U.P. PLANADES maintains a highly-respected multi-disciplinary staff complement of planning, management, finance and design professionals who have been involved in the successful planning and implementation of environmentally-sensitive and economically-sound development plans.

 

U.P. PLANADES will make available for Clients a rare combination of knowledge and unique planning experience developed through years of research and teaching, involvement in master plan preparation at both the regional and urban levels, in environmental impact assessment studies, as well as in investment planning and programming of development projects.

 

Its distinct advantages over other consultancy groups may usefully be noted:

• Fore more than 38 years, U.P. PLANADES has a strong track record in the preparation of Master Plans and Land Use Plans for various local governments, GOCCs, and private developers.
• The overwhelming majority of its members (more than 75%) are Licensed Environmental Planners, easily satisfying the qualification requirements of the Philippine Regulatory Board for consultancy firms to engage in environmental planning practice under R.A 10587; and
• U.P. PLANADES has strong linkages with, and can draw expertise from, related units of the University of the Philippines, providing a multi-sectoral approach in planning, such as the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), the College of Engineering (CE), the National Center for Transportation Studies (NCTS), the Department of Geography, and the College of Architecture (CA).
• U.P. PLANADES also has a pool of consultants and other experts from outside the University of the Philippines, who can be tapped for specific projects and highly specialized fields of expertise.