Many residential developments these days like to tout their ecologically-friendly, or ‘green features’ as helping combat climate change, complete with certificates from international certifying bodies to boot.
But Filinvest One Oasis Cagayan de Oro would rather focus on eco-friendly features that actually benefit home owners (and not merely serve as marketing attractions for developers) and even the community around them.
Materials Recovery Facility of One Oasis Bali Bldg 1
Take its Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), for instance. Republic Act # 9003 (Ecological Waste Management Act of 2000) defines MRF as a facility designed to efficiently sort and store recyclable materials (paper, tins, glass, plastic and the like) in an environmentally sound manner. The Environment Management Bureau (EMB) aims to set up one in every community in response to the mounting solid waste problem in the country.
As a community by itself, One Oasis Cagayan de Oro’s MRF is a low cost, do-able approach which is not merely environmentally friendly, but makes good business sense. It segregates waste materials for disposal and those which are re-usable for resale or recycling, encouraging home owners to participate in keeping their community clean and sanitary.
Its MRF receives biodegradable waste for composting and mixed non-biodegradable wastes for final segregation, re-use and recycling, with each type of mixed waste collected from the source and transported to the MRF in separate containers.
Trash bin which segragates garbage into biodegradable, non-biodegradable and recyclable materials
This sorting strategy has proven to be effective in most communities that have established MRFs, as they have maintained a clean environment, as well as initiating business opportunities for buying and selling re-usable and recyclable materials. Not only is the mounting problem of uncollected garbage addressed, other related issues such as the unpleasant odors which have plagued a number of subdivisions in the city, are also eliminated.
Additional eco-friendly features of One Oasis Cagayan de Oro include its sewage treatment plant (STP) and underground detention pond. The STP processes waste water and other effluents into safe, odor-free gray water.
One Oasis’ design for a drainage system which collects rain water in a detention pond serves as a flood-control measure when rainfall is heavy.When an area like the One Oasis CDO community is paved, or covered with buildings, water runs off the property much faster than when it is in its natural state. The total amount of discharge is the same, but the discharge happens over a shorter amount of time as the detention pond temporarily detains the water and keeps the runoff to the desired rate. When the rain ends, water stored at the detention pond will be emptied shortly afterwards to another outlet leading to the river or sea, or stored underground for re-use and recycling. More importantly, impounded water can be recycled for non-potable use such as irrigating the community’s green areas.
The whole One Oasis Cagayan de Oro complex which will eventually house some 1,300 units in five condominium buildings shall benefit from these features.
Each condominium building in One Oasis CDO will have seven to eight floors of residential units and a roof deck cum laundry area, two elevators for the residential floors and strategically located stairways, connecting all levels.
Each 2 bedroom and 1 bedroom residential unit comes with a balcony and laundry cage for drying. Parking slots for residents are available for sale on a first come, first served basis.
For more details, please visit Filinvest office at the ground floor, Bo’s Café Bldg., Don A. Velez St., 9000 Cagayan de Oro City or contact 0917-305-8888 or check its official page at facebook.com/oneoasis.
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