Prince Plaza II Residential High-Rise Building, Dela Rosa Str. Central Business District, Makati City, MM, PH. In the middle ‘1980s, Foundation Specialists, Inc had promoted the construction of deep basement construction for High Rise Buildings, employing one of FS Top-Down Construction Technologies, the Cast In Place Reinforced Concrete Diaphragm Walls, [DW]. At that time, In PH, DW was only carried by Foundation Specialists, Inc. DW technology enabled the excavation and construction of multi-level underground parking, in soft soil formations with high water table, and in areas already heavily built up, next to other buildings with one or no basement at all. Foundation Specialists, Inc. [FS] had already extensively used the Cast in Place Diaphragm Walls Technology for deep Pit Construction of Industrial Plants, Wharfs, Dry Docks , Cofferdams, Earth Dams’ Core and for Impervious Underground Curtains for Dams, starting from 1977 for the Kalayaan Pump Storage Hydropower Project in Laguna. Developers and Structural Engineers saw the advantages of the DW Technologies of FS, and high rise Buildings started to be designed with multi-level underground basements, which took care of the demand for parking spaces for the residents. Using Cast In Place RC DW executed under static Bentonite suspension, FS has built deep multi-level basements in Manila, Pasay , Paranaque, Makati.. Several Developers then requested FS to build also the High Rise Building on top of the Deep Underground Basements and Prince Plaza II was one of those buildings. Built on top of a six level underground structure. Prince Plaza II (PPII) was the first Luxury Condo Building made mostly of Studio Type and One Bedroom Apartments, built within Commercial and Business Centers. The success of PPII opened the way to a proliferation of such Buildings. PPII is a large building, 26 storeys high, with 6 level underground levels, 5 levels used for car parking. Swimming pools and other amenities are on top of the 26th storeys. Two towers, separated by a seismic joint, form the very elegant building. Entirely built by Foundation Specialists, Inc, as General Contractor FS has built several high rise buildings, and, same as FS has done for Bridges, FS has only accepted buildings’’ construction contracts inclusive of buildings’ foundations, insofar as the safety of a building is not only assured by a strongly built structure, but needs strong foundations, built to resist strong earthquakes without damage.

PRINCE PLAZA II

MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA