District
Engineer Virgilio Eduarte (left) giving instructions during the
Samar First Regular staff meeting. |
DPWH SFDEO’s school
building projects on progress
By DONNA C. DEBUTON
July 23, 2015
CALBAYOG CITY – Samar
First District Engineering Office headed by District Engineer Virgilio
C. Eduarte gives priority to school building programs for senior high
school CY 2015. During the conference held, DE Eduarte instructs all
assigned programming engineers to conduct site inspection on the
different school sites. The three-storey buildings require soil
exploration which should be conducted as early as possible. In
addition to DE Eduarte’s instructions, reports should be submitted to
the DPWH Central Office for the release of fund estimating P150,000.00
for six (6) classrooms per school building site.
Including in the list order
of the Basic Educational Facilities Fund is the first batch of school
building projects for CY 2015. With the total number of 23 school
buildings in Region VIII wherein 14 senior high school buildings
coming from the Division of Calbayog, and 9 senior high school
buildings coming from the Division of Samar. The total appropriation
reaches to P121,405,895.06 for Calbayog Division and P79,565,979.59
for Samar Division.
According to one of the
Project Engineers of the said program, the school sites need
embankment, and soil exploration first in accordance to DE’s
instruction for a better foundation to produce high quality school
buildings which are typhoon resilient.
