What has Neal been doing?
Hello, this is Rey Mante from RCM Fareast Design and Build. We have a mutual colleague and as I move around the country, a number of people ask me how my associate Archt. Neal Punsalan is doing. So I decided that the best thing to do was to include an update on his activities in our newsletter.
In case you don’t know me, I am the Chief Excecutive Officer of RCM Fareast Design and Build. I meet Neal when we were both working on the Davao International Airport Development. I was in awe of the work and the experience Neal had, so I asked him to join me as my Consultant and eventually the Chief Architect.
As the Chief Architect in RCMFDnB, Archt. neal as we fondly call him, is responsible for coordinating with the six disciplines we have within our company. Currently a good portion of our work is in design collaboration. We are working on the design and construction of hotel chains in the U.S.A., and have been doing this for a decade now.
When Neal came to our company, we were a small team of 8 people. With the vision we both shared, of giving local professionals the opportunity to work internationally, our business started to flourish to where we now have 40 plus staff totally committed to design collaboration work and now successfully diverting to local design and construction.
So what has Neal been doing over the last few years?
It would be fair to go back a while. Archt. Neal was The Dean of Architecture at the University of Assumption in San Fernando, Pampanga. He has been accredited to the turnaround of the College of Architecture being a flag ship of the University of the Assumption.
Neal shifted to Davao City from Manila where he worked on high end residential land design work for Robinson Land. We meet when he was the Senior Architect of Leandro V. Locsin and Partners on the Davao International Airport Project. This work consisted in the design of the new terminal covering all the buildings for a Category 1 international airport, which is now fully operational.
Over the years Neal has enjoyed many wonderful experiences working on projects in Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, U.S.A, Singapore, Qatar, as well as in Brunei Darussallam. I love hearing him talk about his most fascinating project, that was the design and building of the Palace for the Sultan of Brunei. This spanned a four year design/construction period.
Neal is an active corporate member of the United Architects of the Philippines Kadayawan-Dabaw Chapter and the Philippine Institute of Architects Greater Davao Section and assists in the examination process of aspiring architects being a Reviewer at the University of Mindanao for the architects licensurate examinations.
Within the RCMFDnB, Neal is very active in the expansion program of our business into various states with in the USA. In fact you may be able to help Neal and our company. If you are aware of any one in the USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore or Malaysia who is looking for reputable Design Collaboration business, then we suggest that you contact Neal on his email address, jnspunsalan@yahoo.com.
You can visit our online magazine http://rcmdavao.blogspot.com and see up to date photos and Neal and his work. There is also our website www.rcmfareast.com
May we wish you every success!
Engr. Rey Mante, PICE
CEO RCM Fareast Design and Build
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