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BONG GO FILES BILL AMENDING NAT’L BUILDING CODE

In an effort to promote resilience to natural disasters and man-made calamities, Senator Bong Go expressed the need to provide more effective regulation of planning, design, construction, occupancy, and maintenance of all public and private buildings and structures in the country as he pushed for his proposed Philippine Building Act of 2022. In an interview […]

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Government

DPWH CONVENES NAT’L BUILDING CODE WORKSHOP

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) recently met with the country’s building officials in a seminar-workshop aimed at refreshing and updating professionals’ knowledge on the National Building Code of the Philippines (NBCP). Experts in NBCP administration and implementation attended the event organized by the DPWH – National Building Code Development Office (NBCDO) in […]

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Politics

DISASTER-PROOF BUILDINGS AFTER ‘ODETTE’ URGED

A party-list lawmaker said updating the National Building Code deserves urgent legislative action to ensure that structures across the country are disaster-resilient. Bagong Henerasyon Party-list Representative Bernadette Herrera said disaster adaptation and mitigation are the only viable solutions to the country’s predicament as being disaster-prone. Herrera said homes and communities designed to withstand typhoons, floods, […]

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AMEND THE NATIONAL BUILDING CODE – GO

Senator Bong Go distributed grocery packs and financial aid in towns hardest hit by the subsequent magnitude 6.6 and magnitude 6.5 earthquakes that rocked North Cotabato and other parts of Mindanao on October 29 and 31, respectively. An earlier strong quake with a magnitude of 6.3 first hit the same areas last October 16. Straight […]