Construction

By Daryl Rose Virtudazo  The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) board has approved the unsolicited proposal of Metro Pacific Group for the NLEx-SLEx Connector Road project under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. 

  By Weng C. Ocfemia Party list Rep. Juan R. Revilla has asked the House committees on public works and highways and good government and public accountability to investigate how a Spanish contractor allegedly involved in a number of rigged bids and anomalous transactions in Spain, the United States and Mexico was allowed to participate in the implementation of government …

More than 100 people were killed and nearly 400 others were injured when a crane fell onto Mecca’s Grand Mosque during a rainstorm on Sept. 11. 

  The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is determined to complete next year the P112-million circumferential road in the historic island town of Limasawa, Southern Leyte. 

After two years, the rehabilitation efforts of the government in areas devastated by Supertyphoon Yolanda in the Visayas region registered an accomplishment of only 30.3 percent while 33.1 percent are still on-going and will be ready for completion by 2016. 

Researchers at Tohoku University have found a way to make covered or hidden PC steel wires visible, by developing a new terahertz wave light source featuring both light and radio-wave characteristics. 

Three infrastructure projects on transportation, agribusiness financing, improvement of prison facilities and marine environment monitoring were approved by the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Board, headed by President Aquino, before Christmas. 

By Daryl Rose Virtudazo  Twenty former employees of the Manila Toll Expressway had a Merry Christmas after they were awarded P550,000 each or a total of P11-M as settlement of their awards for separation pay, attorney’s fees and full back wages. 

The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) government is set to file cases against 16 contractors that failed to complete the construction of school buildings four years after the contracts were signed. 

Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte and his running mate, Senate Majority leader Allan Peter Cayetano, will push for the completion of the Mindanao Railway System if they get elected in 2016.