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      The necessity of more structures warrants the demand of civil engineers who can guarantee standard services. Filipino civil engineers are known to be globally competitive. They exert full effort when doing projects to ensure their client’s contentment upon their performances. With this, vast number of Filipino civil engineers has achieved excellence advancing their trademark of their field of work nationwide and worldwide.
    The success of engineers start at their training grounds. Civil engineers must practice their profession through quality education that they can get from universities that render the Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Program. A lot of standard universities are available here in the Philippines such as the University of the Philippines (UP), De Las Salle University Manila (DLSU), Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), University of Sto. Tomas (UST), and the University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP). These universities are certified by reliable accrediting associations such as the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU). Also, they produce excellent graduates that are among the CE Licensure Exam passers with high-passing rate.
    

Unleashing the Emblem of a Building

        Citing beyond great pretension resources of a building can yield to great prominent discoveries, but distinct things a building can proffer through generations are many to mention.

     “No man is an island” is bold statement and a famous cliché in various texts, but in the real world it is indeed true. Buildings were built not just for landmarks, tourist spot, or even a background of your selfie photo. Let us enumerate the uses of a building nowadays;

      First, buildings dealt with applications in the community, wherein it is a bridge for interaction where people communicate and confront each other to have a specific goal. A goal on which business proposes arises such as investments, networking, and even partnership on which those have relation to money where money grows.

      Malls and hotels have been continuously considered as building for public to serve in view of their interests. Interests in line with art, fashion, health, adventure, travel and career. This kind of building is to satisfy these interests.
 

            Second, when a building meets its uses as application in the community then it can be also a boon to surroundings. In terms of it, a building can make and give money not literally but specifically a way to alleviate the people that finds hard time to look up for a job due to the limited availability of vacancies, by that, commercial buildings are now equipped to deplete the numerous number of jobless to be able for them to have a position. Not just it makes and produces money but it is also a good way to start a commitment of excellence especially in the Philippines. Buildings in the Philippines are old-fashioned one because Filipino tradition is to preserve the historical things and that’s their culture, but it doesn’t mean that those buildings are worthless instead they were innovated to be the center of attraction in the Philippines, and since they were innovated, now the old-fashioned buildings transformed into a museum to mass produce its use as research area for students and it’s an excellent to many people where it can be shown globally. One best example is what Filipino’s used to call “Intramuros”, the oldest district and historical spot of Manila which came from a Latin word Intramuros – meaning “within the walls”.


        Innovation is an art of transforming one thing to modernization. Some buildings in the Philippines like malls and commercial buildings are now catering outdoor activities like sky walking, sky jumping and even zip lines and that is because of innovation wherein a one-purpose thing can be change to multi-tasking. One can create a memory of great experience through a building here in the Philippines which offers sky experience adventures at the Tower 1, Crown Regency Hotel and Towers, Fuente Towers, Cebu City quoting “ take your adventure to the extreme” . Implies that buildings in the Philippines have committed its excellence and it does not left the trend of the modern era. By means of those, buildings are boon to surroundings.


         Applications in the community, boon to surroundings, bridge for interaction, makes and gives money and commitment to excellence. If we are going to look deeper those are just primary objectives of a building. Leaning to the major objective s the building unleash its function we can find that the true purpose of the building is building coalition. 
 

         A coalition is a temporary alliance or partnering of groups in order to achieve a common purpose or to engage in joint activity. Coalition building is the process by which parties (individuals, organizations, or nations) come together to form a coalition. Forming coalitions with other groups of similar values, interests, and goals allows members to combine their resources and become more powerful than when they each acted alone.
 

        The "ability to build coalitions is a basic skill for those who wish to attain and maintain power and influence. Through buildings coalitions have made. Coalition building is the "primary mechanism through which disempowered parties can develop their power base and thereby better defend their interests. Coalitions may be built around any issue and at any scale of society, from neighborhood issues to international conflict. The formation of a coalition can shift the balance of power in a conflict situation and alter the future course of the conflict.
 

        Over troubled pile of blocks, cements and metals where amidst of those you can find prominent discoveries that marks as the emblematic genuine purpose of a building through generations which is building a coalition, it builds a lasting base for change. Once Filipinos unite, each Filipinos vision of change broadens and it becomes more difficult for other country to disregard the coalition's efforts as dismissible or as special interests, coalition that was the emblem of a building here in the Philippines, because this is all we have and this is all we need.

By Mary Kareen Faye Abellar and Jack Frank Celocia

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