DPWH western Leyte office to finish 78 school buildings in July

ORMOC CITY, Leyte, March 22 (PNA) -– More than 90 percent of the 78 school buildings built by the Department of Public Works and Highways 4th Leyte Engineering District (DPWH-4th LED) for 2014 and 2015 in northwest Leyte have been completed as of Feb. 29 this year.

Some 76 school buildings are expected to be finished in time for the school opening in June while two other four-storey structures built at New Ormoc National High School will be completed in July.

In April, 4th LED will bid out five school buildings and will award the construction after the May elections.

These are a PHP3-million building at Airport Primary School in Ormoc as well as four structures (three units 3-storeys, one unit two-storeys) worth PHP70 million at Palompon National High School in Palompon town.(PNA)
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