Imperial Homes as World Bank’s IFC EDGE Champion for Sustainability and Resiliency

With the global recognition for sustainability, President and CEO of Imperial Homes Group of Companies Emma Imperial seeks to influence more builders to go green

IMPERIAL HOMES started out as a dream 36 years ago to offer Filipinos the opportunity to own their homes through mass housing projects. Then, as Imperial Homes Group of Companies President and CEO Emma Imperial travelled to Europe to look for inspiration, she saw that these cold countries were already shifting to solar energy and sustainable building technology. “I asked myself how can I not do that in my own country with abundant sunlight but highly prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tropical cyclones and floods?”