“A critical part of building climate resilient structures is to understand weather patterns and how it affects the environment where your city or building will be,” Architect Fides Garcia-Hsu, vice president of SM Engineering Design and Development (SM EDD), explained. “During the design phase of SM City Marikina, we considered the long-term flood cycles of the Marikina Watershed, which was identified to be a high-risk area by the World Bank in 1977.”
