The House Committee on Public Works and Highways underscored the need for a new Philippine Building Act to ensure the safety of public and private infrastructures from devastations brought by natural calamities, such as typhoons and earthquakes.
The House Committee on Public Works and Highways, chaired by Surigao del Sur 1st District Rep. Romeo Momo, on Monday, Feb. 20, underscored the need for a new Philippine Building Act to ensure the safety of public and private infrastructures from devastations brought by natural calamities, such as typhoons and earthquakes.Citing the 7.
“One of these measures is to improve and strengthen our policies and rules to enhance the safety and integrity of our buildings, both public and private, and both existing and those still to be built. We, therefore, find it imperative for Congress to pass a new Philippine Building Act,” he added. “It is our respectful appeal to all our colleagues in this House of the people – nasa mga kamay natin ngayon, ang kaligtasan ng ating mga kababayan laban sa mapaminsalang mga sakuna – that we immediately and urgently approve this vital measure to make the buildings in the Philippines much safer for our fellow Filipinos and more resistant to natural hazards, for the benefit of the present and future generations,” he told his colleagues.
HB 3442, or the “Philippine Building Act of 2022” by Momo seeks to establish a classification system for buildings, requirements for each type of construction, occupancy, location and zoning, hazard zones and special sites, and design.
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