SM Super City, Pasay 360 Detailed Master Plan, Manila
Smart city systems lead for a 396-hectare, 10.85M sqm mixed-use development across three reclaimed islands in Manila Bay.
SM Super City is an integrated master-planned community across three reclaimed islands in Manila Bay, within the City of Pasay. The 396-hectare mixed-use development has a total built-up area of 10.85 million square metres. Terence led its smart city systems design. That covered Communications and Connectivity (Fiber, WiFi and LPWAN), Smart Transport and Mobility Systems, and Smart Waste Management. It also covered Smart Energy Management and Smart Water Management. The work included Security by Design: threat identification, security risk assessment, site assessment and mitigation strategies. This built resilience and safety into the master plan from first principles.
SM Super City needed smart city systems designed across three separate reclaimed islands, with a combined built-up area of 10.85 million square metres. At that scale, it needed a joined-up infrastructure strategy and a coherent security framework from the earliest master planning stage. The task was to specify connected, resilient systems for communications, transport, utilities and security. They had to serve a mixed-use district that did not yet exist. Every design choice also had to stay workable, in operation and commercially, as the development was built out in phases.
Led smart city systems design across five integrated domains. Communications and Connectivity covered the Fiber backbone, WiFi, and LPWAN for IoT sensor networks. Smart Transport and Mobility Systems covered travel between and within the islands. Smart Waste Management used IoT to monitor collection and processing. Smart Energy Management joined up monitoring and distribution across the three islands. The fifth domain was Smart Water Management. In parallel, led Security by Design. That meant identifying potential threats in the reclaimed island setting, assessing security risk and assessing the site. It also meant setting mitigation strategies that build physical and cyber resilience into the master plan architecture from first principles.
The smart city systems framework and Security by Design strategy were delivered as part of the SM Super City 360 Detailed Master Plan. They cover all five smart city domains, and the full security risk and mitigation framework across the 396-hectare three-island development. They set the technical starting point for a community designed from the ground up for integrated, resilient, connected operations. It is one of the largest reclamation developments in the Philippines.
- My role
- Led smart city systems design across five domains, Meinhardt Group
Designing smart city systems across three reclaimed islands is the same integration problem as running operations across several sites. The questions are what each island needs to know about the others, how the shared infrastructure is governed, and what happens when a connection fails. The answer is always the same. Design the integration architecture first, before the infrastructure is committed. Choices made at the master planning stage decide what is possible in operation for the next fifty years.
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Land reclaimed from Manila Bay doesn't come with an existing security history. So Security by Design forced an early, sometimes tense conversation about threats that hadn't happened yet, on ground that hadn't fully existed yet. I pushed to run the security risk assessment alongside the smart city design instead of after it. That slowed the front end, but it meant nothing needed unpicking later. Fifty years from now, that sequencing is what residents will never think about, because it worked.

