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Engineers from Lancaster University are working on smart materials such as ‘piezolectric’ ceramics that when embedded in road surfaces would be able to harvest and convert vehicle vibration into electrical energy.

The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) has approved the Quezon City Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) for 2011 to 2025.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), has proposed the creation of national green financing vehicles to catalyze environmentally and financially sustainable infrastructure investments in Asia and the Pacific. 

The House committee on natural resources approved House Bill 4208 which seeks to authorize the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to cut, ball, transfer, dispose or plant trees when implementing national or local infrastructure projects such as, but not limited to, clearing of road right-of-way and site clearing, development or preparation.

The Davao City Investment and Promotion Center (DCIPC) has granted incentive package to three big projects worth P12 billion. 

The Department of Public Works and Highways promised to complete the 5 kilometers missing gap at Zambales Section of the 81 kilometers Capas (Tarlac Province) -Botolan (Zambales Province) Road this November. 

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) signed an Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) that will allow ADB to access and administer GCF funds and scale up the bank’s climate financing to its developing member countries.

To stimulate economic development in the whole country, Senator Richard J. Gordon yesterday pointed to the need for a master plan that would maximize the potential of infrastructures in the country. 

Pag-IBIG Fund reported that it released P28.8 billion worth of housing loans in the first half of 2017, a 17-percent growth or more than P4 billion higher than the loans released during the same period in 2016. 

Transportation stakeholders in the public land and water transport industry unveiled a lengthy laundry list of impediments to ease of doing business, presented during an initial public consultation on modernizing government regulations.