Senate leaders on Thursday led the topping-off ceremony of the brand new Senate Building in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City.
The rites was led by Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri.
He was joined by Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva, Senators Nancy Binay, Cynthia Villar, JV Ejercito, Ronald dela Rosa, and Bong Go.
Former Senate President Tito Sotto, former Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, Public Works and Highways Secretary Manuel Bonoan, Bases Conversion and Development Authority chairperson Delfin Lorenzana, and Taguig Mayor Lani Cayetano additionally joined the incumbent senators within the ceremony.
According to Binay, chairperson of the Senate accounts committee, the topping-off ceremony is in step with the Senate’s purpose to open the constructing for partial operations by July 2024.
“May instruction kasi si Senate President Zubiri to conduct the opening of session next year sa Bagong Senado,” mentioned Binay.
(Senate President Zubiri had instructed us to conduct the opening of the session subsequent yr at Bagong Senado.)
“Ang topping-off ay isang tradition na ginagawa para gunitain ang pagkumpleto sa structural frame ng isang building sa pamamagitan ng pagkabit ng huling structural beam nito,” she added.
(The topping-off is a practice that we do to have fun the completion of the structural body of a constructing.)
Binay additionally talked about that the New Senate Building goals to be one of many first “green building-certified facilities” underneath the Building for Ecologically Responsive Design Excellence (BERDE) Program.
“In the face of climate change the government should walk the talk in promoting the use of sustainable structures,” mentioned Binay.
The NSB integrates sustainable options similar to energy-efficient techniques, water conservation measures, and using eco-friendly supplies, based on the senator.
It would additionally devour between 30% to 50% much less vitality than commonplace buildings, she added.
In the seventeenth Congress, the development of the New Senate Building was accepted after former Senator Panfilo Lacson, then-chairperson of the committee of accounts, raised the necessity to relocate to a brand new web site as a result of rising area limitations and the necessity for enhanced services. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
