Philippines: District engineering office ensures typhoon resilient school buildings for senior high

Catbalogan City, Samar - The Samar First District Engineering Office is making sure that soon to be constructed school buildings for Senior High Schools will be typhoon resilient.

In a statement by Nette Gomez of the DPWH Samar 1, she said that this was brought out during their regular meeting.

Project Engineers of school buildings recommended that the school sites need embankment, and soil exploration first for a better foundation to produce high quality school buildings which are typhoon resilient.

District Engineer Virgilio Eduarte said that he gives priority to school building programs for senior high school this 2015.

He instructed all assigned programming engineers to conduct site inspection on the different school sites.

There will be some 23 school buildings in Region VIII where 14 senior high school buildings will come from the Division of Calbayog, and an addition of nine senior high school buildings for the Division of Samar. The total appropriation is P 121,405,895.06 M for Calbayog and some P79, 565,979.59 M for Samar Division. (ajc/nbq/PIA 8-Samar with Donna Debuton-DPWH/Samar 1)