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Iloilo City buildings portfolio: Exposure database 2015–2022
This Volume entitled “Iloilo City Buildings Portfolio Exposure Database 2015–2022” contains the recent building stock with building permits within Iloilo City. It provides the approved building permits data from 2015 to 2022 archived at the Office of the Building Official (OBO) covering all seven (7) districts of Iloilo City composed of Arevalo, City Proper, Jaro, La Paz, Lapuz, Mandurriao, and Molo.
The database, which is approximately 5% of the existing buildings or structures in Iloilo City, specifies for each building the coded building permit number or OBO Code, the address, the floor area, the number of storeys, the lateral load resisting system, the cost of the structure or market value, and the type of occupancy whether residential, commercial, institutional, educational, industrial, accessory or heritage buildings.
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Iloilo City earthquake model: Event-based probabilistic seismic risk assessment
Each earthquake event generates a specific ground motion field on a particular site. The ground motion field or hazard, impacts buildings and structures in the area at different levels of severity dependent on various site-specific factors such as the intensity of ground shaking, physical vulnerability of the structures, and soil condition underneath the structures. Understanding the building losses that may be incurred from thousands of probable earthquake events, especially in rapidly-developing cities may engender an informed basis for policies leading to risk reduction and disaster mitigation. Long-term economic investors, for instance, might be able to take into account probable business interruption extent, economic impact, and quick recovery preparations in the event of foreseeable disruptive earthquakes. These may be achieved when earthquake hazard and event-based probabilistic seismic risk assessment is in place.
Iloilo City was selected as the pilot city for the first-ever city-wide event-based probabilistic seismic risk assessment in the Philippines. Being a dynamic first-class highly-urbanized city in Western Visayas, with structures and houses over 100,000, including modern high-rise buildings and centuries-old heritage buildings, and an estimated current population of almost 500,000, the city is poised for an investment influx. With the aggressive cooperation and technical collaboration of the City Government and the immediate availability of workable exposure data, this study came to fruition. A 2-volume report on the event-based probabilistic seismic risk assessment of Iloilo City was produced.
The first volume contains the technical details involved in the development and completion of the study, including full-page ground motion hazard and risk maps, and their corresponding tables. -
Iloilo, an Episode of January, 1899, and Strained Relations in Manila
Excerpt from Iloilo, an Episode of January, 1899, and Strained Relations in Manila, Vol. 6: First Series; February 25, 1901
December 13, 1898, General Otis received a petition from certain business men in Iloilo, asking for American protection there. Next day he cabled to Washington telling of the petition, stating that the Spanish authorities were still holding out in Iloilo but would receive American troops, and asking for instructions.
December 23, those instructions arrived. The President directs that you send necessary troops to Iloilo, to pre serve the peace and protect life and property. It is most important that there should be no conflict with the insurgents. Be conciliatory, but firm. General Otis at once cabled General Rios, in command of the Spanish troops at Iloilo, that he was sending a large American force. On the 24th, General Otis heard that General Rios intended to leave Iloilo that same day. Efforts were immediately made, says General Otis, to communicate by other means with General Rios before he could evacuate the city. Lieutenant Colonel Potter was sent at once on a coasting vessel to Iloilo. -
Iloilo, the most noble city: History and development 1566-1898
The book gives a wealth of historical data on Iloilo City on 1566 to 1898, and situates it in the context of the history of elegiac Panay as well as that of revolutionary Philippines. Notably, the book mentions the story of the Ilongo volunteers fighting against the Katipunan (hence Queen Maria Cristina of Spain calling it La Muy Noble Ciudad), growth of the sugarcane and textile industries, and the emergence of Graciano Lopez Jaena and the Propaganda Movement.
Iloilo, the Most Noble City by Rev. Fr. Policarpo F. Hernandez, ObA is a well-written and excellent piece of scholarly historical research.
Professional historians, history students, researchers and enthusiasts will profit much from reading it. While the basic frame of interest is the valuable contributions of the Augustinian Order in Iloilo, generally unknown, and therefore, unappreciated, the book will be of much help in the study of Iloilo history. -
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Mobile museum boxes: Conserving the natural history of the Visayas region
This second edition of the Mobile Museum Boxes book highlights the history, fabrication, and implementation of this project as we seek to establish more innovative exhibition concepts for universal access and inclusivity. In this book, we featured an intensive approach to the content of each of the boxes to provoke further interest in various scientific fields — taxonomy, systematics, and conservation biology. It is our pride to showcase the natural heritage of the Visayas in all forms of access such as literary, digital, and tangible exhibitions now situated in the National Museum Western Visayas. (from the Foreword) -
Ortograpiyang Hiligaynon
Ortoraphy or the spelling system of the Hiligaynon language -
