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1. Instructor: Engr. Jerica Mae Taberna
PLUMBING IN THE
PHILIPPINES
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UNIVERSITY of NORTHERN PHILIPPINES
College of Engineering

2. History of Plumbing in the
Philippines
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3. ❑ The WALLED CITY known as Intramuros was
established by the Spaniards a sa model community. The
Friar Engineers who built the government buildings,
residential and other structures, incorporated European
standards in their plumbing installations.
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17th Century
❑ The Filipino plumbers were assigned the task of maintaining, repairing and/or
remodeling plumbing systems in all "pueblos" or towns including churches, convents
and government buildings.
❑ The recognized plumbers then were called upon by the ''ilustrados" or the elite group
to act as consultants of plumber journeymen on matters pertaining to plumbing
installations in villas and mansions.
18th and 19th Century

4. ❑ With the arrival of the American soldiers, engineers, Thomasite teachers, doctors
and evangelists. Health and hygiene became priority when epidemics including
cholera, leprosy. Schistosomiasis and other contagious diseases engulfed the
Philippines. Alarmed, Governor General Harrison issued a letter of instruction on
proper waste disposal in all municipalities.
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20th Century
• 1902
❑ PLUMBING TRADE was duly recognized by the government. The City of Manila
was the model community. Master Plumber John F. Hass became the first Chief of
the Division of Plumbing Construction and Inspection.
❑ Through the initiative of the Filipino Master Plumbers, a plumbing code based on
the Plumbing Code of the United States was incorporated into the Building Code
for the City of Manila.

5. ❑ With the arrival of the American soldiers, engineers, Thomasite teachers, doctors
and evangelists. Health and hygiene became priority when epidemics including
cholera, leprosy. Schistosomiasis and other contagious diseases engulfed the
Philippines. Alarmed, Governor General Harrison issued a letter of instruction on
proper waste disposal in all municipalities.
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20th Century
• 1902
❑ PLUMBING TRADE was duly recognized by the government. The City of Manila
was the model community. Master Plumber John F. Hass became the first Chief of
the Division of Plumbing Construction and Inspection.
❑ Through the initiative of the Filipino Master Plumbers, a plumbing code based on
the Plumbing Code of the United States was incorporated into the Building Code
for the City of Manila.

6. ❑ In 1935, Francisco Geronimo, Mariano de Ocampo, Igmidio Suarez, Eusebio Mina
Jose Rivera, Raymundo Reyes, Sr., Roberto Feliciano, Gregorio Lazaro, Raymundo
Gumapac, John Jones, Trinitario Ortiz, Valentin Casupanan, Catalino Casupanan.
Crispin Francisco, Teodoro Pastor, Cornelio Odvina and Jesus Tanghal Dera
organized the National Master Plumbers Association of the Philippines (NAMPAP)
and had it registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
❑ Initiated by NAMPAP, the Department of Public Services of the City of Manila was
created by an Act of Congress. City Ordinance 2411, otherwise known as "the
Plumbing Code for the City of Manila" was enacted in consultation with
NAMPAP. The practice of plumbing was eventually placed under the Department
of Public Services, Manila.
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• 1935

7. ❑ The Third Congress of the Republic of the Philippines in its Second
Session, approved after the third reading House Bill No. 962. This became
Republic Act No.l378. On June 18, 1955, R.A. 1378, otherwise known as
the "PLUMBING LAW OF THE PHILIPPINES" was signed by President
Ramon Magsaysay.
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• 1954
❑ On January 28, 1959, the National Plumbing Code of the Philippines
prepared by the NAMPAP was promulgated and approved by Malacanang.
NAMPAP also assisted in the passage of the law creating the National
Waterworks and Sewerage Authority (NAWASA).
• 1959

8. ❑ The Board of Examiners for Master Plumbers and the NAMPAP prepared a
Curriculum for Plumbing Engineering that was approved by the
Department of Education and was first introduced at the Feati University.
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• 1966 -1969
❑ On November 28, 1967, the First Amendment to the National Plumbing
Code was approved, which effected the inclusion of "Asbestos Cement
Pipe" as an approved plumbing material.
• 1967

9. ❑ Before Martial Law in 1972, Republic Act No. 6541 otherwise known as
the “Building Code of the Philippines” was passed with the "National
Plumbing Code of 1959" as referral code in full text.
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• 1972
❑ NAMPAP President JAIME M. CABASE spearheaded the updating of the Revised
National Plumbing Code. Finally, in October 1999, NAMPAP submitted the Draft
Code to the Board of Master Plumbers (BoMP) Chaired by Engr. FORTUNATO
H. AMOSCO. After careful review, the Professional Regulation Commission under
Chairman HERMOGENES POBRE adopted the Revised Plumbing Code of 1999
which His Excellency, President JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA approved last
December 21, 1999 pursuant to Section 4 of R.A. 1378 known as the Plumbing
Law.
• 1996

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History of the PSSE

11. History of PSSE
The Philippine Society of Sanitary Engineers, Inc. (PSSE) is the only professional organization of
Sanitary Engineers in the Philippines accredited by the Professional Regulation Commission by virtue of
PRC Board Resolution No. 2009-497 & Certificate of Accreditation No. 26. The PSSE is also the only PRC
accredited Continuing Professional Education Provider for Sanitary Engineers.
❑ Before the outbreak of World War II (WWII), a group of enterprising civil
engineers with specialized studies in Sanitary Engineering obtained in the
United States of America initiated the formation PSSE. Their collective efforts
were cut short by WWII. At the time, the City of Manila through its Department
of Public Service was already practicing hygiene and sanitation with the
pioneering efforts of Engr. Emilio L. Ejercito, one of the earliest practitioners
of sanitary engineering in the Philippines.
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❑ During academic year 1943-44, when the Japanese forces allowed a select few colleges of the
University of the Philippines (UP) to open, Dr. Reynaldo M. Lesaca was appointed initially as
assistant instructor of sanitary engineering under Dr. Hilario Lara, then Dean of the Institute of
Hygiene. Dr. Lara then envisioned the establishment of a regular college department after building
up the then one-man faculty of sanitary engineering at the Institute.
❑ The UP reopened in mid-1945 after the war and mass graduations were held for those who were
unable to graduate of the Japanese occupation. Reconstruction and rehabilitation of the war-
damaged country then began and one of the first to be rehabilitated was the public water supply and
public sanitation services of Manila and surrounding areas.
❑ By the early fifties, a consensus emerged among the academicians and civil engineers to recognize
sanitary engineering as a separate and highly specialized field encompassing, as it did, biology, sanitary
chemistry and water analysis and related water and wastewater treatment against pollution.

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❑ PSSE was revived in 1951 through the pioneering efforts of Don Emilio L. Ejercito, Sr., now
acknowledged as the Father of Sanitary Engineering in the Philippines, with the help of Engr. Antonio
Menor, Engr. Lamberto Un Ocampo, among others. They worked for the propagation of the formal
course, enactment of law establishment of the formal course, enactment of law regulating the practice
of the sanitary engineering profession. ). Engr. Antonio Menor, then Metropolitan Water District
chief, was elected president. He was succeeded by Engr. Lamberto Un Ocampo and later on by Engr.
Emilio L. Ejercito, Sr.
❑ Soon after the election in 1953 of President Ramon Magsaysay, the MWD was reorganized into the
National Waterworks and Sewerage, or NAWASA, mainly through the efforts of Engr. Susano R.
Negado. Engr. Negado helped draft a law recognizing sanitary engineering (SE) as a separate
engineering specialty. In addition, the PSSE lobbied for the passage of Republic Act No. 1364 which
was enacted into law of 18 June 1955. Entitled “An Act to Regulate the Practice of SE in the
Philippines,” R.A. 1364 defined the scope of the SE practice and the creation of a Board of Examiners,
under the then Civil Service Commission, which at that time was attached to the Office of the
President.

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