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  • MyRainbow Place Dormitory offers free accomodation for COVID-19 frontliners

    • Posted on: 24 March 2020
    • By: mequintin

    In this time of crisis and trying times, good samaritans can still be found. In a phone interview of Kabayan Noli De Castro in his teleradyo show in DZMM this morning with Mr. Beda Manalac of Solid Group Inc, it is heartwarming to learn that they are offering their dormitory facility in Tandang Sora, Quezon City to Frontliners as a temporary shelter.

     

    Photo Credit: Wilson Lee Flores

     

    MyRainbow Place Dormitory for frontliners

    MyRainbow Place Place Dormitory, located at Banlat Tandang Sora, Quezon City is said to have 104 rooms divided into 5 buildings or clusters. Each room can accommodate four (4) people and has bunk beds, CR, tables and chairs. It was built using modern prefab technology by MyHouse and built to help students and young working professionals.

    President at Solid Manila Corporation

     

    According to Mr. Manalac, since their student tenants are home and there are four available clusters, they wanted to OFFER it as temporary shelter of Frontliners like medical officers and nurses who are far away from their homes.

    Partnership with local government

    At this moment, Mr. Manalac said that they are already in contact with Quezon City Hall, Mayor Joy Belmonte’s office to propagate the initiative since the office of the mayor will be the one to contact the hospitals, and to set  guidelines to whom can avail the free offering. As per Mr. Manalac, there are also other good samaritans that have approached them to offer food for our frontliners.

    In a separate interview today of Mr. Manalac  with Net 25, he mentioned that helping the Frontliners is not enough until we are able to build new rooms for quarantine and treatment. And has mentioned that they have developed a field hospital center proposal that is fast to build and help our overloaded hospitals.

     

    Upon checking the pages of Solid Group, we came across their other company “MyHouse”. It has a project for FIELD HOSPITALS FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE. According to the information we gathered on their page, it was the same technology used by China in building quarantine hospitals for their COVID-19 patients. And we hope to learn more about these projects soon.

    In times that we might think that we are losing hope, it’s good to know that there are still good people who are out there to help us, our country and our kababayan. We want to see more positive news like this, right?

     

     

    Source: Village Pipol, March 24, 2020 by VPADMIN

     

     

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  • APEC 2015 SPECIAL PROJECT

    • Posted on: 30 June 2016
    • By: gene

    Solid Video Corporation (SVC) won the bid for the turn-key project commissioned by RTVM for the APEC 2015 International Media Center (IMC) at the World Trade Center which included a full technical operation center, media booths, studios, stages and briefing rooms with equipment and technical crew, satellite and fiber transmission, entrance and reception, and even a massage area giving a free shoulder rubs for weary jet-lagged media personnel from all over the world.
     
    Working on a very tight schedule, SVC successfully completed the project with RTVM, top professional and key players from the industry like CMB Films, Dreaweaver, Telecomserve uplink, Converge fiber, Skycable, NDS stage rentals, MyHouse modulars who provided exemplary integrated solutions and services, even going beyond what the project specification called for, thus delivering one of the best IMC in APEC's 21-year history.
     
    Meanwhile, APEC 2015 also provided a unique opportunity for synergy among SGI affiliates; from SVC as project leader to MyHouse and Green Sun for facilities, to my|phone and Avid/Sony for products used, and to Omni, Solid Service and Zen Towers for support services.
     
    To our project partners and the over 400 manpower involved who made this happhen, Thank you and Mabuhay!

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  • Rebuilding from the ruins of Yolanda

    • Posted on: 25 April 2014
    • By: superadmin2014

    It all started out as a simple but meaningful gesture of giving back or generosity. To lend a hand in the rehabilitation efforts following the destruction wrought by Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) on November 8, 2013, the Chairman Emeritus of the Solid Group Inc, Attorney Elena S. Lim, spearheaded a project to build twenty-seven units of twin classrooms (fifty-four in total) in several devastated areas.

    Attorney Lim grew up in Tacloban and walked its streets before being forced out by a fire that consumed half of Tacloban. The project was her way of giving back and helping her former city mates.

    Solid Group Inc (SGI) holdings company ordered the modular classrooms from Yahgee Modular House Ltd of China. Yahgee is the world’s largest manufacturer of modular and pre-fab structures and is the partner of Solid Group Technologies Corp or My|House (a subsidiary of SGI).

    The modular structures use prefabricated insulated sandwich panels technology. They can withstand winds of up to 230 kilometers an hour and earthquakes of up to intensity. The modular units can be assembled and disassembled up to six times. One month is 3enough to build two classrooms.

    Learning that the units ordered were for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda, Yahgee gave a big discount to SGI to lower the costs of the latter.

    On November 2013, the materials were shipped to the Philippines via Cebu. It proved to be a costly exercise as a huge backlog developed in Cebu due to the heavy influx of relief goods and materials from many external organizations and donation groups. Cebu port and Customs were not equipped to handle this surge and this soon developed into a bottleneck.

    The goods were released partially in December 2013 and fully transferred to Mandaue warehouse by early January 2014. This was due to a large extent to the intervention of Mr Jason Lim who arranged to expedite the release and transfer of the materials.

    Construction went full swing 3rd week of January 2014. Efforts were hampered by lack of cement, temperature bars, gravel and sand, and in some cases, by lack of back fill materials. But, by the grace of God, and the solid determination of everyone involved (from management til the contractors teams), construction pushed through and was finished by end February 2014.
    All sites were done and divided among three teams of contractors working simultaneously. The chairs and tables were handled by another supplier and came in just before the inaugural turnover and blessing.

    On March 20, 2014, Atty Elena Sen Lim, Mrs Maria Isabel Ongpin (friend of Mrs Lim), Mr Jason Lim and Rudolph Panlilio and Jingo Fermin (My|House team) flew to Tacloban to symbolically turn-over the 54 classrooms to the people of Tacloban and Ormoc City. Present at the turnover rites were officials from both the national and local governments and the seven school principals of the recipient schools.

    Overall, it was a long, exhausting but very fruitful journey from conception to construction. As Vice Mayor Yaokasin puts it: “No words can capture how grateful the people of Tacloban are for these donated classrooms. It was worth the wait.” Fitting words for a journey that began with a simple step of reaching out.

    Written by Jingo Fermin, president of Solid Group Technologies Corporation (My|House).
    25 April 2014, Oclarim Macau Catholic Weekly

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