Photo credit: Department of public works and highways Civil works have finally commenced for the much-awaited iconic bridge project that will connect the Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCoS) and Davao City in Southern Mindanao. President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., together with Vice President Sara Z. Duterte, People’s Republic of China Ambassad...

President Ferdinand R. Marcos inspects the rehabilitated Ormoc Airport after gracing the city’s 75th Charter Day anniversary in Leyte on Thursday (Oct. 20, 2022). Marcos expressed optimism that the development of the airport will bring more progress not only to the city but also the Eastern Visayas. (Photo from the Office of the President's official Faceb...

Photo credit: Department of Transportation  Full-scale construction of the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) project is set to begin by February next year, an official of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said Monday. In a Laging Handa briefing, DOTr Undersecretary Timothy John Batan said the NSCR is the country’s largest railway project to ...

Photo credit: Department of Public Works and Highways The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) now undertakes the conduct of land survey and geotechnical investigation using boring machine with the government finally proceeding with the detailed engineering design activities for the civil works construction of long-awaited Samal Island – Dava...

Photo credit: Department of Public Works and Highways Major Japanese expressway players visited the Davao City Bypass Road Construction Project in southern Philippines in line with the cooperation program between the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) to share the we...

Photo credit: Department of Public Works and Highways The Philippines’ Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has fostered greater collaboration with Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) for tunnel engineering and road infrastructure development. A Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) was formally signed Tuesday,...

Photo credit:  Construction activities continued to rise in the first quarter of the year but at a slower pace, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Thursday. The number of approved building permits from January to March increased by 1.8 percent to 37,270 from 36,621 approved construction permits in the same period last year. These ...

Photo credit: Philippine News Agency President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday said his administration is eyeing to pursue “grander” and “more ambitious” infrastructure projects to create jobs, improve connectivity, and provide convenience to Filipino commuters. Marcos made this remark during the groundbreaking rites for the construction o...

Photo: President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (2nd from left) and Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista (2nd from right) lead the groundbreaking of the Ortigas and Shaw Boulevard stations of the Metro Manila Subway Project on Monday (Oct. 3, 2022). During the event, Bautista said the project is expected to create over 18,000 jobs during its construct...

Premier contractor D.M. Consunji, Inc. (DMCI) is set to build its first subway project after its joint venture with Nishimatsu Construction Co., Ltd.(NCC) of Japan received the Notice of Award for the Quezon Avenue and East Avenue underground stations and tunnels for the Metro Manila Subway Project (Contract Package 102). “We are very excited to be par...

Photo: The Tacloban causeway project. (DPWH photo) The causeway project that will connect the city hall to the airport here will start before the end of the year with an initial PHP1 billion funding. The first phase of the project is currently advertised, and bidding will go in early October. Civil works will begin within the fourth quarter of th...

Photo credit: Where in Bacolod The construction of another airport in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental is underway soon with additional national government funding to complete the more than PHP1-billion project. Sixth District Provincial Board Member Jeffrey Tubola, a former city councilor, said on Tuesday the Department of Transportation (DOTr) h...

Photo: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. graces the grand opening of the new terminal building of Clark International Airport in Mabalacat, Pampanga, Sept. 28, 2022. (Photo courtesy of President Marcos Jr./Facebook) The Clark International Airport’s (CRK) new passenger terminal building is a “strong signal” to the world that the Philippines is open for...

Artist rendering of the Metro Manila Subway (Photo courtesy of DOTr) The Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) has been named as one of the finalists at the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure for the best use of infrastructure software to save both time and money. The Department of Transportation (DOTr) said the general consultant for the MMSP...

Photo: Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge project (Courtesy of DPWH) The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is finalizing the detailed engineering design works for the Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge that will connect the provinces by the first quarter of 2023. Senior Undersecretary Emil Sadain said in a news release on Saturday that the mari...

The Parañaque City government on Monday announced a partial closure of a portion of Imelda Bridge along Ninoy Aquino Avenue’s northbound side due to construction works in the Light Rail Transit-1 (LRT-1) Cavite Extension Project. The advisory of the city’s Traffic and Parking Management Office said the closure will be from 10 p.m. on September 20 to 5 ...