Chito Santiago

LUIS P. SANTIAGO, UAP
Founding Director
Design / Managing Director
Contact: (63917) 537.8017

LUIS P. SANTIAGO is the owner and CEO of TWLS Consultancy and Design Services, a firm put up mainly to address existing defects and recommend rectification or rehabilitation of aging or problematic building structures. His work is to investigate, assess, evaluate and suggest rectification alternatives by introducing new design of modification to existing structures. His work would would usually progress into up-grading dilapidated, old design schemes to modern, attractive face-lifted facades.

He had formerly worked for a Dutch constrcution company, Ballast Nedam Groep, as an architectural quality-control inspector, gaining valuable experience on actual implementation of quality control techniques, using European standards. In 1987 he went on to be an Architectural Clerk-of-Works under the stewardship of Kinhill Mclachlan Joint Venture, an Australian construction management entity commissioned to oversee the construction of the new Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Manila. In 1994, he was recruited to join the firm, Pimentel Rodriguez Simbulan and Partners (PRSP) on a contractual assignment as a field architect, eventually elevated to the status of Associate and later, Associate Partner. His main assignment was to interpret drawings and address intricate construction peculiarities at the project sites. He was guided by his mentor, Medi Nasrabadi, formerly of SOM, while both were involved in construction of the Asian Development Bank project and other high-rise condominium ventures. In PRSP, he got in close association with Leo Casison, at that time, a Partner in the firm. They both were tasked to undertake the implementation and completion of several projects. The length of time in corroboration with each other have brought about a common work attitude and technique that have developed into a new partnership.

EDUCATION
MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
College of Architecture 1973

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION AND AFFILIATIONS
Registered Architect in the Philippines PRC 4191
United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)
Mapua Alumnae Association