Construction

Global private infrastructure investments in 2015 mostly remained steady at $111.6 billion when compared with that of the previous year, new data from the World Bank Group’s Private Participation in Infrastructure Database revealed recently. 

The Multi-Year Obligational Authority (MYOA) for the construction of the proposed National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) central office building from 2017 to 2020 has been issued, according to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). 

In the light of the recent Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Ise-Shima, Japan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) reaffirms stronger development cooperation initiatives in the Philippines. 

The Mindanao River Basin Management Council (MRBMC) Core Group has called on joint planning and collaborative efforts to solve problems of interconnectivity of priority projects. 

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has partnered with the United States Agency for International Development’s (Usaid) Water Security for Resilient Economic Growth and Stability (Be Secure) project to come up with a website that will turn the DPWH’s current stream-flow data sets into digitized ones for use in incorporating measures for flood mitigation and management. 

To minimize flash floods this rainy season, the Quezon City government has intensified the declogging of the city’s waterways, especially rivers, creeks and big canals. 

New public schools will be built in various provinces in Regions 9, 10, 11 and 12 to accommodate students from indigenous peoples’ (IP) communities. 

The good thing about La Niña is that there is more than enough water, but the public should make sure that their infrastructures are flood-resilient. 

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has launched the first Fabrication Laboratory (Fablab) co-working space in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur. 

A total of 219,478 households or 1,318,868 people are now benefitting from 396 potable water projects in waterless municipalities that have been completed for the first four months of 2016 through the Sagana at Ligtas ng Tubig sa Lahat (Salintubig) Program, according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).