THE ACADEME’S RESPONSE TO SAFE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS INFRASTRACTURE DEVELOPMENT

The School of Graduate Studies
and the
School of Earth and Materials Science and Engineering
Mapúa Tech
Muralla St., Intramuros
Manila, Philippines

ABSTRACT

Baguio Earthquake 1990, Mt. Pinatubo Eruption 1991, lahars 1991-present, Allah Valley floods 1995, Cherry Hills 1999, and many more. Prior to these events, the professions of Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering were hardly given importance in the Philippines.

After the Cherry Hills incident, the government finally implemented DAO 2000-28, a DENR-Administrative Order requiring all development and infrastructure project proponents to conduct an Engineering Geological and Geohazard Assessment (EGGA) as an additional ECC requirement.

The academe’s response to this growing concern of undertaking safe and environmentally conscious infrastructure development projects was initiated by the School of Graduate Studies of the Mapúa Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the School of Earth and Materials Science and Engineering, by offering a degree course in Master of Science in Engineering Geology / Geotechnical Engineering, as early as school year 1999 - 2000.

The graduate program aims to train a broad-based engineering geologist / geotechnical engineer capable of practicing the profession at the international level.