UAP BRITISH COLUMBIA CHAPTER

Philippine-registered architects based in Greater Vancouver BC Canada have joined hands together to unite themselves as a professional group to be known as United Architects of the Philippines British Columbia Chapter.

The idea of forming the UAP BC Chapter has been going on for the past few years now and has been strengthened by the clamour of increasing numbers of Filipino immigrants architects who are arriving to British Columbia each year.   Joe Larano initiated the formation of the chapter by organizing the core group of the chapter in the latter part of 2010. In November 2010,  he visited UAP National Office in Quezon City Philippines to personally inquire the  possible formation of UAP British Columbia. In the following month, he was joined by Caesar Pascual and eventually in January 2011 Melvin Castro,  Jasby Barredo, Felix Tan and Edna Lim joined in the initiative. The official group formation was launched last January 22, 2011 during the Membership Registration and Information meeting held in Richmond BC Canada. The event was attended by 32 Philippine-registered architects who are willing to become members of the chapter. Charter members unanimously approved and affirmed Resolution No. 001, resolution creating the UAP British Columbia Chapter.
The elected Officers and Directors of UAP BC Chapter:

 Joe Larano – President

Caesar Pascual – VP Operations

Felix Tan – Asst. VP Operations

Eric Ching - VP Programs and Development

 Karen San Pedro – Secretary

Edna Lim – Treasurer

 Antonio Edwin Rigor- Auditor

 Jasby Barredo – Diretor

Carlo Borja – Director

Melvin Castro- Director

 Raquel Palmero- Director

 Joy Mescallado – Director

UAP BC Chapter is being supported by the UAP Ontario Chapter as its endorser and sponsor through its Board Resolution which was sent to the UAP National Office.
The chapter is currently awaiting the  recognition and approval from the National Board of Directors, UAP National Office QC, Philippines.

I am a REVIT newbie

by Joe Larano, Jr. Richmond BC
I was privileged to attend a 3-day training seminar in Revit in Vancouver  beginning February 16, 2011. In the company of two other staff, our office sent us to become adept if not expert in the use of this software. The training seminar was conducted by a leading REVIT/BIM technology firm offering package services to architectural and AEC offices in Vancouver and the rest of British Columbia. We were fortunate enough to have an expert Revit instructor who apaprently knows the’ ins’ and ‘outs’ of Revit.

Revit is a Building Information Modeling software for Microsoft Windows, developed by Autodesk. It allows the user to design with both parametric 3D modeling and 2D drafting elements. Building Information Modeling is a Computer Aided Design (CAD) paradigm that employs intelligent 3D objects to represent real physical building components such as walls and doors.