LYING BENEATH SELECT SM MALLS ARE STRUCTURES THAT CAN SAVE LIVES AND PROPERTIES

May 13, 2023 Community Billboard

SM Prime Holdings, the country’s largest integrated property developer, is no stranger to massive flooding. In a country visited by an average of 20 typhoons a year. It recognizes the devastation that flooding causes, the lives it puts at risk, and the overall potential danger which has become critical considerations for any of its new property developments. To help mitigate a flooding disaster in communities where SM Supermalls are located, SM Prime builds enormous “catchment tanks” underneath its malls. At SM City Baguio, the rainwater catchment is located at the lowest level of the parking building. The tank occupies approximately 3,159 square meters or twice the size of the Baguio City Botanical Garden. It has a capacity to hold 6,390 cubic meters of water, equivalent to two and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools.