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.