Since this is a site dedicated mostly to expats living in the Philippines and in this topic \"Building in the Philippines\" I will take a shot that hopefully this post goes through. PLEASE! I really don\'t know where else to turn in reaching expats with this specific topic. I am planning a large residential building project to begin sometime in December and lasting perhaps 10 months. It will be in Batangas and like most expats here I will need to rely on the site supervision of a Filipino construction engineer (over the contractor work force) for the project. Honestly, I would feel more comfortable with an American or English speaking European who has expertise in commercial building. A Developer friend of mine would be the ultimate judge of expertise when it comes to making a decision as to who would do this. Anyway, if someone has any interest in such a project perhaps they can contact me and I can provide details. I will as I mentioned before, be constantly posting in vivid detail the entire building job which hopefully should be a great education for us all. I\'m at yahoo. Thanks
I have seen all these plans, and I\'m going to do this and I\'m going to do that, but I just went ahead and did mine. I have been building for only 6 weeks now and next week we start on the roof. Sure we have a long way to go but for 45 days, that is not Filipino time but USA time.
Also maybe it is me, for the crew, the foreman both my civil engineer and my architect are brothers ,both speak fluent English plus Bisya and Tagalog so there is never a communication problem.
I just looked at over 25 projects built by this gentlemen, gave him a call and have been doing business with him every since, and as of yet i have had not to borrow a cent from the bank at that ridiculous interest rate, for he lets me pay him by the month,
I know there is much dissatisfaction with the average Filipino worker with some Americans, but I think if you treat people with respect and dignity you get in return a damn hard days work.
For me in my small part of the world, I could never find an American to work in 104 degree heat temperature in the middle of the day for 170 pesos per day? no way no way.
Murf