January 19, 2006, Northern Cement Corporation focused on strengthening further its existing

Quality Management System by including ISO 14001:2004and OHSAS 18001:1999for

environmental protection and occupational safety & health, respectively.


I observed that NCC was one of the biggest distributors of cement in the Philippines and their

facilities was organized, they are the first manufacturer of cement that owned by a Filipino. I have

seen the facilities of making cement from the quary- proportioning,bending or grinding - to the

preheater tower and others

LESSONS LEARNED:

As a civil engineer, I can apply my profession in the field of material testing. Just like for

example in quality testing of the cements produced.


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