3 & 4 APR 2024

Singapore Expo

Rei Gene Villarosa and Rizah Mae Picarana: Speaking at the Disasters Expo Asia

Rei Gene Villarosa and Rizah Mae Picarana

RISE Structural Design, Inc.

Disaster-proofed: Designing One Step Ahead

This seminar explores different structures that is part of a Japanese structural designers life. We will focus not on the architectural, residential/commercial buildings, but on unmanned structures that ensure the safety of living and non-living things alike from natural disasters (e.g. Tsunami, Earthquake, Tornado etc.). Come and experience various structural innovations that mitigate massive effects of earthquake from the Land of the Rising Sun!

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About Rei Gene Villarosa and Rizah Mae Picarana

Rei Villarosa is a licensed civil engineer who earned his degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines. Previously employed by Philippine Nippon Steel Construction, he promoted steel sheet piles for soil erosion mitigation during natural disasters. Now, Rei is a design engineer for RISE Structural Design, Japan where he deals with design, analysis, and seismic diagnosis of power plants, piping systems, and other structures to withstand large earthquakes based on Japanese code.

Rizah is licensed in civil engineering from the Philippines and is currently part of the plant and piping design department at RISE Structural Design. One of her challenging works involves the structure seismic diagnosis of nuclear power plants and structural design for marine loading arms that should withstand natural disasters especially earthquakes. She also had an opportunity to share one of her works in Bentley Regional Seminar 2019 held in Tokyo.