Philippine Stock Exchange

Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Philippines

CB Engineers was selected by the Ayala Development Group to provide consulting services as the sustainability consultant and commissioning agent for the new Philippine Stock Exchange Office Building.

The project is a new 650,000 sq.ft. high rise office tower complex located in Bonifacio Global City, a business district of Metro Manila in the Philippines. The project is named for its anchor tenant the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) although the PSE will be occupying only about 108,000 sq. ft.. or 15% of the total projected floor area. The project is being designed as a LEED Gold, Class A office space (referred to as Triple A Office Space in Manila) and will seek high profile tenants such as headquarters of large multinationals, with the retail section housing the Apple Store, Manila as the anchor tenant. To match the projects ambitious design goals, the Ownership Group has insisted on retaining a world class design team which includes Skidmore Owings & Merrill, SOM; EDAW and CB Engineers along with qualified local architects and engineers as the designers or record.

The project is attempting to become the first LEED Gold building in the Philippines. To achieve this CB Engineers was retained to manage the LEED process from a design and construction standpoint and to assist with the LEED submittal process. To this end, CB Engineers is assisting the Team with LEED point review and analysis and management of the LEED and sustainability program which extends to all aspects of the building design.