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The Public-Private Partnership Center (PPPC) will continue to advocate the enactment of the PPP Act to amend the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law and sustain the momentum of the country’s PPP program after the Aquino administration ends.

Vice presidential candidate Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. vowed to pursue urban land reform program and improve its implementation to achieve its original intent of improving the lot of the urban poor.

Environment officials in the Central Visayas are calling on local chief executives to use geohazard maps for disaster management, as it announced the completion of the release of those maps for all local government units.

Engineer Ernesto S. De Castro was elected national president of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers Inc. (Pice) in a during an executive session of the newly elected National Board of Directors that was held recently at the Bacolod SMX Convention Center, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental province.

The Philippines recently took part in the global launching of the International Infrastructure Support System (IISS), a project preparation platform developed by the Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation (SIF) in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank. 

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).