Construction

The Department of Public Works and Highways will need more qualified and well equipped contractors to implement public infrastructure projects in 2016 following the increase in DPWH’s infrastructure budget by 30 percent. 

By Daryl Rose Virtudazo Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) General Manager Juan Sta. Ana is resigning from his post effective end of this month.

Malacanang has ordered all national and government agencies to submit an inventory of all idle lands in their locality that can be used for socialized housing projects. 

Sen. JV Ejercito is lauding the P93-billion Official Development Assistance (ODA) given by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to construct the north segment of the North – South Railway Project (NSRP) as a good holiday present to the Philipine National Railway and to the public. 

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) signed a loan agreement with Indonesia in the amount of Y77.137- billion to help mitigate traffic congestion through the construction of mass rapid transit system. 

By Daryl Rose Virtudazo  Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil of the Second District of Pangasinan province has asked the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Communications to find out why the Philippine National Railways (PNR) ceased operations in North Luzon and to determine the possibility of its rehabilitation and the eventual resumption of services in the area. Bataoil made the call …

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), in partnership with the Office of Sen. Loren Legarda, announced the selection of the curatorial proposal titled, “Muhon: Place Markers In The Search For Emerging Identity” by architect Edgardo Ledesma Jr. of the Leandro V. Locsin Partners firm as the country’s representative to the …

To help address the challenge of providing low-cost and disaster-resilient shelters, Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) forged a partnership with Build Change, a non-governmental, and non-profit organization that provides technical assistance and trains homeowners, contractors, and government officials to build disaster-resistant buildings and houses. 

Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, (UPV) have designed a new seismic isolator that improves the way buildings respond to earthquakes. The key to the Sisbrick, as the invention is known, lies in the way different materials have been combined to achieve two main effects: it is able to absorb horizontal seismic movements, while also supporting vertical loads (for …

The technology used by Filipino contractors in lifting the whole bridge as part of an effort to reha­bilitate the multimillion-peso historic Ayala Bridge in San Miguel, Manila only proved that a gigantic project such as this can be achieved at a frac­tion of a cost.