Construction

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.

The approval of the $600 million loan by the Asian Development Bank to the Philippines will boost its effort to tap more private participation for urgently needed infrastructure investment.

Current flood models do not account for cities’ impact on local rainfall patterns, an oversight that could lead to significantly underestimating the severity and frequency of floods in urban areas, a study conducted at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana showed.

Additional new units of high performance construction machinery can now be utilized by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 8 to supplement its existing heavy equipment for clearing operations.

The year-on-year growth of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) continued to drop as it shrunk 0.8 percent in October of this year.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) concluded recently the Roadmap Study for Sustainable Urban Development in Metro Cebu while also citing solid growth of 5.8 percent in gross domestic product (GDP) and one million new jobs to be created by 2050 once the roadmap is fully implemented.