Land use planning sits at the core of the practice. Arch. Allí prepares conceptual land use plans and master development plans for cities, municipalities, estates, and special-purpose sites, and has assisted large local government units with comprehensive land-water-air-subsurface use plans, the expanded form of the comprehensive land use plan (CLUP), over the past fifteen years. Transportation facility and infrastructure planning engagements have included railway, airport, and reclamation projects of national scale.
Selected planning engagements, from the North-South Commuter Railway to New Clark City, are documented in his selected work.
Zoning gives a land use plan legal effect, and drafting it well is regulatory work as much as planning work. Arch. Allí formulates development control regulations for LGUs and national agencies, from zoning ordinances and special ordinances to legislative bills and building regulations, including the correct sequential application of comparative international, national, and local development controls. He helped prepare zoning and special ordinances for the Cities of Makati, Pasay, and Pasig, three of Metro Manila's central business districts.
Concept-level design and independent review anchored on rare authorship: Arch. Allí was instrumental in revising the architectural sections of the 2004 Revised IRR of P.D. No. 1096, the National Building Code of the Philippines, and continues to serve as an NBCP resource person for the DPWH and the DILG Local Government Academy. Owners, developers, and design firms engage him for concept architecture and for design reviews that test building permit documents against the code before they are submitted.
An accredited alternative dispute resolution (ADR) professional for the Philippine construction industry, Arch. Allí handles construction arbitration and mediation between owners, contractors, and consultants, from contract disputes to technical assessments. Engagements draw on both his design practice and his regulatory work, which is what construction disputes usually turn on.
Parties considering arbitration or mediation can outline the dispute in confidence to check availability and conflicts.
End-to-end management of consulting engagements and targeted advisory for owners, boards, and institutions, including project management of contracted consulting services and the preparation of property development briefs that define a project before designers are engaged. He also conducts public and private seminar-workshops on development controls, land use, zoning, and sustainable environmental design.
A CLUP is a local government unit's long-term framework for allocating land and resources within its territory, prepared under Philippine planning law and given legal effect through a zoning ordinance. LGUs typically engage licensed environmental planners to prepare or update it; Arch. Allí has assisted large LGUs with land use plans, zoning ordinances, and special ordinances for over fifteen years.
Environmental planning is a regulated profession under R.A. No. 10587. Practice requires licensure from the Professional Regulation Commission as an Environmental Planner (EnP). Arch. Allí is a licensed EnP, a Fellow of the Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners, and was named the PRC's Most Outstanding Environmental Planner in 2018.
A construction arbitrator resolves disputes between owners, contractors, and consultants outside the courts, producing a binding decision after hearing both sides on contractual and technical issues. Arch. Allí is an accredited alternative dispute resolution professional for the Philippine construction industry and also accepts mediation engagements.
The National Building Code, P.D. No. 1096 (1977), sets the minimum standards governing the design, construction, use, and maintenance of buildings in the Philippines, implemented through its 2004 Revised IRR. Arch. Allí helped revise the architectural sections of the 2004 Revised IRR and serves as an NBCP resource person for the DPWH and the DILG Local Government Academy.
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