Construction

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) continues to provide technical assistance to local governments, this time to provincial governments on local road management (LRM) in the implementation of Konkreto at Ayos na Lansangan, ang Daan tungo sa Pangkalahatang Kaunlaran (Kalsada). 

A lawmaker has filed a bill that seeks to impose stiffer penalties to reduce, if not eliminate, the theft or illegal possession of manhole covers and road signs to safeguard Filipino drivers and pedestrians.

The World Bank (WB) review mission and the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) infrastructure specialists recently met in Davao City with contractors involved in projects to assess its implementation and identify problem areas that require attention. 

The Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI), on an annual basis in the National Capital Region, moved up by 0.8 percent in March, but it declined by 0.4 percent in February, while it increased by 0.1 percent in the same month last year, it was learned recently. 

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said funding for proposed projects under the FY 2017 Bottom-up Budgeting (BuB) Program will total P35 billion, up by P10.3 billion from this year’s BuB budget. 

The inaugural Global Infrastructure Forum 2016, held recently in Washington, D.C., brings together for the first time the leaders of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) —the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank Group, Islamic Development Bank, New Development Bank, and the World Bank Group—as …

The Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR) National Project Coordinating Office (NPCO) recently turned over nine of the 58 subprojects funded by the second Agrarian Reform Community Project (ARCP) to Barangays Matacong, San Ramon and San Isidro in San Lorenzo Ruiz; San Felipe in Basud; and Malancao-Basud in Labo, all in Camarines Norte. 

President Aquino inaugurated last Monday the Baybay diversion road project, which aims to minimize traffic congestion in the city proper and reduce the travel time from Maasin City to the cities of Tacloban and Ormoc, Leyte. 

A team from the World Bank (WB) recently visited select subprojects in Regions 1, 2, 3, and Cordillera under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP). 

To meet investment targets for public infrastructure, the Infrastructure Committee of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) approved the reinstitution of a three-year rolling infrastructure program in the national budget process, starting in 2017.