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)
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.
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.
This book contains varied facets on the story of Igbaras, my hometown. With the numerous incidents related, the Igbarasnon is the central character in a setting comprised of nature's beauty. The scene opens with a legendary backdrop, in a pre-Hispanic era when Aetas and Malays lived peacefully. The roles of Marikudo, Sumakwel, Diro-an, Tamo-ok, and others are in the popular folklore of the town. Different oral versions of their existence and adventures are gathered and modified in this volume.
Like other towns all over the Philippine Islands, Igbaras evolved from the hardships and consequences of foreign rule and invasion, during the Spanish regime up to the American occupation and World War II.
Today, Igbaras is progressing in every aspect. This phase is given only a brief glance in this book, but to see the beautiful panorama of Igbaras today, the Igbarasnon is always ready to welcome everyone.
