“Our main purpose for organizing this open house is to showcase our alternative construction materials that would definitely save at least 10% of the total construction cost, reduce the completion time, and make it at least 10% faster to complete.” said Priometal President and CEO Engr. Jeffrey S. Co. “If you have an existing design, we can adapt it to our system.”
The innovative building system comes just in time for the administration’s Build, Build, Build infrastructure development program and the big-ticket investments coming into Northern Mindanao.
Last year, Northern Mindanao alone accounted for the lion’s share of the P907.2 billion investments registered with the Board of Investments (BOI) in 2018 with P228.8 billion or 25.2% of the total, well above the P7.2 billion a year ago, for an astounding 3,063% increase.
The region looks to build up from that figure in 2019 when big ticket projects such as Ayala Land’s Habini Bay project in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental takes off and the relocation of the Head factory from China and the Integrated Steel Mill complex at the Phividec Industrial Estate-Misamis Oriental and the revival of the National Steel Corporation in Iligan City gets going.
“We are further expanding our BahaiCo Bahay Mo building system (iCO Building Frames and Functions ™) that integrates various innovative building technologies into one versatile system guaranteed to deliver stronger, faster to construct, and more economical buildings.” Co said.
“Our solution for this is to apply the iCO Building Frames and Functions (iCO means Innovative Concept and F&F is our total system for implementation,” he added.
Drawing mostly from his two decades of exposure to the construction industry, the system has put together for the first time ever innovative products which when deployed together as an integrated unit, answers most, if not all, of the end users needs for durable, faster, and affordable buildings.
“Cast-in-place, Pre-Cast and I beams are just some of the existing technologies combined with our iCO In-filled Metal Columns & Beams that are brought together in our building system so that it becomes stronger and durable, faster to construct, safer, yet more affordable than existing designs and concepts now offered in the Philippine construction industry,” Co explained.
The system used is akin to the concept of open system architecture in computers which allows the creation of add-on products that increase a system's flexibility, functionality, inter-operability, potential use, useful life and enables the end-users to customize and extend their chosen system's capabilities to suit individual requirements.
“Unlike the usual industry practice, our iCO Building Frames and Functions™ can be custom-designed by PMC to best suit the main purpose of your building, and complete construction and delivery under the usual industry standards using a combination of our various systems that is most ideal for you, and a cost that is ultra competitive to conventional building methods and materials now favored by most contractors,” Co stressed.
“Our iCO Building Frames & Functions are implemented through innovative manufactured projects of PrioMetal Corporation. “It is composed of iCO Column and Beam Frames and Functions using our iCO Meta Purlins (Benefits are zero waste, cut to size, zero formworks); iCO Roofing Frames & Functions using our iCO Meta Purlins (benefits: zero waste, cut to size); iCO Flooring Frames & Functions using our iCO Meta Purlins (benefits: zero waste, cut to size; iCO Walling Frames & Functions using our 6mm studs and tracks (benefits: zero plastering works, faster to complete walling works); iCO Ceiling Frames & Functions using Triple Furrings (benefits: easy to install and faster to complete ceiling works); iCO FICEM flush doors & iCO PVC Doors, and to complete the whole building, our iCO Building Frames and Functions are complemented by fiber cement boards, APO vinyl tiles,Jaybuilders MetaFlus Doors and all other quality products and services from reputable companies which together form an integral part of our present and future projects.”
Co said their industrial partners will all be present in the covered court inside the Kauswagan Barangay Hall Compound where they will be available to better explains and answer all your queries regarding their products during the May 29-30 Open House.
“As you can see from our products, we are a company that thinks ‘out-of-the-box’, and what you see now is by no means the only products we can offer you in the next few months,” Co said. “We are conducting continuous research and development so our products are continuously evolving for the better.”
Using as a benchmark the 8-unit Bachelor’s Pad where the system’s launching was held last January, Co said the BahaiCO Bahay Mo system resulted in 22% savings in total cost compared to a conventional concrete building (P19.5K vs. P25k per sq.m.)
The savings were realized due to cheaper material and labor costs on top of taking a faster time to complete.
“BahaiCO Bahay Mo uses minimal form and shoring works, and no wooden scaffoldings. Our iCO Meta Purlin are pre-cut, pre-fabricated and pre-labeled in our plant resulting in zero waste.”
Its 22 columns only took 3 days to erect, and the complete assembly of the 8-unit frames and purlins only four weeks to complete.
Thus, the whole building would be finished in only 5 months, compared to at least 8 months for conventional ones. That‘s 3 months saved, and by itself already a two month advantage in rental earnings.
“I believe we have already achieved our goal to provide ‘a better home every Juan deserves’,” Co noted. “Now it’s time to share the benefits of our technology to the industry in Mindanao.”
The model unit is also open to visitors to view and is located in Dove Street, Kauswagan, and a short five minute walk across the Open House Exhibit at Kauswagan Barangay Hall.
