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UP group bags Habitat prize

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A team of Philippine instructors and civil engineers from the academic community recently won the ‘Habitat for Humanity Challenge: Increasing resilience to earthquakes and typhoons for homes with no foundations’ in the Philippines. 

UP group bags Habitat prize

The University of the Philippines-Diliman’s Construction Engineering and Management Group, represented by Dean Ashton Plamenco, Dr. Diocel Harold Aquino, Dr. Fernando Germar, and Ammiel Barros will be awarded $25,000 for their winning solution.  

It involved retrofitting foundations for low-income homes. The global challenge was launched in October 2020.

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