DPWH, city gov’t at odds on BCC project; specs changed
>> Sunday, October 28, 2018
By Dexter
A. See
BAGUIO CITY – The
rehabilitation of the Baguio Convention Center in this summer capital is still
mired in controversy.
This, made Mayor
Mauricio G. Domogan urge technical personnel of the Cordillera office of the
Dept. of Public Works and Highways and local government to reconcile their
differences on the ongoing rehabilitation of the city-owned facility to avoid
delays in completion of the multi-million project so it could be used for
crowd-drawing events.
The mayor said it is
important is for the DPWH-CAR to come out with a technically acceptable reason
that will justify change of original plans of the project that resulted to the
removal of the mezzanine, escalators and elevator which was earlier aimed at
increasing the capacity of the convention facility.
“We do not want untoward
delays in the implementation of the project that is why we requested the
contractor to proceed with the works that are not the subject of controversy
while the DPWH-CAR and the local government’s TWG are ironing out their
differences on the questioned items that were removed from the original plans
that was earlier bid out,’ Domogan said.
He said that he will leave the matter of
resolving the prevailing issues on the BCC rehabilitation project to the
members of the technical teams of the DPWH-CAR and the local government because
they are the ones who are aware of the technical aspect of the project.
He added it is important
is for the project to be completed on time and pursuant to what had been
earlier agreed upon on how the facility will look like apart from considering
the variations that were done so as not to compromise the structural integrity
of the facility.
DPWH-CAR personnel
defended the change of project specifications
because the local government was not able to present the original plans
of the convention center when it was built in the late 1970s that should have
supposed to serve as their basis in determining the safe areas where the
foundation of the mezzanine, escalator and elevator could be erected.
However, the local
government TWG argued that the implementation of the variation of the original
plans of the project was not done in consultation with them considering that
the city will eventually be the end user of the facility, thus, the need for
the DPWH-CAR to go back to the original plans for the project that will
incorporate the mezzanine, escalator and elevator for a bigger capacity of the
convention center.
The rehabilitation of
the city-owned convention facility started in March 2018 and will commence
sometime in February 2019 pursuant to the approved plans and specifications of
the multi-million project.
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