Construction

The first completed housing project done through the People’s Plan, an alternative shelter planning project, gave 104 informal-settler families permanent housing in Sitio Pasacola, Barangay Nagkaisang Nayon, Novaliches, and Quezon City.

The alternative road designed to reduce the risk of passing the dangerous “saddle road” in Pintuyan town will be passable in seven months with the implementation of P48 million road realignment concreting project, the Department of Public Works and Highways-Southern Leyte District Engineering Office (DPWH-SLDEO) announced recently.

A total of P737.94 million has been released for the rehabilitation of an additional 621 key government facilities in Yolanda-affected areas in Regions IV-B, V, VII and VIII, according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). 

A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame is examining whether concrete from deteriorating infrastructure can be recycled for use as material in new buildings and bridges. 

Six towns in the province of Eastern Samar — whose classrooms had been destroyed by super typhoon Yolanda—received financial aid of $20-M from the Asian Development Bank through the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR). 

Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has sought the abolition of the graft-ridden Road Board and transfers its powers and functions instead to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC). 

By Weng C. Ocfemia The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Act, according to Sen. Ralph G. Recto, will protect the interest of the government by putting safeguards in contracts so that the government is not shortchange and will not be left holding the bag alone in problematic joint ventures. 

By Daryl Rose Virtudazo Five groups have expressed interest in the P 171 billion North-South Railway Project (South Line) of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) under the government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program. 

Based on the preliminary results of the 2013 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI) conducted nationwide which was released Wednesday, there were 1,113 construction establishments with total employment (TE) of 20 and over in the formal sector of the economy. 

The Asia-Pacific Project Preparation Facility (AP3F), a multi-donor trust fund managed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help developing Asia and the Pacific prepare, structure, and place bankable public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the market, launched its operations last week.